Russia’s ties to Asia were shored up by Putin signing numerous deals with Vietnam
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un have signed a strategic pact to end the Cold War and destabilise the Middle East. The pact was signed on the sidelines of Putin’s state visit to Vietnam. Putin said the two countries share an interest in “developing a reliable security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region with no room for closed military-political blocs”.
We still need the Next Big Leap in Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has announced that its AI-based Claude chatbot, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, has been tested to be better than models from Facebook, Google, and OpenAI. Anthropic said Claude 3.5 Sonnet scored better than models on popular artificial intelligence tests, including a graduate level test of expertise in biology, physics, and chemistry.
Perplexity is a hitting machine
US-based AI search engine startup Perplexity, which was recently accused of plagiarising content, says it’s an artificial intelligence-powered search engine that provides concise, real-time answers to user queries by pulling information from recently published articles and indexing the web daily. It’s also used by search engines to catalog the contents of the open internet and make it easier to find.
After more than 150 years, the sensory secrets of penis and clitoris have been unlocked
Researchers have examined the development of Krause corpuscles (nerve cells) in mice before they reach sexual maturity. They found that Krause corpuscles didn’t develop until the mice were around 4-6 weeks old, just before the animals reached sexual maturity. However, most sensory neurons are developed before birth, the researchers said. Although most sensory neurons are developed before birth, researchers added.
Putin will meet with Kim Jung Un, leader of North Korea
North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam visited Russia on Tuesday after the country signed a strategic partnership agreement with Russia. Kim said North Korea and Russia will work together to ensure peace and stability on the peninsula. However, he also said that the deal won’t bring an end to tensions between the two countries.
Scientists have an answer as to how fish know where sound comes from
Researchers have shown that some fish can independently detect two components of a sound wave, pressure and particle motion, and combine this information to identify where a sound comes from. They used the PIVlab-80 vibrometric imaging system to study the motion of the inner structures of fish because it was developed to study the motion of flowing particles.
Themselves should stop debasing Israel
Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz has warned that Israel is prepared to go to war with Lebanese Hezbollah. “I think there’s no other choice but to go to war with Hezbollah,” he added. Earlier this year, Israel launched a military offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel.
Israel claims it will reduce fighting in part of southern Gaza
Israel’s Defence Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said the influence of one of PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners, Itamar Ben Gvir, the Minister of National Security, was a constant presence over the discussions in the War Cabinet. Ben-Gvir added that he was not a member of that decision-making body. About 1,200 people were killed in the attack on southern Israel on October 7.
Can the sustainable development goals be made smarter?
UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres has asked the world body to extend the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to 2050 as part of its annual summit, the UN Summit of the Future. The SDGs were adopted by the world body in 2005 and aim to halve global warming by 2050. Guterres called for an “ambitious” agenda to achieve the goals.
The ancient genomes have insights into the ritual life at Chichén Itz
Researchers have performed F4 tests of the form F4(Mbuti, YCH; test, TIX) to identify if the YCH group is more closely related to the TIX group, or shared an excess of alleles with any population in position test. We used qpWave50 v.420 to test whether the newly sequenced individuals were genetically similar enough to be grouped into one group.