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Storm Ciaran wasn’t the last of the adverse weather in Kent Source link

AI Arena AI Eye chatted with Framework Venture’s Vance Spencer recently and he raved about the possibilities offered by an upcoming game his fund invested in called AI Arena in which players train AI models how to battle each other in an arena.Framework Ventures was an early investor in Chainlink and Synthetix and three years ahead of NBA Top Shots with a similar NFL platform, so when they get excited about the future prospects, it’s worth looking into. Also backed by Paradigm, AI Arena is like a cross between Super Smash Brothers and Axie Infinity. The AI models are tokenized…

African fintech Flutterwave is off the hook in Kenya after the high court allowed the country’s Asset Recovery Agency (ARA), an agency that investigates and recovers proceeds of crime, to withdraw the second (and only remaining) case against the payments company. The case withdrawal brings relief to Flutterwave, which is hoping to acquire a payments service provider and remittances license from the Central Bank of Kenya, which flagged it last year for operating without one. It also comes at a time when Flutterwave is ramping up its efforts to expand into the country. The ARA has withdrawn the case on…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A “squeaker”-like sound pierced the air of a mountain forest in Rwanda. The call came from a “miniature” creature sitting on the forest floor. Scientists found the source of the sound—and discovered a new species. J. Maximilian Dehling ventured into the Nyungwe Forest on several trips between 2010 and 2018, he wrote in a study published Oct. 23 in the journal Diversity. During these surveys, a “very small” frog caught his attention. He found six of these “miniature” frogs and, taking a closer look, discovered a new species: Arthroleptis nyungwensis, or the Nyungwe squeaker frog. The…

A man who urinated on a plane seat in front of his fellow passengers has been convicted and fined. Source link [Featured] [Just In]

Location : The A2 westbound between the junctions with the A2260 and the M25 . Lane Closures : The hard shoulder, lanes 1 and 2 are closed. Reason : Vehicle fire. Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 17:00 and 17:15 on 9 November 2023. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 17:00 and 17:15 on 9 November 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 30 minutes against expected traffic. Lanes Closed : There are two of four lanes closed. Source link

Image Credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock It wasn’t exactly “Denim and Rhinestones” for Carrie Underwood at the 57th annual Country Music Association Awards in Nashville on November 8.  The CMA nominee ended up skipping the annual event despite being nominated for Entertainer of the Year. Fans were eager to see what Carrie would have worn to the red carpet, as she is known for her unique, and outstanding, sense of style. In a 2012 interview, she credited actresses Charlize Theron and Reese Witherspoon with being her style icons. “They are beautiful, but in a natural way,” she told  NFocus magazine at the…

Developers have been increasingly using third-party APIs to build their applications, and depending on the API, the costs can escalate quickly. It’s been challenging for companies to find ways to understand and manage these costs. That’s where Lunar.dev comes in. It’s a tool designed from the ground up to help developers monitor, manage and begin to exercise control over their API bills. Today, the company launched an open source version of the tool, while also announcing a $6 million seed investment. Companies have become reliant on the third party APIs to quickly add functionality to their applications like payments, instant…

The assailants ran from the scene leaving the victim with a punctured lung and cuts to an arm and hands Source link

The Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chip market has been subject to ongoing export restrictions which imposed by the United States from October 2022, which prohibited the sale of certain U.S. products to China. The U.S. initially blocked the export of the highest level of chips produced by companies like Nvidia and AMD. Under the initial October controls the companies were still able to export other models to China, such as Nvidia’s A800 and H800.One year later on Oct. 17, the U.S. government announced an expansion of controls to “reinforce” the previous ones, which meant that all chip models would be embargoed…