The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes has passed 15,800. Reporting from Kahramanmaras as rescue operations continue for a fourth day, Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar said, “I am in front of the rubble of a collapsed building. Unfortunately, no one came out alive last night.” “You can see some of those bodies that are pulled out are completely burned,” Serdar said, adding that it was not clear what caused the blaze. Serdar said there were at least 60 people inside the hotel building when the first earthquake hit and most of them were still stuck under the rubble. People from around…
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LeBron James eclipsed fellow Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s career by 38,387 points Tuesday night in front of an enthusiastic home crowd, more points than any other NBA player in history. It is the first time a new name has topped his NBA all-time rankings since April 5, 1984, when Abdul-Jabbar surpassed Wilt’s Chamberlain’s 31,419 points. About nine months after Abdul-Jabbar his Chamberlain stole the record, LeBron James was born. Abdul-Jabbar continued to score points using the Sky-Hook until his retirement in 1989 at the age of 42. The 38-year-old James set his career record by scoring his 36th point…
“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” first reactions set social media abuzz following its Los Angeles premiere, but Marvel’s first Phase 5 installment saw many critics underwhelmed by the story… and delighted to greet Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily return as Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man, and Hope van Dyne, aka the Wasp, with a new mission to further explore the Quantum Realm. Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer reprise their respective roles as the van Dyne scientists and original Ant-Man and the Wasp, while Kathryn Newton (“Freaky”) makes her Marvel debut as the older version of…
Google is launching an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered chatbot called Bard to rival ChatGPT. The Bard will be used by a group of testers before going public in the coming weeks, the company said. Bard is built on Google’s existing large-scale language model, Lambda. In response, Lamda said that one engineer was very human-like and believed to be sentient. The tech giant also unveiled new AI tools for modern search engines. AI chatbots are designed to answer questions and find information. ChatGPT is the best-known example. They use what’s on the internet as an enormous database of knowledge although there…
Scientists have discovered a new layer of partially melted rock under the crust. This could help end the longstanding debate about how tectonic plates move. Researchers had previously identified melt spots at similar depths. However, new research led by the University of Texas at Austin reveals for the first time the global extent of this layer and its role in plate tectonics. Located approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the surface, the molten layer is part of the asthenosphere beneath the Earth’s tectonic plates in the Earth’s upper mantle. The asthenosphere is important for plate tectonics because it forms a…
This news of job cuts at Dell adds to the growing list of technology companies that have been forced to make similar decisions due to the economic impact of the pandemic. Dell has announced its plan to lay off approximately 6,650 employees due to the decline in the demand for personal computers. The job cuts are expected to affect roughly 5 percent of the company’s global workforce. According to a report by Bloomberg, Dell’s Co-Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Clarke claimed that the company is facing tough market conditions with an uncertain future. The layoffs can be attributed to the ongoing…
A powerful earthquake hit southern Turkey near the Syrian border early Monday, followed by aftershocks, and was felt in Syria and as far as Lebanon, Cyprus, Iraq and Egypt. At least 641 were reported dead and hundreds more injured from the quake, The Associated Press reported. Dozens of buildings collapsed in cities across the border region. The epicenter of the magnitude 7.8 quake was about 33 kilometers (20 miles) from Gaziantep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its center was 18 kilometers (11 miles) deep. Images shared on social media from southern Turkey and northeastern Syria show panicked families in…
Apple has been praised for its careful approach to hiring that saved the company from mass layoffs by top competitors such as Alphabet and Amazon. But even iPhone makers aren’t immune to economic headwinds. In today’s quarterly results, the company posted its first annual loss since before the pandemic. According to a press release related to the news, the company’s quarterly revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 (Apple’s first quarter) was $117.2 billion, down 5% year-over-year. bottom. Shares fell more than 3% in pre-market trading the morning after the news release. CEO Tim Cook tried to highlight the…
Snapchat’s Snapchat+ program has more than 2 million paying subscribers, the company said in its latest earnings report. Snap said the $3.99 monthly paid plan is part of its “diversification” of revenue streams. The social network first launched his Snapchat+ in June 2022 in countries such as the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. It has since expanded its subscription service to India, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands. Within 60 days of the launch of Snapchat+, Snap had his 1 million subscribers. As such, it took the…
Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta’ shares surged 23.3 per cent on Thursday. The surge came on the back of the company’s stricter cost controls this year and a $40 billion share buyback, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called 2023 the ‘year of efficiency’. The counter closed at $188.77 on Nasdaq up by 23.28 per cent. Meta revealed that the company is focused on improving its content recommendations powered by artificial intelligence and its ad targeting systems to keep users clicking which has fallen on hard times amid a broad post-pandemic decline in digital ads. The company will cut costs in…