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Since scientists discovered earlier this year that the flu infects American cows, they have wondered how it spreads from one animal to another. An experiment in Kansas and Germany has shed some light on the mystery.Scientists have failed to find evidence that the virus can spread as a respiratory infection. Juergen Richt, a virologist at Kansas State University who helped lead the research, said the findings suggest the virus is primarily infectious via contaminated milking machines.In an interview, Dr. Richt said the findings raised hopes that the epidemic could be stopped before the virus evolved into a form that could spread easily among humans.“I think it's good news that we can most likely control it more easily than people thought,” Dr. Richt said. “Hopefully we can now kick t...

This article is part of Neglecteda series of obituaries about extraordinary people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, were not reported in The Times.For many fashionable women of the mid-20th century, no hat was worth wearing unless it was made by Otto Lucas.A London-based milliner, Lucas designed chic turbans, caps and cloches, often made from luxurious velvets and silks and adorned with flowers or feathers.His designs graced the covers of magazines such as British Vogue and the heads of clients who reportedly included actresses Greta Garbo and Gene Tierney, as well as the Duchesses of Windsor and Kent.The name Otto Lucas was ubiquitous in England. At the height of his success, he sold thousands of hats every year around the world.“He must have been the most famous milliner of the 1960s,” ...

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In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. The match was wrong and Mr. Williams sued.On Friday, as part of a legal settlement over his wrongful arrest, Mr. Williams won a commitment from the Detroit Police Department to do better. The city has adopted new rules for police use of facial recognition technology that the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Mr. Williams, says should be the new national standard.“We hope this moves the needle in the right direction,” Mr Williams said.Mr Williams was the first known person to be wrongly arrested due to faulty facial recognition. But she wasn't the last. Detroit police have arrested at least two more people following facial recognition se...

A reformist candidate critical of Iran's law requiring women to wear headscarves will compete next week against a hardline conservative in a runoff for the country's presidency, state media said on Saturday, following a special vote after the killing of the previous leader. last month in a helicopter crash.A second round of voting will take place on July 5, pitting reformist Masoud Pezeshkian against Saeed Jalili, an ultra-conservative former nuclear negotiator. The runoff election was partly the result of low voter turnout and a crowded field of four candidates. , three of whom competed for the Conservative vote. Iranian law requires a winner to receive more than 50% of all votes cast.Participating in another round of elections will put a strain on the energies of an already a...

The Biden administration said this week that it opposes gender reaffirmation surgeries for minors, the most explicit statement yet on the topic from a president who has always been a staunch supporter of transgender rights.The White House announcement was sent to the New York Times on Wednesday in response to an article reporting that staff in the office of Adm. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, had solicited an influential organization International Transgender Health Committee to remove age minimums for surgery from its guidelines for the treatment of minors.The interim guidelines would have lowered the minimum age limits to 14 for hormone treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgery, and 17 for genital sur...

Rishi Sunak’s gamble was remarkable. Five weeks ago, the British prime minister bet the house on his belief that a summer election would give his Conservative Party a better chance of holding on to power than waiting until the autumn.Calling a snap election was Sunak’s last throw of the dice. But it has since emerged that in the days before he announced to the country in the pouring rain on May 22 that he was going to the polls, a number of colleagues and underlings were placing bets of a more literal kind.Looking at data from the week before Mr Sunak’s announcement, bookmakers noticed a spike in bets placed on the election date. The amounts wagered were small, totalling just a few thousand pounds, but the sudden flurry of activity was enough to warrant further investigation.The question o...

What does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has imagined this for decades. Now AI developers are taking inspiration from movies, creating voices for real machines based on dated movie fantasies about how machines should talk.Last month, OpenAI revealed updates to its AI chatbot. ChatGPT, the company said, was learning to hear, see, and converse in a natural voice, one that sounded a lot like the disembodied operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson in Spike Jonze’s 2013 film “Her.”ChatGPT’s voice, called Sky, also had a raspy timbre, a soothing effect, and a sexy edge. It was pleasant and modest; it seemed ready for anything. After Sky’s debut, Johansson expressed disappointment that it sounded “disturbingly similar” and said she had previously rejected OpenAI’s request t...

As voting took place in Iran's presidential election on Friday, early estimates from election officials showed that only about 40% of eligible voters appeared to have voted. The low turnout was a potential blow to ruling clerics, who have made voter participation an indicator of their legitimacy and hoped to achieve a 50% turnout, compared to 70% in past presidential elections.Hafez Hakami, campaign manager of the sole reformist candidate, Dr Masoud Pezeshkians, confirmed in a telephone interview after polls closed that voter turnout had been lower than expected. "We really expected a turnout of more than 50 percent," he said, "but unfortunately the social atmosphere for the vote was still heavy, it was not possible to convince people to show up at the polls."After enduring years of e...

On the surface, abortion rights have fared well on the Supreme Court this term. Two weeks ago, the justices unanimously allowed the abortion pill to remain widely available. On Thursday, the court dismissed a case related to Idaho's strict abortion ban, which has had the effect of allowing emergency rooms in the state to perform the procedure when the patient's health is at risk.But the two sentences were so technical as to be ephemeral. They seemed designed to avoid and delay, to put off a volatile topic, or at least beyond Election Day.Some abortion rights advocates called these rulings Pyrrhic victories, fearing they would pave the way for further restrictions, either by the courts or by a second Trump administration.In the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organiz...