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Tokyo, Japan (AFP) — The AI programme ChatGPT has passed exams, penned news articles and produced code. So perhaps no surprise that “One Piece” author Eiichiro Oda has turned to it for inspiration. The man behind the record-breaking manga often referred to as one of the best-known in the world seemed to have found himself struggling with writer’s block last month. “Hello. This is the author. I cannot come up with a story for One […]
Washington, United States (AFP) — The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft arrived at the orbiting station at 0640 GMT on Friday, the US space agency said in a statement. NASA’s Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russia’s Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates entered the station about two hours later, the livestream showed. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the spacecraft had blasted off to the station on Thursday after the launch was […]
Manila, Philippines (AFP) — Thousands of fishermen in the Philippines have been ordered to stay ashore as authorities struggled Friday to contain an oil spill from a sunken tanker that is threatening the region’s rich marine life and economy. The slick off Mindoro island, south of the capital Manila, stretched for 120 kilometres (75 miles) and was about nine kilometres offshore, said Ram Temena, disaster operations chief in the affected province of Mindoro Oriental. The […]
San Francisco, United States (AFP) — TikTok is closing in on streaming giant Netflix when it comes to the amount of time US adults spend on the platforms, according to a report released Thursday by Insider Intelligence. TikTok use eclipsed that of YouTube two years ago and has continued to grow faster than the Google-owned video sharing platform, particularly among US adults in their prime earning years, the report indicated. “The amount of time US […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — As Asia’s “Quad” powers search for ways to define the group, Japan’s foreign minister has offered a model — The Beatles. Yoshimasa Hayashi, an avid music fan, drew the parallel to the Fab Four on Friday, as he met his Quad counterparts from the United States, Australia and India in New Delhi. “This is kind of a band like The Beatles. The members are fixed and they always play together […]
by Paul HANDLEY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A US jury on Thursday found lawyer Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son on their hunting estate. Scion of an elite South Carolina family of judges and attorneys, Murdaugh, 54, was described as having killed his son Paul with a shotgun and his wife Maggie with the assault rifle Paul used for hunting wild pigs on the family’s sprawling property. Following the […]
by Matthew WALSH Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Xi Jinping will secure a third term as China’s president at a rubber-stamp parliament that starts this weekend, enjoying unchallengeable status despite criticism over his handling of Covid and the economy. Xi is certain to be reappointed as president after he locked in another five years as head of the Communist Party (CCP) and the military — the two more significant leadership positions in Chinese […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Luka Doncic scored 42 points and Kyrie Irving added 40 as the Dallas Mavericks thwarted the Philadelphia 76ers’ late comeback bid Thursday in a wild 133-126 NBA victory. Offensive fireworks were expected in a game featuring the top two scorers in the league in Doncic and 76ers center Joel Embiid. But the seamless blend of Doncic and Irving was a revelation after the Mavs had gone 1-4 with the […]
by Jacques KLOPP Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — Bike technology has become so important to elite road racing teams that the sport has, one rider said, “become like Formula One”. When the first significant stage race of the season, Paris-Nice, starts on Sunday, riders will be watching their rivals and complaining that others have better bikes. “Everyone is talking about the bike now,” says French rider Axel Laurance. “It’s so fast that the […]
(Eagle News) — Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista has ordered the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board to relax the requirements for the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). The order was announced days after several transport groups announced a weeklong strike over the formation of cooperatives under the PUVMP. Manibela and the United Transport Federation jeepney organizations had said their strike would start on March 6. Reports estimated the number of commuters to be affected […]
by Kelly MACNAMARA Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Some send divers in speed boats, others dispatch submersible robots to search the seafloor, and one team deploys a “mud missile” — all tools used by scientists to scour the world’s oceans for the next potent cancer treatment or antibiotic. A medicinal molecule could be found in microbes scooped up in sediment, be produced by porous sponges or sea squirts — barrel-bodied creatures that cling to […]
Cairo, Egypt (AFP) — Scientists have discovered a hidden passage inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid, the authorities announced on Thursday, part of a seven-year international research project. The passage is nine metres (30 feet) in length and more than two metres in width, the antiquities ministry said in a statement. Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa told reporters at the ancient site in Giza also known as the Khufu, or Cheops, pyramid, that the “gabled […]
