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Laurent Cantet, an eminent director who made insightful films about the thorny aspects of French life and society, died on April 25 in Paris. He was 63 years old.His writer and editor, Robin Campillo, said he died of cancer in hospital.Cantet's best-known film was “Entre les Murs” (“The Class”), which won the Palme d'Or, the top prize of the Cannes Film Festival, in 2008 and was nominated for an Oscar as best film in foreign language. “The Class” was something new in French cinema: an extended snapshot of the interior of a school classroom in a working-class neighborhood of Paris, using a real-life former teacher and real-life schoolchildren and walking a provocative line between documentary and fiction. .This ambiguity infuses the film with a rare tension, as a hapless language...

Wayve, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence systems for autonomous vehicles, said Tuesday it had raised $1 billion, an eye-popping sum for a European start-up and an example of investor optimism about AI's ability to reshape industries.SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate that backed Uber and other tech companies, was the lead investor, along with Microsoft and Nvidia. Previous investors in Wayve include Yann LeCun, Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist.Wayve, which previously raised about $300 million, did not disclose its valuation after the investment.Wayve was co-founded in 2017 by Alex Kendall, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge specializing in computer vision and robotics. Unlike generative AI models, which create human-like text and images and ...

But Israeli leaders have also vowed to conduct a major military operation in Rafah against Hamas forces they believe are fortified there. Netanyahu has repeatedly said that Israel will invade Rafah with or without a ceasefire agreement.Hamas wants Israel to withdraw all its forces, but Israel says it must maintain control of security in Gaza.Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza after previous conflicts with Hamas in 2014 and 2009, but this time Israeli leaders say it's not that simple.During the Hamas-led attack on October 7, Palestinian gunmen overwhelmed communities and military bases near Gaza, killing around 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials.Israeli leaders have pledged to do whatever is necessary to ensure that such an attack can never happen again, and say that means ...

Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer's that would mean up to a fifth of patients would be considered to have a genetically caused form of the disease.Currently, the vast majority of Alzheimer's cases do not have a clearly identified cause. The new designation, proposed in a study published Monday, could broaden the scope of efforts to develop treatments, including gene therapy, and influence the design of clinical trials.It could also mean that hundreds of thousands of people in the United States alone could, if they wanted, receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's before developing any symptoms of cognitive decline, even though there are currently no treatments for people at that stage.The new classification would make this type of Alzheimer...

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, put pressure on China on Monday to help resolve the war in Ukraine, saying Beijing should "use all its influence on Russia to end its war of aggression against Ukraine." .He spoke after accompanying French President Emmanuel Macron on a meeting with Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, who on Sunday began his first visit to Europe in five years. Ms von der Leyen has consistently taken a stronger line on China than Macron.With Russian President Vladimir V. Putin again suggesting he may be ready to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, he said Xi played “an important role in debunking Russia's irresponsible nuclear threats.” She was confident, von der Leyen said, that Xi “would continue to do so against the backdrop of cont...

Sohail Prasad, an entrepreneur, launched a fund called Destiny Tech100 in March. The fund owns shares of tech start-ups such as payments company Stripe, rocket maker SpaceX and artificial intelligence company OpenAI.Few people have the opportunity to invest in these private companies since their shares are not openly traded. Mr Prasad's intention with Destiny was to let the rest of the world receive a share of it through his fund.But soon after Destiny's debut, two tech startups — Stripe and Plaid, a banking service — said the fund didn't legally own their shares. One contestant criticized Destiny as "too good to be true." Robinhood, the stock trading app, stopped allowing investors to buy into the fund, saying it had been added to its app in error.Mr Prasad was not surpris...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected international pressure to curb his military campaign in Gaza and, speaking at a Holocaust memorial, asserted Israel's right to fight its "genocidal enemies."Nearly seven months into the war, Netanyahu remains steadfast in his goal of destroying Hamas. That, and Netanyahu's insistence on sending troops to Rafah, the Gaza Strip's southernmost city, have complicated efforts to end the fighting and raised concerns about the future of hostages held by Hamas.But Netanyahu remained defiant.On Sunday, he spoke at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, to mark National Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Hamas attack on October 7, she said, was not a “Holocaust” – not because Hamas did not intend to destroy Isr...

Antalya, sıcak iklimi, tarihi zenginlikleri ve turistik cazibesiyle dünya genelinde popüler bir destinasyondur. Ancak, Antalya'da yaşayanlar veya buraya taşınanlar bilir ki, zaman zaman eşyalarınız için güvenli bir depolama alanına ihtiyaç duyabilirsiniz. İşte bu noktada devreye Antalya eşya depolama hizmetleri giriyor. Eşya Depolamanın Önemi Antalya'da yaşamak veya tatil yapmak harika olsa da, evinizde veya iş yerinizde her zaman kullanmadığınız eşyalar olabilir. Bu eşyaları güvenli bir şekilde saklamak, onları korumak ve gerektiğinde kolayca erişebilmek önemlidir. İşte bu nedenle Antalya'da eşya depolama hizmetleri oldukça değerlidir. Antalya'da Eşya Depolama Hizmetlerinin Avantajları Güvenlik: Antalya'daki eşya depolama tesisleri, eşyalarınızın güvenliğini sağlamak için mo...

Additional testing of retail dairy products from across the country showed no signs of live avian influenza virus, strengthening the consensus that pasteurization protects consumers from the threat, federal health and safety officials said Wednesday. agriculture at a press conference.But the extent of the avian flu outbreak in cattle remains unclear, as dairy herds are not routinely tested for the infection, scientists and other experts have noted.Only one human infection, a mild one, has been reported on a Texas dairy farm that had direct contact with sick cows. But scientists fear there could be many more undetected infections, particularly among agricultural workers.Just two dozen people have been tested for bird flu, federal officials said at the briefing. There have been no unusual ...

Once a powerful local Congolese leader, Lusinga Iwa Ng'ombe fought against Belgian colonial invaders in the late 19th century.He was such a thorn in his side that Émile Storms, who commanded Belgian troops in the region, predicted that his head would “eventually end up in Brussels with a little label: it wouldn't be out of place in a museum.”This is exactly what happened. Mr Storms' troops killed and beheaded Mr Lusinga in 1884, and his skull ended up in a box at the Brussels-based Institute of Natural Sciences, along with more than 500 human remains taken from former Belgian colonies.His descendants are fighting for the return of his remains, and their efforts take place against the backdrop of a broader debate about Europe's responsibility for colonial atrocities, repara...