At least nine reports are expected, covering everything from political decision-making to vaccines. Publishing the first of these, inquiry chair Baroness Hallett said the UK was “ill-prepared for dealing with a catastrophic emergency, let alone the coronavirus pandemic”. “Never again can a disease be allowed to lead to so many deaths and so much suffering,”…
Getty Images Iceland is one of the world’s most volcanically active places I’m in one of the world’s volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano’s crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away. Krafla has erupted around…
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the artificial intelligence startup three months after taking a leave from his role as president, he said in a post on X on Tuesday. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed Brockman’s return. Brockman has been working with CEO Sam Altman on creating a new role for him to focus on significant technical challenges, Bloomberg News said,…
It’s the holiday season and our feeds are currently stuffed with gorgeous filtered photos and fifteen second videos warmed with soft music – all with one clear and focused goal: to make us buy and follow, follow and buy. Keep your wits about you. It’s a tricky season in the best of years, but at…
Like me, you are probably feeling a bit depressed at the thought of your garden’s painstakingly planted scenes deteriorating over the next months (as they do every autumn). Yes, of course, you can plant some spring-blooming bulbs, but you will have to wait a good six months (and endure a lot of awful weather) to see them! Please, don’t despair just yet. There are bulbs that bloom in the fall. Asters,…
Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. “I am not what you would probably call a space nerd by any stretch,” she told NPR in 2023. But ever since childhood she’s been fascinated by the experience of astronauts. Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Henry Nicholls/AFP via…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Dewardric McNeal, Longview Global senior policy analyst, and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC contributor, join CNBC’s ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss expectations for Senator Marco Rubio as a potential Secretary of State, how a Trump administration would approach foreign policy, and more. Source link
TURIN – Top-ranked Jannik Sinner made it two wins in two matches before his home fans at the ATP Finals, beating Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday in a rematch of the U.S. Open final that the Italian also won in straight sets. As the crowd chanted “Ole, Ole, Ole; Sin-ner, Sin-ner,” the local favorite…
An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent. Transparency International UK found 135 “high-risk” contracts with at least three red flags – warning signs of a risk of corruption. Twenty-eight contracts worth £4.1bn…