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Ethiopia's Gobena, Kenya's Olympic champion Jepchirchir win Sydney Marathon
Share Ethiopia's Gobena, Kenya's Olympic champion Jepchirchir win Sydney Marathon on social media Ethiopia's Addisu Gobena and Kenyan world champion Peres Jepchirchir surged to commanding Sydney Marathon wins in the men's and women's races . It was the first victory in a World Marathon Major for 21-year-old Gobena, who came second last year, while Jepchirchir, in Australia on Sunday, added to her previous triumphs in Boston, New York and London. The dominant run shattered the course record by almost one and a half minutes, with last year's winner Hailemaryam Kiros dropping from the pace in the dying stages. "I am very happy," said Gobena, who was a javelin thrower before transitioning to long-distance running, gaining international attention by winning the 2024 Dubai Marathon. "Last year I came second, I learnt from my mistake and I went back home and I worked on my mistake to perform and break the record today." The unstoppable Jepchirchir was in a league of her own, crossing the finish line in front of the Sydney Opera House in 2:18:31, nearly four minutes ahead of fellow Kenyan Irine Cheptai and Ethiopia's Shure Demise Ware.
Can You Engineer Civic Pride? Dubai Thinks So
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U.S. strikes Iran in response to attack on cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz
U.S. strikes Iran in response to attack on cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz US President Donald Trump speaks during the Faith & Freedom Coalition event in Washington on Friday. Washington/Dubai - The U.S. military attacked Iran on Friday in response to an Iranian drone strike on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, further straining the fragile peace deal agreed last week between the two countries. U.S. Central Command said aircraft struck missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites. CNN, citing an unnamed U.S. official, reported the U.S. operation had concluded. Iranian media said a projectile struck the area around a pier in Sirik in southern Iran. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps on Saturday said it targeted U.S. military positions in the region, in response to the U.S. strike.
U.S. strikes Iran again after Trump denies deal on Strait of Hormuz
Iran and U.S. trade airstrikes after Trump dismisses report of Hormuz deal DUBAI/WASHINGTON - Iran's Revolutionary Guard said on Thursday it targeted a U.S. airbase after the U.S. military carried out what a Washington official said were strikes targeting an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump rejected a report he was close to a compromise deal with Tehran. The escalation in hostilities highlighted threats to the tenuous ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran that took effect in early April, dampening hopes for a peace deal and sending oil prices surging again. A U.S. official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about military operations, said the military shot down four Iranian attack drones and struck a ground control station in the port city of Bandar Abbas that was about to launch a fifth drone. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right. With your current subscription plan you can comment on stories.
Health experts call for AI addiction to be classed as a mental illness - as sufferers report feeling suicidal when separated from their favourite chatbot
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Meta's Big Brother move: Mark Zuckerberg's firm starts tracking employees' mouse clicks and taking screenshots of their screens - as one worker calls it 'very dystopian'
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Can you spot the fake? Take the test to see if you can distinguish between real and AI-generated VOICES
In the past, voice assistants like Siri or the one in your satnav used so-called'synthetic voices'. These require voice actors to spend hours in the recording studio, meticulously sampling all the different words and phrases that the assistant might need. Voice clones, on the other hand, have revolutionised how synthetic voices are created, by using AI to digitally recreate someone's speech patterns. These clones can be created with as little as a few seconds of recorded audio, even using clips from social media or snippets of conversation as the raw material. This has sparked concerns that criminals using AI could easily impersonate friends, family, or co-workers to manipulate their targets . According to the National Trading Standards, criminals are already using AI to clone people's voices and set up unauthorised direct debits over the phone. In the study, the researchers created voice clones of human participants using just 120 pre-recorded sentences. Participants listened to 80 unique sentences - 40 spoken by a real person and 40 spoken by an AI voice clone. The researchers compared human (top) AI-generated (bottom) voice recordings to see why this might be the case, but couldn't find any clear explanation Can you tell which voices are AI?
War Memes Are Turning Conflict Into Content
The systems behind them--and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment--are more serious. As ceasefire announcements between the US and Iran --and separately between Israel and Lebanon --dominated headlines over the past two weeks, they also prompted a look back at how war spread online: through memes. There were jokes about conscription. Captions about getting drafted, but at least with a Bluetooth device. The song "Bazooka" went viral, with users lip-syncing to "Rest in peace my granny, she got hit by a bazooka."
Path-Sampled Integrated Gradients
Kamalov, Firuz, Thabtah, Fadi, Sivaraj, R., Abdelhamid, Neda
We introduce path-sampled integrated gradients (PS-IG), a framework that generalizes feature attribution by computing the expected value over baselines sampled along the linear interpolation path. We prove that PS-IG is mathematically equivalent to path-weighted integrated gradients, provided the weighting function matches the cumulative distribution function of the sampling density. This equivalence allows the stochastic expectation to be evaluated via a deterministic Riemann sum, improving the error convergence rate from $O(m^{-1/2})$ to $O(m^{-1})$ for smooth models. Furthermore, we demonstrate analytically that PS-IG functions as a variance-reducing filter against gradient noise - strictly lowering attribution variance by a factor of 1/3 under uniform sampling - while preserving key axiomatic properties such as linearity and implementation invariance.
Candy now tastes different. It's not just you.
From recipe changes to aging taste buds, here's why those peanut butter cups don't hit like they used to. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. There's a reason you might remember Hershey's chocolate differently. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Brad Reese, grandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups inventor H.B. Reese, caused a stir this year with his claims that The Hershey Company had changed his grandfather's recipes beyond recognition .