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About 1,200 people evacuated from coastal wildfire in northern France

PARIS, Aug 12 - About 1,200 people were evacuated from a campsite due to two wildfires near the beach in the north of France, local officials said on Wednesday. The prefecture for the administrative department of Pas-de-Calais, in the country's north and bordering the Strait of Dover, said one of the wildfires was under control

XAI Grok 4.6 Is Near Frontier Capable But 85% Lower Cost

SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is roughly the same performance as Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. 80% cheaper for input tokens and 88% cheaper for output tokens. It is pareto dominant. Grok 4.7 will be significantly better as is a much larger model with the Cursor and SpaceX data included in pretraining. Grok 4.6 is

Done Deal: Romero ready for Parma in €7m agreement with Tigre

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - FEBRUARY 07: David Romero of Tigre celebrates after scoring his team's second goal during a Torneo Apertura Mercado Libre 2026 match between River Plate and Tigre at Estadio Más Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti on February 07, 2026 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Marcelo Endelli/Getty Images) Tigre striker David Romero is

China launches new commercial communications satellite to orbit

HomeNewsSpaceflightA Long March 2C rocket lifts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Jan. 12, 2023 carrying the APStar 6E satellite to orbit. (Image...

Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Satellite for two-way messaging for smartphones

January 5, 2023 1:10 PM The Iridium constellation.Image Credit: Iridium Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Qualcomm introduced its Snapdragon Satellite iplatform to support premium smartphones with two-way satellite messaging. Qualcomm and Iridium entered into an agreement to bring satellite-based connectivity to next-generation premium Android smartphones; Garmin looks forward

WhatsApp Launches a Proxy Tool to Fight Internet Censorship

When repressive governments want to control their populations, citizens’ access to the internet is often one of the first things to go. Since 2016, 74 countries around the world have shut down the internet for tens of millions of people more than 900 times. In recent years, Iran shut down the internet to hide brutality against protesters.

U.S. Soccer launches investigation into Gregg Berhalter, who admitted to 1991 altercation with future wife

Gregg Berhalter’s future as U.S. men’s national team remains uncertain after the recent expiration of his contract, but now the American coach has become...

India launches incentive scheme to boost digital health record adoption

India's National Health Authority is providing incentives to healthcare providers and other stakeholders of the country's digital health ecosystem who are promoting the creation of digital health records.  Up to Rs 40 million (nearly $500,000) will be made available to 10 or more-bed health facilities, diagnostic centres, and providers of digital solutions, such as HMIS

Acer launches Nitro and Swift gaming laptops with AMD Ryzen 7000 processors

January 4, 2023 7:30 PM Acer Nitro 17 laptop uses AMD Ryzen 7000 Series processors.Image Credit: Acer Acer today announced the new Nitro 16 and Nitro 17 gaming laptops and the new Swift Go 14 laptop powered by AMD Ryzen 7000 Series processors. The latest Acer Nitro laptops, designed to provide casual gamers with a

TCL’s CES 2023 TV launches: QD-OLED TVs, plus even better mini-LED QLED

Home News Televisions (Image credit: TCL) A full range of new TCL TVs can be seen at CES 2023, with the offerings topped by the company’s Q series models. These range in size from 50 inches up to a gargantuan 98 inches, and are loaded with features such as quantum dots and mini-LED backlights, with

Shiftall launches a high end SteamVR headset and an affordable body tracker for VTubers

Shiftall is a Panasonic company dedicated to building equipment to plunge people deeper into their virtual worlds. That includes the Mutalk (pictured), a mouth-worn Bluetooth microphone designed to prevent your speech from being heard by people in the same room. Here at CES, however, the company has unveiled two new versions of its VR headset

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About 1,200 people evacuated from coastal wildfire in northern France

PARIS, Aug 12 - About 1,200 people were evacuated from a campsite due to two wildfires near the beach in the north of France, local officials said on Wednesday. The prefecture for the administrative department of Pas-de-Calais, in the country's north and bordering the Strait of Dover, said one of the wildfires was under control

XAI Grok 4.6 Is Near Frontier Capable But 85% Lower Cost

SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is roughly the same performance as Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. 80% cheaper for input tokens and 88% cheaper for output tokens. It is pareto dominant. Grok 4.7 will be significantly better as is a much larger model with the Cursor and SpaceX data included in pretraining. Grok 4.6 is

Done Deal: Romero ready for Parma in €7m agreement with Tigre

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - FEBRUARY 07: David Romero of Tigre celebrates after scoring his team's second goal during a Torneo Apertura Mercado Libre 2026 match between River Plate and Tigre at Estadio Más Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti on February 07, 2026 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Marcelo Endelli/Getty Images) Tigre striker David Romero is

Osun: Don’t turn election into war, Atiku tells FG

Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies and the Tinubu administration against militarising the Osun governorship election or deploying state institutions for partisan advantage. Speaking at the ADC National Youth Leadership Summit in Abuja, Atiku declared that “Osun is a test” of

Burnham’s devolution drive could ‘push 90,000 jobs out of London’

Wednesday 12 August 2026 5:16 pm Nearly 10,000 jobs are expected to leave the capital by 2031 Roughly 90,000 of London’s white-collar jobs could be pushed into other parts of the country as Andy Burnham accelerates his devolution drive, a top recruitment firm has predicted. Legal, banking and accounting firms could be among those to