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The European car manufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Volkswagen, said on Wednesday that the chaos and further upheaval caused by the rates introduced by President Trump had left them fighting to evaluate the impact and unable to plan the future.After years of slow demand and high inflation, the European car manufacturers went in 2025 with a series of new battery models and large hopes that would have attracted customers.Instead, they face the global uncertainty that surrounds the supply chains and customers' demand, started by Mr. Trump to impose rates of 25 % on all cars, steel and aluminum that arrive in the United States.Wednesday, Mercedes-Benz suspended his financial forecasts for 2025, as well as Stellantide, which includes Fiat, Peugeot and Opel between its br...

When I travel to Asia this summer, I intend to leave my iPhone at home. Instead, I will put a different phone without my basic apps, such as Instagram, Slack and Signal. Access to my and -workmail will not be carried out.No, I'm not planning digital detoxification. I am choosing to travel with what is known as a burner phone because my personal device contains sensitive data that I do not want others, in particular the protection of the protection of US borders.For over a decade, the Federal Government has had the authority to conduct the border research of the personal electronics of travelers, including phones, laptops and tablets. In recent years, these inspections have constantly increased, although they only occur to a small part of the people who enter the United States.Last year...

The United Nations, anticipating that President Trump will cut the contributions of the United States to the global organism, told his departments to process plans for budget cuts, also through staff transfers from New York and Geneva to less expensive cities.The instructions-delineate in a two-page note of April 25 who was revised by the New York Times-S-shed by the office of the Secretary General António Guterres to the leaders of all the agencies that refer directly to him. The memo has set a deadline for May 15 for all proposals so that they can be added to the 2026 budget."Your goal is to identify as many functions as possible that could be transferred to existing low -cost positions", reads the memo, "or otherwise reduced or abolished whether they are duplicates or no longer vital".I...

On April 1, the efforts of the Trump administration to cut the government funding arrived in Morgantown, W.Va., where federal scientists spent their days studying health and safety threats to American workers. That morning, hundreds of employees of the National Institute for occupational Safety and Health were informed that they had been closed and that they would lose access to the building.The shoulders were more than 900 laboratory animals. In the end, the Institute managed to move about two third-thirds-proves, as well as a handful of mice-invading them to university laboratories, according to two employees of the structures that have recently been interrupted. The remaining 300 animals, however, were euthanous last week.In recent months, the Trump administration has targeted the Ameri...

The traffic lights were turning again from red to green. The trains in the Madrid subway system were rolling on all lines except one. And the waiters were serving food and generous slopes of beer and wine to customers in the terraces of a long -haired road restaurant than normal.A day after Spain and Portugal were affected by large blackouts, electricity had returned to most areas of both countries on Tuesday, leaving many raised but also clearly critical on what had caused exactly the widespread energy insufficiency.Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said that his country recovered over 95 percent of the total offer by 6.30 on Tuesday. In the nearby Portugal, a spokesman for the electricity and gas supplier Ren said that the energy had been restored to all subsits of the country's ...

The battle of billionaires in the space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has entered a new arena: satellite internet.Amazon, the company that Bezos has started as online bookshop three decades ago, is now a merchandising behemoth, the owner of the James Bond franchise, an electronic gadget seller such as Echo Smart Speaker and one of the most powerful cloud computing suppliers.So perhaps it is not a surprise that Amazon has now launched the first thousand satellites known as Project Kuiper to provide another option to remain connected in the modern world. The market to transmit high -speed internet on the ground from the orbit is currently dominated by Elon Musk's Spacex Rocket Company, which manages a similar service, Starlink. Starlink, with thousands of satellites in orbit and more ...

Dozens of people were killed on Monday in an attack that hit a migrant structure in an area of ​​the northern Yemen controlled by the Houthi militia, according to the officials of the group and aid.The Houthi militia, supported by Iran, said that an American strike hit what the group called a migrant center in Saada, killing at least 68 African migrants. An official of the United States Defense Department stated that the central command was "aware of the claims of civil victims relating to the United States strikes in Yemen and we take these statements very seriously". The official declared that he was conducting an assessment of the damage and an investigation into the statements of the Houthi.The attack arrived hours after the American army said that American forces had conducted more th...

When a person develops solid tumors in the stomach or esophagus or rectum, oncologists know how to treat them. But care often have serious effects on the quality of life. This may include the removal of the stomach or bladder, a permanent colostomy bag, radiation that makes patients infertile and last lasting from chemotherapy.So a research group at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, using a drug of the GSK pharmaceutical company, has tried something different.The researchers started with a group of 103 people. The participants in the study were between 2-3 percent of patients with cancer with tumors who should respond to immunotherapy, a drug that exceeds the barriers that prevent the immune system from attacking tumors.But in clinical studies, immunotherapy should not replace st...

The Ukrainian soldiers got up in the Predawn, stretching, rubbing their eyes and rolling out of sleeping bags in a hiding place in the basement near the first -line line in the east of the country. Their day would not bring them very far away. Most remained in the basement, working with keyboards and joystick that control the drones.At a precarious moment for Ukraine, while the country falters among the hopes that the interviews of ceased the fire of President Trump end the war and the fears that the United States withdraw military support, the soldiers were taking part in an initiative of the Ukrainian army that Kiev hopes that they will allow him to remain in American combat weapons.On Sunday, after a week of war relentlessly in Ukraine, including the most fatal attack in Kiev, the capit...

The question if being educated to artificial intelligence may seem like a controversial point - after all it is artificial.But Sam Altman, CEO of the Openai artificial intelligence company, recently shed light on the cost of adding a further "please!" or "Thanks!" For chatbot suggestions.Someone published on X last week: "I wonder how much Openi money lost the costs of electricity from the people who say" please "and" thanks "to their models."The next day, Mr. Altman replied: "Tens of millions of dollars well spent - you never know".First: every single question of a chatbot costs money and energy and every additional word as part of that church increases the cost for a server.Neil Johnson, a physics professor at the George Washington University who studied artificial intelligence, compared...