Burkina Faso scraps visa fees for African travellers

Burkina Faso scraps visa fees for African travellers

Burkina Faso has introduced visa-free entry for all African travellers, in an effort to facilitate the movement of people and goods into the country. “From now on, any citizen from an African country wishing to go to Burkina Faso will not pay any amount to cover visa fees,” said Mahamadou Sana, the country’s security minister,…

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SK Hynix shares hit record with news of AI memory milestone

SK Hynix shares hit record with news of AI memory milestone

The Seoul-traded chipmaker, whose shares are up roughly 90% over the past year, is now worth close to US$170 billion [SEOUL] SK Hynix’s stock climbed as much as 5.9 per cent on Friday (Sep 12) to a record after the company announced it had completed development of HBM4, the next generation of high-bandwidth memory (HBM)…

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Mexico Beach walks to honor the lives lost on 9/11

Mexico Beach walks to honor the lives lost on 9/11

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Mexico Beach is honoring the lives lost on 9/11. Firefighters and community members participated in the annual 9/11 Never Forget ceremony this morning. They began walking around city hall at 7:46 a.m., the same time the first airliner hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. They continued walking…

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Will farming under solar panels take off?

Will farming under solar panels take off?

Harpal Dagar has been farming under solar panels for five years [Harpal Dagar] “As a farmer, you’re always at the mercy of weather,” says Harpal Dagar who has a farm on the outskirts of Delhi. “So many times, we lost our produce due to unpredictable conditions,” he says. But five years ago he was approached…

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Microsoft to put more computing power behind in-house AI models

Microsoft to put more computing power behind in-house AI models

The world’s largest software maker has mostly relied on large language models from the ChatGPT maker to power its products [NEW YORK] Microsoft plans to expand its physical infrastructure to train its own artificial intelligence (AI) models that it hopes will be competitive with OpenAI, Anthropic and other firms. The company will make “significant investments”…

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US: Major indexes notch fresh records on rate cut hopes

US: Major indexes notch fresh records on rate cut hopes

[NEW YORK] Wall Street’s major indexes hit fresh records on Thursday as US inflation and jobless claims data added to conviction that the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates next week. The Dow Jones Industrial average climbed 1.4 per cent to 46,108.00, while the S&P 500 Index rose 0.9 per cent to 6,587.47. The tech-focused…

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AOC Shreds Republicans for Trying to Spin Kirk’s Death

AOC Shreds Republicans for Trying to Spin Kirk’s Death

The president also announced disaster aid to Kansas, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. In each post, he was sure to note that the funds were going to states in which he’s had electoral successes in the past. In North Carolina, for example, he wrote, “I WON BIG all six times” (six, that is, because he included…

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MAGA Is Already Blaming Trans People for Charlie Kirk’s Death

MAGA Is Already Blaming Trans People for Charlie Kirk’s Death

The president also announced disaster aid to Kansas, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. In each post, he was sure to note that the funds were going to states in which he’s had electoral successes in the past. In North Carolina, for example, he wrote, “I WON BIG all six times” (six, that is, because he included…

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