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King Charles III on Tuesday unveiled the first official portrait of himself since his coronation just over a year ago: a striking oil painting in which he stares head-on at a background of dappled shades of red, pink and fuchsia.The painting, by famed portraitist Jonathan Yeo, was unveiled at Buckingham Palace, the royal family said means of social communication. video it showed the king pulling on a ribbon attached to the fabric covering the impressive work, which, as it fell, seemed to give him a little surprise.Mr Yeo, who has painted the likes of David Attenborough, Idris Elba and activist Malala Yousafzai, began the portrait in June 2021, when the king was still the Prince of Wales. He depicts him wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards, of which he was colonel of the regiment, with ...

Last May, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would use artificial intelligence to reimagine all of its products.But because the new generative AI technology posed risks, such as the spread of false information, Google was cautious in applying the technology to its search engine, which is used by more than two billion people and which last year generated revenue of $175 billion.On Tuesday, at Google's annual conference in Mountain View, California, Pichai showed how the company's aggressive work on artificial intelligence has finally made its way to the search engine. Starting this week, she said, U.S. users will see a feature, AI Overviews, that generates summaries of information on top of traditional search results. By the end of the year, more than a billion people will ...

Renowned Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof said he fled the country for Europe after a court sentenced him to eight years in prison for his films.Mr Rasoulof – known for his award-winning film “There Is No Evil” – was barred from leaving Iran in 2017 after his work criticized the country's authoritarian government. His lawyer, Babak Paknia, wrote last week on social media that an Iranian court had sentenced Mr Rasoulof to imprisonment, flogging and a fine for films he called "examples of collusion with the intention to commit a crime against the security of the country."On Monday, Rasoulof announced his escape from Iran in an Instagram post that contained a video of snow-capped mountains and said he had reached a "safe place." In a separate statement he said he had arrived in Europe...

Geriatrics is a field of investigation. To solve medical puzzles, doctors must become detectives, identifying the effects of overlapping causes that include chronic conditions, acute injuries, social factors, and the normal aging process. It is a challenge that tests the patience of many doctors; the number of board-certified geriatricians in the United States, now just over 7,000, has been decreasing since 2017.By masquerading as a diagnosis, the term "growth failure" shortens the investigative process, stopping the investigation before doctors can determine the true cause, said Dr. Clara Tsui, a geriatrician at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last month, she saw the label in the medical records of an 82-year-old man with Alzheimer's who had fallen and hit ...

At least two prison officers were killed Tuesday in northern France after armed assailants ambushed a convoy at a toll booth and freed an inmate, French authorities said.Éric Dupond-Moretti, French Minister of Justice, he said on social media platform X that three other prison officers were seriously injured in the episode, which occurred near Incarville, a town in the Eure area north-west of Paris.President Emmanuel Macron said the attack was a “shock for all of us”.“The nation stands alongside the families, the injured and their colleagues,” he said said about X.Gérald Darmanin, French Interior Minister, said about X that “hundreds” of police officers had been deployed to arrest the escaped prisoner and the attackers who had freed them.“Everything possible is being done to find these cri...

While Apple and Google turn their voice assistants into chatbots, OpenAI is turning its chatbot into a voice assistant.The San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up on Monday unveiled a new version of its ChatGPT chatbot that can receive and respond to voice commands, images and videos.The company said the new app, based on an artificial intelligence system called GPT-4o, handles audio, images and video significantly faster than previous versions of the technology. The app will be available starting Monday, free of charge, for both smartphones and desktop computers.“We are looking at the future of interaction between us and machines,” said Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer.The new app is part of a larger effort to combine conversational chatbots like ChatGPT wit...

Israelis gathered across the country on Monday for the first day of national mourning since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks, with protesters disrupting several ceremonies as they called on government ministers to do more to secure the hostages' release .Israel's Memorial Day is normally one of the darkest on the country's calendar, a date when Israelis put aside their differences to mourn fellow citizens killed in war or terrorist attacks. But Monday's protests underlined how wartime feelings of unity have given way to deep disputes over the war in the Gaza Strip, the fate of hostages taken on October 7 and domestic politics.Critics lambasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he attended a memorial on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, the site of Israel's national cemete...

After 30 years as one of England’s top pediatricians, Dr. Hilary Cass was hoping to begin her retirement by learning to play the saxophone.Instead, she took on a project that would throw her into an international fire: reviewing England’s treatment guidelines for the rapidly rising number of children with gender distress, known as dysphoria.At the time, in 2020, England’s sole youth gender clinic was in disarray. The waiting list had swelled, leaving many young patients waiting years for an appointment. Staff members who said they felt pressure to approve children for puberty-blocking drugs had filed whistle-blower complaints that had spilled into public view. And a former patient had sued the clinic, claiming that she had transitioned as a teenager “after a series of superficial conversat...

President Biden on Monday ordered a company with Chinese origins to shut down and sell the Wyoming cryptocurrency mine built a mile from an Air Force base that controls nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.The cryptomining facility, which runs high-powered computers in a data center near F.E. Warren Base in Cheyenne, "presents a risk to the national security of the United States," the president said in an executive order, because its equipment they could be used for surveillance and espionage.The New York Times reported last October that Microsoft, which operates a nearby data center supporting the Pentagon, had reported the China-linked cryptocurrency mine to the Federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, warning that it could allow the Chinese to “pursue f...

The United States has not ruled out withholding further military support for Israel's campaign against Hamas should Israel undertake a major attack on Rafah, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Sunday.“If Israel launches this major military operation in Rafah, then there are certain systems that we will not support and provide for that operation,” Blinken said on CBS' “Face the Nation.” He didn't elaborate.Last week, the White House imposed a delay in the delivery of 3,500 bombs over fears of potential harm to civilians in Rafah, where many Gazans have sought refuge since fighting began seven months ago. Blinken said these are the only weapons the U.S. has retained “at this time.”Two days after the State Department sent a report to Congress raising “substantial quest...