Author: admin

The National Rally party won a landslide victory in the first round of voting for the French National Assembly on Sunday, according to early projections, bringing its long-taboo brand of nationalist, anti-immigrant politics to the threshold of power for the first time .Polling projections, usually reliable and based on preliminary results, suggested that the party would take around 34% of the vote, far more than the centrist Renaissance party of President Emmanuel Macron and his allies, who took around 22% to finish in third place.A coalition of left-wing parties, called the New Popular Front and ranging from moderate socialists to the far-left France Unbowed, was projected to win about 29% of the vote, boosted by strong support among young people.Turnout was high, around 67 percent, compa...

In Japan, engineers are trying to make robots imitate a typically human expression: the smile.They created a face mask from human skin cells and attached it to robots with an innovative technique that hides the binding and is flexible enough to transform into a grimace or cheesy smile.The effect is halfway between the terrifying Hannibal Lecter mask and the Gumby claymation figure.But scientists say the prototypes pave the way for more sophisticated robots, with an outer layer that is elastic and strong enough to protect the machine while making it more humane.According to a study published June 25 in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, the “skin equivalent,” as researchers call it, made from live skin cells in the laboratory, can scar, burn and even self-heal. .“Human-like faces a...

Aside from the tattered posters of Iranian presidential candidates plastered on highway overpasses, there were few signs this weekend that the country had held a presidential election on Friday and was headed toward a runoff.There were almost no demonstrations to applaud the two most voted candidates, who come from opposite ends of the political spectrum and between whom Iranians will decide on July 5.Even from the government's official numbers, it was clear that the real winner of Friday's election was Iran's silent majority who either left their ballots blank or didn't vote at all. About 60 percent of those eligible did not vote or opted for a blank ballot.That's because there was no point in voting, said Bita Irani, 40, a housewife in Tehran, Iran's capital. "We...

When I was little, my father, who left the country only a few times, told me about the trip to Europe he took with his parents when he was 14, in 1966. He told me how Nonie loved the immaculate Swiss streets and the flowerbeds that sparkled with flowers; the fireplace in the house on the hill outside Lugano, where his father was born, with ingenious alcoves on either side for hanging clothes or warming bread; the palpable poverty of the house in Pozzuoli, a town just outside Naples, where Nonie’s aunt had lined the walls with newspaper for better insulation. Every so often, my father would get out his projector and show me his Kodachrome slides.As an adult, I spent years telling him that he and I should repeat the trip together – or at least a short version in which we would go to Switzerl...

A Russian missile attack on a small town in southeastern Ukraine and the ensuing inferno killed at least seven civilians, including three children, the country's authorities said Sunday, as they reviewed the deadly toll from two days of ferocious Russian attacks.Yuriy Borzenko, head physician of the Zaporizhzhia regional children's hospital, said in a telephone interview that in addition to those killed, dozens of others, including a pregnant woman and five 14-year-old girls, were being treated for injuries sustained after the attack on the hospital in the southeastern city of Vilnius on Saturday.The girls had gone out for a walk together in the afternoon sun, Dr. said. Borzenko, when shell explosions ripped through the center of the city, engulfing shops, cars and houses in flame...

Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer now living in exile in suburban Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China and its authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping. China’s response of late has been harsh, with scathing and menacingly personal online attacks.According to researchers at Clemson University and Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, a secret propaganda network linked to the country's security services bombarded not only Mr. Deng but also his teenage daughter with sexually suggestive and threatening posts on popular social media platforms. social media.The content, posted by users under false identities, appeared in replies to Mr Deng’s posts on X, the social media platform, as well as on the accounts of public schools in their community, where his daughter, who is 16, was fa...

Iranian voters demonstrated their displeasure with Iran’s clerical system of governance during Friday’s presidential election, turning out in record numbers to help two establishment candidates limp to a runoff.The July 5 runoff will give voters a final choice between a reformist former health minister, Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, and an ultra-conservative former nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, neither of whom managed to get more than 50 percent of the votes needed to win the presidency. That puts off for another week the question of who will lead Iran through challenges including an ailing economy, the divide between the rulers and the ruled and a nearby war that continues to threaten to drag Iran further in.But despite being on different sides, neither is expected to bring major changes t...

A patient enters a hospital room, sits down and begins talking to a doctor. Except in this case the doctor is a hologram.It might sound like science fiction, but it's reality for some patients at Crescent Regional Hospital in Lancaster, Texas.In May, the hospital group began offering patients the ability to see their doctor remotely as a hologram through a partnership with Holoconnects, a digital technology company based in the Netherlands.Each Holobox, the company’s name for its 440-pound, 7-foot-tall device that displays a highly realistic live 3D video of a person on a screen, costs $42,000, with an additional $1,900 annual service fee.The high-quality image gives the patient the sensation that a doctor is sitting inside the box, when in reality the doctor is miles away looking int...

Il problema, in realtà, si riduce a una sola parola. Sfortunatamente, quella parola, la parola chiave in tutto questo, non è una che può essere usata qui. Ma lo sai. È un aggettivo, un sostantivo, un verbo e il più delle volte un'esclamazione. Potresti dirla quando ti sbatti l'alluce, o rovesci una tazza di caffè, o ti rendi conto di aver premuto accidentalmente "Rispondi a tutti".Oppure, se sei Gary Lineker, potresti usare la parola in un podcast per descrivere una prestazione dell'Inghilterra al campionato europeo. In questo caso, quella che la squadra ha offerto nel suo soporifero pareggio con la Danimarca, ma potrebbe anche essere stata applicata a gran parte della vittoria contro la Serbia e allo stallo con la Slovenia.Ridotto ai suoi elementi essenziali, quindi, potrebbe ...

Uber and Lyft settled a years-long legal dispute with the Massachusetts attorney general on Thursday, agreeing to pay their drivers in the state a minimum rate with certain benefits.As part of the settlement, Uber and Lyft will pay $175 million to resolve allegations that the companies violated state labor laws, with most of the money to be distributed to gig workers, state officials said in a note. But if ride-hailing companies win, drivers will continue to be classified as independent contractors and not employees.Among the benefits the state obtained for its self-employed workers were a health insurance plan for drivers who work at least 15 hours a week, extended accident insurance and a minimum hourly wage of $32.50 per hour. time spent travelling.The agreement followed similar pay an...