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What James Howells wants to do is, on his behalf, simple: to buy a landfill, dig tens of thousands of tons of garbage, shopping every cassone piece on any persistent metal object and, therefore, finds the lost hard drive that contains his own Wrong discarded bitcoin key, for a value of about $ 800 million."This seems logical," said Howells on his plan.For more than a decade, Mr. Howells has implored, negotiated and begged anyone - very often, the Newport City Council, in South Wales - to obtain access to the waste mountains in search of his cryptographic white whale: a disc rigid that was accidentally thrown away in 2013.He ensured a data recovery company and an excavator. He enrolled the former landfill director to map the site. He brought the case to court, unnecessarily. So far the city...

X agreed to pay in the $ 10 million interval to resolve a cause intended by President Trump on the 2021 suspension of his account on the social media platform, according to a person informed on the matter.The company, then known as Twitter, removed Mr. Trump from his platform after the revolt of the Capitol of the United States on January 6, 2021, citing his inflammatory places and claiming that they could lead to more violence. Trump sued, claiming that Twitter and other technological companies that removed his accounts had made him censor unjustly.Elon Musk, now the owner of X and a nearby director of the president, has restored the Trump account shortly after acquiring the company in 2022. Mr. Musk launched his support behind Mr. Trump, giving more than $ 250 million to His campaign and...

Finding in the fickle hair of President Trump, Jordan and Egypt are moving with speed - and the uncertain perspectives of success - to dissuade, distract him and distract him from the forcing them to take the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.For the two Arab governments, which consider Trump's proposal that assume two million Palestinians as an existential threat, the strategy seems to be to appease the President of the United States with offers to work together to reconstruct Gaza, bring peace to the region and expand humanitarian aid efforts. This could help them buy time, analysts say - perhaps enough for Mr. Trump to discard the too complicated idea or to recognize the strategic and safety disadvantages of the destabilization of two of the closest allies in the United States in the reg...

A worsening of the measles epidemic has taken root in Texas, disgusting two dozen and in the nine hospital on the western edge of the state, where child vaccination rates have decreased in recent years.Starting from Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all not vaccinated, local health officials said. The epidemic arrives when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a convinced critic of childhood vaccines, has been appointed as the next secretary of the country's health, making public health experts care that similar increases in preventable diseases will become more frequent ."There is the feeling that this will be increasingly common," said dr. Cameron Wolfe, an expert in infectious diseases at Duke University.The Texas epidemic has so far been limited to the residents of the County of ...

The first high official of the Trump administration should have visited Ukraine, one day after Russia released an American prisoner in a development that President Trump has defined a positive sign for the fire interviews.The journey of the Treasury Secretary Scott Besent comes in the middle of Kiev anxiety and among the American allies on the fact that the support of the United States for the Ukrainian war effort will now be maintained that Mr. Trump has returned to the White House.The Trump administration has already sought an agreement for the United States to guarantee the rights to Ukrainian natural resources, including the minerals of rare lands, as a guarantee for further American assistance.Tuesday Trump declared in a post on Truth Social that Mr. Bessent was sending in Ukraine bec...

Last month, the US financial markets collapsed after a Chinese start-up called Deepseek said he had built one of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in the world using much less computers chips than many experts thought possible.Artificial intelligence companies generally train their chatbots using supercomputer rich in 16,000 specialized or more chips. But Deepsek said he needed only about 2,000.Like deepest engineers detailed in a research document published immediately after Christmas, the start-up has used several technological tricks to significantly reduce the construction costs of its system. His engineers needed only about $ 6 million in rough processing power, about a tenth of what destined has spent to build his latest AI technology.What exactly did Deepseek do? Her...

Tuesday the King Abdullah II of Jordan rejected President Trump's proposal for his country to absorb the Palestinians who live in Gaza, saying that he remained against a plan that Trump has established to free the territory so that the United States can grasp its control.During a "constructive" meeting with the President of the United States in the White House, he said King Abdullah, "reiterated the rescue position of Jordan against the displacement of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank"."This is the unified Arab position," he said in a post on social media after the meeting. "Reconstruct Gaza without moving the Palestinians and facing the terrible humanitarian situation should be the priority for everyone."His statement came hours after Mr. Trump insisted on the fact that the Unit...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to retain a plan that would have reduced $ 4 billion of federal funding for research in universities, tumor centers and hospitals of the nation.The funds provided by the National Institutes of Health cover the administrative and general costs for a wide range of biomedical research, some of which are aimed at facing diseases such as cardiovascular conditions, cancer and diabetes.The order was issued by Judge Angel Kelley for the United States District Court in Boston late at night in response to a case presented by university associations and main research centers that had argued that "the flagly illegal action" by the US health officials "devastate medical research in American universities."The temporary restrictive order by judge Kelley, a...

On Tuesday, the vice -president JD Vance told the European and Asian leaders in Paris that the Trump administration was adopting an aggressive approach, America for the first approach to the race to dominate all the bricks of artificial intelligence and warned the Europeans to dismantle the regulations and make it on board with Washington.During his first foreign journey since he entered office, Vance used his opening address in a meeting at the top of the ASA hosted by France and India to describe his vision of an arrival era of American technological domination. Europe, he said, would have been forced to choose between the use of technology designed and produced by the Americans or take sides with authoritarian-unpacked competitors not very veiled to China-that would have exploited the t...

A group of investors led by Elon Musk made an offer of $ 97.4 billion to buy the non -profit activities that controls Openii, according to two people who are familiar with the offer, increasing a year in length and deeply personal for The future of artificial intelligence between Mr. Mr. The CEO of Musk and Openi, Sam Altman.The Consortium includes Vy Capital and Xai, the artificial intelligence company of Mr. Musk, as well as the Hollywood power broker Ari Emanuel and other investors, said that the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because discussions are underway.The Wall Street Journal has previously reported news of the offer.The offer for Openai is the most recent and perhaps more daring attack of Musk to an organization that has contributed to creating almost 10 years ago. ...