All roads lead to Rome, as the saying goes, and the most prestigious is the Appian Way, the strategic highway for the Roman Empire now hoping to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A paved road of more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) begun in 312 BC by Roman statesman Appius Claudius Caecus, the “Via…
OpenAI, the creator of the language tool ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E, could be facing some new, three-dimensional competition on the blockchain. Polygon is working with Alethea AI to launch CharacterGPT, an artificial-intelligence-powered non-fungible token (NFT) project that describes itself as “the world’s first multimodal AI system.” In an introductory video, the brand says users…
The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the US a ‘C-‘ overall for its drinking water systems JACKSON, Miss. – Organizations in Jackson, Mississippi, are asking for help from other states as the water crisis dries up resources. It’s been over five months since the Pearl River crested and Jackson, Mississippi’s water system failed. Now, crews are working to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Twitter employees are expected to testify next week before the House Oversight Committee about the social media platform’s handling of reporting on President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The scheduled testimony, confirmed by the committee Monday, will be the first time the three former executives will appear before Congress to discuss…
SANTIAGO/BRASILIA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s bid this week to rally support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion during his first South American tour fell flat, with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reiterating his view both parties shared blame. Scholz has sought to project unity on Ukraine during…
In the latest effort to lift the falling birth rate in China, health authorities of the country’s southwestern province of Sichuan will now allow unmarried people to legally have children and enjoy benefits reserved for married couples, reported Reuters on Monday. The rule will now allow single individuals to raise a family if they want to…
TIBERIAS, Israel, Jan 30 (Reuters) – When the floodgates are open, a torrent of water gushes into a dry river bed and races to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a biblical lake in northern Israel that was being lost to drought and the growing population around it. The water is fresh, high-quality, expensive….
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck a crowded mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan on Monday, causing the roof to collapse and killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 150 others, officials said. Most of the casualties were police officers. It was not clear how the bomber was able to…
The CDC recently codified International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes for Covid-19 vaccine status. ICD codes are extensively used in medical records, medical insurance data and health research to classify precisely disease states as well as injuries from exogenous agents such as accidents, medication and medical device injuries, toxic chemicals, etc. Vaccination status is not…
María Branyas Morera, born in 1907, now in Guinness record books after death of Lucille Randon, 118, in French town of Toulon María Branyas Morera has lived through two world wars, the Spanish civil war, the 1918 flu pandemic and Covid. Now the California-born woman is the world’s oldest living person. Branyas, 115, became the…