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Xbox leader Asha Sharma has joined a US government task force for employment, days after announcing restructuring that has left thousands of people without jobs
Xbox chief Asha Sharma has been appointed as an external adviser to the US Federal Reserve, where she will help lead a task force on productivity and jobs — including assessing the impact of AI on the workforce. The appointment has drawn attention because it comes just days after Sharma oversaw a restructuring of Xbox…
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‘God Particle’ Physicist Fabiola Gianotti to Get Feature Biopic by ‘The Invisible Witness’ Director Stefano Mordini (EXCLUSIVE)
Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who helped lead one of the two experiments behind the discovery of the Higgs boson — the particle popularly nicknamed the “God particle” — is to be the subject of a feature biopic titled “The Mysterious Particle”. The film will be directed by Stefano Mordini, known for “The Invisible Witness”, and…
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‘AI accountability agenda’: US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech’s harms
Democratic US senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has unveiled a package of bills he calls an “AI accountability agenda”, aimed at curbing what he sees as the wide-ranging harms of unregulated artificial intelligence. The agenda targets energy- and water-intensive datacenters, intrusive workplace surveillance, biased algorithms, AI overriding human judgment and deepening economic inequality, framed as…
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Indigenous rebels, migrant bravery and joyful dance: New York’s Latin American Foto Festival – in pictures
The Guardian has published a photo gallery showcasing work featured at New York’s Latin American Foto Festival, hosted by the Bronx Documentary Center. The collection brings together documentary photographers from across Latin America, spotlighting Indigenous land movements, environmental struggles, migration and cultural traditions, and it matters as a platform amplifying regional stories of resilience, identity…
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US mother, 43, is bludgeoned to death in her Irish home ‘by asylum seeker partner, 28, she met at pro-Palestine march’ as suspect flees country
A US-born mother of one, Jamey Carney, 43, has been found bludgeoned to death at her rented home in Killarney, Ireland, with her partner — a 28-year-old asylum seeker she reportedly met at a pro-Palestine march — suspected of the killing and believed to have fled the country. According to the report, her body was…
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Sheffield United make ‘contact’ with Everton legend Seamus Coleman amid wait for key decision – Yorkshire Post
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Dahi Has Assembled A Stunning Cast For New Album ‘Black Boy (Alternative)’
The article reports that the producer and artist Dahi has lined up a notable roster of collaborators for a forthcoming album titled ‘Black Boy (Alternative)’. The headline frames the release as significant chiefly because of the calibre of the guest cast assembled for the project. Beyond the headline, the full article text could not be…
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France Reaches World Cup Semi-Finals as Violent Unrest Erupts in London
France secured a spot in the World Cup semi-finals with a decisive 2-0 quarter-final victory over Morocco in Boston. The result triggered violent unrest in London, where police forces clashed with football supporters dur
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“They had us swear on a stack of Bibles that no more flags would be burnt. I did it one more time”: Prog icon Keith Emerson and the world’s first instrumental protest song
This article recounts a 2011 interview — five years before his death — in which prog-rock keyboardist Keith Emerson explained why his 1960s band The Nice burned the American flag on stage and how it affected their career. The band’s confrontational 1968 reworking of Leonard Bernstein’s *America* is presented as what Emerson called the first…
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Baby Rose: Yearnalism review – gloriously cinematic soul from the edge of emotional collapse
The Guardian has published a review of *Yearnalism*, the third album by US soul singer Baby Rose (Jasmine Rose Wilson), released on Secretly Canadian. The reviewer praises the record as a “gloriously cinematic” work in which Rose deploys her “fraying contralto” to convey the highs and lows of relationships as though on the verge of…