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Rome AP  —  Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public remarks about one of the thorniest foreign policy issues facing his new pontificate. History’s first American pope recalled that on Saturday the Catholic Church marked a special feast day to pray for the church in China. Pope Benedict XVI had initiated the feast day as part of his efforts to unify China’s estimated 12 million Catholics who were divided between an official, state-controlled church that didn’t recognize papal authority, and an underground church…

From OpenAI’s 4o to Stable Diffusion, AI foundation models that create realistic images from a text prompt are now plentiful. In contrast, foundation models capable of generating full, coherent 3D online environments from a text prompt are only just emerging. Still, it’s only a question of when, not if, these models will become readily available. Now one of Europe’s most prominent AI 3D model researchers, Matthias Niessner, has taken an entrepreneurial leave of absence from his visual computing & AI lab at the Technical University of Munich to found a startup working in the area: SpAItial.  Formerly a cofounder at…

Pursuing artifact farming routes is a healthy routine that Genshin Impact players need to adopt in order to smoothly survive through the game. This is mainly due to the constant need to collect artifact fodder to level up the 5-star artifacts that you plan to equip on your characters. It’s more often than not that Genshin Impact players are left with a higher ratio of 5-star artifacts than lower-ranked ones due to constant farming. Having fodder on the side can make it easier, and this is especially true for new players entering the game. 11:42 Related Genshin Impact: Liyue Artifact…

Bitcoin markets recently experienced two major liquidation events, causing a cascade of forced selling from over-leveraged traders, but analysts say a distinct pattern has emerged.“Overleveraged short-term traders were flushed out, long-term holders have been quietly capitalizing on the reset,” CryptoQuant analyst Amr Taha said on May 26. They noted the first flush occurred when Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $111,000, and over $97 million in long positions were liquidated. As its price broke $109,000, another $88 million in longs were wiped out in the second wave.However, as short-term traders faced margin calls and forced selling, long-term holders (LTH) responded very differently and…

It’s not your imagination, graduating seniors. The tech industry’s pullback from entry-level hiring has reached concerning levels. LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer, Aneesh Raman, warned in The New York Times last week that “bottom rung of the career ladder” is “breaking” as AI eliminates traditional stepping-stone positions. The numbers are eye-opening: hiring of new grads by the 15 largest tech companies has plummeted over 50% since 2019, according to a report released this month by the venture firm SignalFire, which found that before the pandemic, graduates comprised 15% of Big Tech hires, a figure that has dropped to just 7%. …

CNN  —  Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home on Friday when she went to work in the emergency room at the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. Hours later, the bodies of seven children – most of them badly burned – arrived at the hospital, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. They were Dr. Najjar’s own children, killed in an Israeli airstrike on her family’s home, Gaza Civil Defense said. The bodies of two more of her children – a 7-month-old and a 12-year-old who authorities presume to be dead – remain missing. Only one…

A New York City public school student was detained by federal immigration authorities last week outside a court appearance in his asylum case, two advocates and his lawyers said. Twenty-year-old Dylan — whose last name is being withheld at the family’s request through their lawyers — is a current student at English Language Learners and International Support (ELLIS) Preparatory Academy, an alternative high school in the Bronx for young adults who have lived in the United States for less than one year and are not yet proficient in English. All students at ELLIS Prep are considered “over-age” but under-credited for…

This list contains spoilers! Summary “We’ll pay you back for what you did to us” – Gyutaro to Tengen Uzui, reflects deep-rooted trauma and vengeance. “Until you die, you haven’t lost” – Kaigaku to Zenitsu, reveal his twisted survivalist mindset which justifies his selfishness. “I truly believe that humans are pathetic” – Doma to Inosuke, reveals that he viewers humans as animals to be slaughtered. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba recounts the captivating story of an endless battle between the forces of good and evil. As important as the characters fighting for the greater good are, they wouldn’t have been…

Dubai has launched the first licensed tokenized real estate project in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, previewing appetite for real-world tokenization in one of the world’s burgeoning crypto hubs.Partners in the project include the Dubai Land Department (DLD), the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, and the Dubai Future Foundation, according to an announcement from the Dubai government. The tokens will be tradeable on the newly launched “Prypco Mint” platform, with Zand Digital Bank appointed as the bank for the project’s pilot phase.On May 19, Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) updated its rules to include…

CNN  —  Firefighters in Germany had to use hydraulic equipment to free a man who got stuck under a train armrest while searching for a dropped AirPod. Emergency services were called to Lehrte station in north-central Germany on Friday evening following reports that a passenger was trapped, the local fire department said in a statement published Saturday. “What initially looked like a fairly simple rescue then developed into a complex rescue operation, however, as the person’s hand had swollen so much in the meantime that it could no longer be freed using simple rescue equipment,” it said. Firefighters had to…