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NextGenerationEU: Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility firmly underway

The report also shows that major headway has been made in terms of transparency and protection of the EU's financial interests The Commission has adopted its second annual report on the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the €800 billion reform and investment tool at the heart of NextGenerationEU. The report shows the…

A linguistic anthropologist explains how humans are like ChatGPT

The boundary between humans and machines, in terms of the way we interact with one another, is fuzzier than most people would care to admit ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while administrators urge us to “embrace the benefits” of this “new frontier.” It’s a classic…

Dubai’s diversity makes it an affordable luxury destination

Achieved record tourism figures this year, with 8.55 million international visitors from January to June 2023, and celebrates that its variety of offerings has made it an affordable luxury destination Dubai City achieved record tourism figures this year, with 8.55 million international visitors from January to June 2023, and celebrates that its variety of offerings…

Korea and Africa rally additional finance and technology for universal energy access and to make Africa world’s breadbasket

The Korea Trust Fund and the $600 million Korea-Africa Energy Investment Framework will support African countries in strengthening human capacity and developing their energy sectors The 7th Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) Ministerial Conference opened in Korea’s second-largest city, Busan, on Wednesday with a strong call for additional resources to help African countries achieve universal access…

Where is the global economy heading in 2024? This is what chief economists think

The global economy is likely to weaken in the coming year, according to 61% of respondents in the World Economic Forum’s latest Chief Economists Outlook If you’re looking for a one-word summary of what lies ahead for the world economy in the coming year, it could well be “volatility”. One of the biggest sources of…

Qatar Tourism Announces Olympic Champion Mutaz Barshim as Brand Ambassador

Barshim, who recently set a world record as the only high jump athlete to win five World Championship medals, will be the new face of Qatar Tourism’s campaigns from now to September 2024 Qatar Tourism is proud to announce Olympic and World champion, Mutaz Barshim, as its newest brand ambassador. Barshim, who recently set a…

Virtual-reality tech is fast becoming more real

Touch sensations are improving to help sectors like healthcare and manufacturing, while other advances are being driven by the gaming industry Imagine a single technology that could help a robot perform safety checks at a nuclear plant, cure a person’s arachnophobia and simulate the feeling of a hug from a distant relative. Welcome to the…

Seeking climate justice at the ‘world court’

How a Cambridge professor worked with law students from the South Pacific to help the climate-embattled nation of Vanuatu put the question of global warming to the International Court of Justice for the first time in history Just days after 105 countries backed Vanuatu’s historic bid to take climate change before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), this small…

E-cigarettes, Varenicline and Cytisine found to be the most effective stop-smoking aids

A comprehensive new analysis has found that nicotine e-cigarettes, varenicline and cytisine are the most effective options currently available for helping smokers quit long-term (going at least six months without smoking) This is closely followed by using two forms of nicotine replacement therapy at the same time, such as a nicotine patch alongside gum, lozenges,…

Helping computer vision and language models understand what they see

Researchers use synthetic data to improve a model’s ability to grasp conceptual information, which could enhance automatic captioning and question-answering systems Powerful machine-learning algorithms known as vision and language models, which learn to match text with images, have shown remarkable results when asked to generate captions or summarize videos. While these models excel at identifying…