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An arrangement of dried flowers pressed between sheets of plastic, the name “Quintana” written in a child’s neat lettering at the top.A yellow Post-it with a poem written in cursive: “My mom is not a sigh/She does not eat pie/Maybe she can fly.”A pocket-size notebook of handmade paper composed as a Mother’s Day gift in which the now adult daughter, Quintana, had pasted a series of photographs she’d taken of her mother, Joan Didion, on a television screen, her own blurry toe visible in the foreground, followed by a note in green ink: “Thought you might want to see yourself…

Herb Greene, whose evocative portraits of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and others helped define the rock scene that emerged in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, died on March 3 at his home in Maynard, Mass. He was 82.His wife, Ilze Greene, said the cause was pancreatic cancer.Mr. Greene pursued music portraiture in his spare time while working for about a dozen years in the 1960s and ’70s, as a fashion photographer for the Joseph Magnin department store and the men’s wear retailer Cable Car Clothiers.Instead of photographing concerts, which did not interest him, he invited bands and…

The Alibaba office building in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on Aug 28, 2024.CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesAlibaba Cloud launched Thursday its latest AI model in its “Qwen series,” as large language model competition in China continues to heat up following the “DeepSeek moment.”The new “Qwen2.5-Omni-7B” is a multimodal model, which means it can process inputs, including text, images, audio and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses, according to an announcement on Alibaba Cloud’s website. The company says that the model can be deployed on edge devices like mobile phones, offering high efficiency without compromising performance. “This unique…

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Descrease article font size Increase article font size While on vacation with his family, Stephen Slous received an unexpected and shocking alert that would forever change how he views door-to-door sales reps. “I was on vacation on Vancouver Island,” Slous said. “I got an alert that someone was at our front door. Then it said someone was in our carport.“When we reviewed the footage, I saw him standing by the tire and thought he was going to try to break into the vehicle.”Instead of attempting a break-in, the third-party contractor who was working for Rogers Communications at the time did…

The federal government has been grilled over fears tech billionaire Elon Musk might use his platform X, formerly Twitter, to “agitate for far-right politics in Australia”.Greens senator David Shoebridge aired fears about the Tesla CEO’s influence in the upcoming election following his support for the far-right AfD party in Germany.Musk has been vocal in his support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), despite the party being monitored over suspicions of extremism in some German states.“Elon Musk is actively using his platform X to exercise foreign interference in the German election campaign,” Mr Shoebridge told Home Affairs Minister Murray Watt.“And, we’re…

TOKYO: Shares in Japan’s biggest car companies fell on Thursday (Mar 27) after US President Donald Trump announced a 25 per cent tariff on auto imports to take effect next week. The world’s top-selling automaker Toyota dropped 3.7 per cent as the Tokyo market opened, while Nissan shed 3.2 per cent and Honda fell as much as 3.1 per cent. Mitsubishi Motors was down 3.7 per cent, and in South Korea, Hyundai shares dipped 3.4 per cent. The auto industry is a huge pillar of the Japanese economy, with about 10 per cent of jobs there connected to the sector. Vehicles…

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, will face trial on charges that he oversaw a vast scheme to cling to power after losing the 2022 elections, including an attempt to overturn the vote and a plot to assassinate the nation’s president-elect, the country’s Supreme Court decided on Wednesday.The ruling marks a significant effort to hold Mr. Bolsonaro accountable for accusations that he sought to effectively dismantle Brazil’s democracy by orchestrating a broad plan to stage a coup.Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is overseeing the case, said in explaining his decision that there was no doubt Mr. Bolsonaro “knew, handled…

Federal health officials said they are cutting $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for state and local public health departments — money that was largely used for COVID-19 testing, virus research and community health jobs.”The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Tuesday.The statement said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects to recover the money beginning 30 days after termination notices, which began being sent out on Monday. The…

A doctoral student at the University of Alabama was detained by federal immigration authorities, the university said in a statement on Wednesday, one of more than half a dozen students who have been targeted by the Trump administration in recent weeks.The student was not named by the school, but online records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicate that Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian citizen, was detained by the agency. Alex House, a spokeswoman with the University of Alabama, which is in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said that the student was detained off campus. It was not clear why the student was targeted, and…