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Thanks largely to Nvidia, GPUs have nearly eclipsed CPUs as the technology driving advancement. When it comes to AI, particularly on the training side, GPUs reign supreme. Generally, GPUs make our games and most advanced photo and video editing tools work better as well — and with social media, many folks are becoming creation experts. But while AMD, Nvidia, and, most recently, Intel have played in this highly competitive space, all three have come to market lately with distinctive strategies, each with unique benefits, risks, and opportunities. As we recover from our Thanksgiving food comas here in the U.S., let’s…

A new study finds that honey, unlike other sweeteners, may actually be good for cardiometabolic health.The benefits of honey were revealed in studies of people who ate a heavy diet containing 10% or less sugar.The study suggests that honey — particularly raw, monofloral honey ‚ may be a healthier replacement for sugar already being consumed, rather than additional sweetener added to one’s daily intake.Consider replacing the sugar you consume with honey, says a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto.For people on a healthy diet in which no more than 10% of daily calories come from sugar, honey…

Brisbane, Australia CNN  —  Marion Barter won plaudits for her warmth as an elementary school teacher, but in 1997 the 51-year-old mother-of-two became restless, quit her job, sold her house, and flew from Australia’s beach-lined Gold Coast to start a new life in Europe. Her family never saw her again. If Barter had vanished without a trace, Australian police may have taken her case more seriously, but when her daughter, Sally Leydon, reported her missing, she wasn’t added to the missing persons list, and later a police officer told her Barter wanted no contact with her family. For Leydon, there were…

‘Active travel’ has no single definition. It could mean point to point hiking trips with luggage transferred between hotels, e-biking across Europe on the new EuroVelo paths or taking advantage of Hotel Sassongher’s new skyrunning in the Dolomites activity.The uniting factor is the global yearning for active escapes post pandemic.The seismic shift towards working from home means millions of people are more sedentary in their day to day lives. A survey by Statista shows that almost 30 per cent of people expect remote work to become their permanent reality, while further 36 per cent envision a hybrid work future.With this…

A horde of coins found in Transylvania in 1713 contained several unlike other Roman coins in style and make, with enigmatic features including bungled legends and historically mixed motifs. The four gold coins depicting the “Roman emperor” Sponsian were long regarded as forgeries and Sponsian himself a fake. However, in a breakthrough new study in the scientific journal PLOS One, researchers have concluded that the coin of Sponsian locked away for years in a museum cupboard in Glasgow is a genuine third-century artifact and that Sponsian was a real claimant to the title. The team examined the Sponsian coin as well as…

CNN  —  Rugby great Doddie Weir has died at age 52, according to a statement from the Weir family that was released through the Scottish Rugby Union. Weir died six years after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). “Doddie was an inspirational force of nature,” the Weir family wrote. “His unending energy and drive, and his strength of character powered him through his rugby and business careers and, we believe, enabled him to fight the effects of MND for so many years.” Weir was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder MND in 2016. He first noticed a problem when he…

CNN  —  The Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei has died suddenly at the age of 64, the country’s foreign ministry said Saturday. “Vladimir Makei, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, has suddenly passed away today,” the Foreign Ministry said in its official Facebook account, without providing more details about the circumstances surrounding the foreign minister’s death. The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday expressed his condolences to the family and friends of Makei, according to a statement published on the presidential website. Makei had been scheduled to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on…

Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image on Friday showcasing a pair of merging galaxies. The galaxy merger, known as Arp-Madore 417-391, is located 671 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, it is the result of two galaxies that were distorted by gravity and twisted together into a ring.Their cores were left nestled side by side.FOLLOWING ‘UNEXPECTED LOSS’ NASA SAYS ORION SPACECRAFT COMMUNICATIONS RESTORED The telescope used its Advanced Camera for Surveys to snap this scene and the ESA said that the instrument is optimized to hunt for galaxies and…

CNN  —  “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare had no idea that those same words would apply to one of today’s ongoing terminology rivalries stretching across the Atlantic – the debate of association football versus soccer. Or as the Men in Blazers podcast once put it, soccer is “America’s Sport of the Future. As it has been since 1972.” Nobody walked away with the bragging rights as the US Men’s National Team (USMNT) shared a goalless draw with England in their World Cup Group B match on Friday. Football, or soccer, has been around…

CNN  —  One of Ukraine’s largest state hospitals was “on the verge of evacuating” some patients after it lost water supply because of Russian air strikes on Wednesday, a regional official told CNN. Moscow has sent a barrage of missiles to target energy “generation facilities” in its latest effort to cripple Ukrainian infrastructure, resulting in a temporary loss of power to the national grid with knock on effects on the water supply. On Friday more than 6 million customers were still without power, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Kyiv Regional Clinical Hospital was about to move patients undergoing haemodyalisis…