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547 сюжетовРоссия закрыла больницу на карантин: после смерти сотрудницы лаборатории почти 200 человек под наблюдением
Сотрудница Иркутского противочумного института Сибири и Дальнего Востока умерла на прошлой неделе от пневмонии неизвестной этиологии, сообщили российские власти, а больница в городе Шелехов была закрыта на карантин. Чиновники и российские С…
SpaceX seeks $40 billion in borrowing to buy Nvidia chips, FT reports
SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40 billion to fund a purchase of Nvidia chips, according to a Financial Times report cited by Reuters and MarketWatch. Bloomberg said it understands the financing would be among the biggest-ever debt financings…
Apple and LG co-develop smart home devices including doorbell, lock and thermostat
Bloomberg reports that Apple and LG have co-developed a line of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, smart deadbolt lock, indoor and outdoor security cameras and a floodlight camera. The products are expected to carry…
Trump signs order allowing tax-free red-dyed diesel on highways
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday temporarily allowing off-road red-dyed diesel to be used for highway driving and deferring the federal excise tax on that fuel through the end of 2026 without interest or penalties.…
AMD's Lisa Su visits Korea, agrees AI chip cooperation with local firms
AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su visited Korea on Oct. 7, about seven months after her March trip, meeting Second Vice Minister Ryu Je-myeong of the Science and ICT Ministry and a roundtable of Korean AI semiconductor and infrastructure companies.…
Число случаев кори в Пенсильвании превысило 1 000, крупнейшая вспышка в штате за десятилетия
Департамент здравоохранения штата сообщил в понедельник, что в Пенсильвании в 2026 году зарегистрировано 1 004 случая кори, включая как минимум 198 госпитализаций и пять смертей. Представители здравоохранения штата говорят, что это крупнейш…
Defense minister: arts, sports military service exemption to be cut and abolished
South Korea's defense minister said on Oct 7 that the goal is to gradually reduce the arts and sports military service exemption and ultimately abolish it, after controversy over remarks by Asian Games football gold medallists about the exe…
Abu Dhabi's AI Everything opens with 400 exhibitors alongside Global Food Week
AI Everything 2026 opened on 6 October at the ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi and runs to 7 October, with WAM reporting 400 exhibitors and 180 speakers, and Economy Middle East reporting more than 400 companies, 200-plus investors managing about $10…
Hoban Construction develops AI design tech to auto-apply per-unit buyer options
Hoban Construction said it developed AI-based design technology that automatically reflects apartment buyers’ option contract choices in each unit’s building information model (BIM). The technology was developed jointly with building and in…
Сотрудница российской противочумной лаборатории умерла; США и ЕС заявляют, что следят за ситуацией
28-летняя сотрудница Иркутского научно-исследовательского противочумного института в Шелехове (Россия) умерла после того, как у нее диагностировали пневмонию неизвестной этиологии, сообщила государственная служба Роспотребнадзор. Около 200 …
South Korea unveils 1,000 trillion won green transition plan to 2035
South Korea announced a “Korean-style Green Transition” (K-GX) strategy on Oct 7, pledging about 1,000 trillion won over ten years to 2035 — 200 trillion won in fiscal support and more than 790 trillion won in climate finance through five p…
Кения подтвердила первую смерть от Эболы после прибытия пациента из Конго через Уганду
Министерство здравоохранения Кении во вторник подтвердило первый в стране завозной случай Эболы: гражданин Кении, прибывший из Демократической Республики Конго через Уганду, проходил лечение в больнице Найроби и скончался поздно вечером в п…
WHO and Russia say no further plague infections after Siberian lab worker's death
A female worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died last week from pneumonia of undetermined origin, according to Russian authorities and the WHO. Russia's Rospotrebnadzor said 60% of the identified contact…
Nuri declared a success on fifth flight; five cluster satellites make contact
South Korea's Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. from the Naro Space Center in Goheung and the Korea Aerospace Administration declared the fifth flight a success, saying all 15 satellites were placed in orbit. Officials said 14 of the 15 …
ВОЗ заявляет о низком риске, пока США требуют от России прозрачности в связи со смертью сотрудника чумной лаборатории
Государственный департамент США следит за сообщениями о смертельном случае с подозрением на легочную чуму в Иркутской области России, и госсекретарь Марко Рубио публично призвал Москву к большей прозрачности в связи со смертью 28-летней сот…
South Korea's Lee orders CPTPP talks restarted from the beginning amid farm concerns
President Lee Jae-myung instructed at a cabinet meeting on Oct 6 that the government should not fix a conclusion on joining the CPTPP and should “restart dialogue from the beginning,” saying the pact's strategic value is cited alongside ver…
MFDS approves Hanmi's EPPE, Korea's first homegrown GLP-1 obesity drug
Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved Hanmi Pharmaceutical's EPPE auto-injector (efpeglenatide) on Oct 7, the first domestically developed GLP-1 obesity drug and the country's 45th homegrown new drug. The injectable is indicated…
Nuri rocket completes fifth launch, placing satellites in orbit
South Korea’s Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. local time on Oct 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying 15 satellites, the most in its history, and placed the five main ultra-small cluster satellites in their target orbit. Ne…
Apple and LG Electronics jointly develop smart home devices under LG brand
Apple and LG Electronics are jointly developing smart home devices — a camera-equipped video doorbell, a smart door lock, a security camera and a smart temperature sensor and thermostat — to be sold under the LG brand, according to Bloomber…
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, open-weight model to rival Chinese models
Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that the New York-based startup says matches leading Chinese open models like Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 at lower compute cost. The Nvidia-backed company says Beam is in final sa…