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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Voters in the 27 countries of the European Union will elect 720 lawmakers to the European Parliament for the next five years on June 6-9 and are expected to deliver a shift to the right. The parliament has for the past five years been governed by a three-group majority of the centre-right European People's Party, centre-left Socialists and Democrats and liberals of Renew Europe. Together they have steered EU policy, which has included the Green Deal and the EU response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and divided between them top jobs at EU institutions. These are the political groups of the outgoing parliament. The groups of the hard and far right have proved the most fluid, regrouping, renaming and relaunching since the last election. EUROPEAN PEOPLE'S PARTY The centre-right group is the largest in the European Parliament, dominated by German Christian Democrats, with a fair smattering of Poles and Romanians. The group has forged an alliance with the ...

Google is rolling out a new Chromecast with Google TV update with the April 2024 security patch. It follows the last release in early April.  STTE.240315.002 (from STTL.240206.002) brings the Android security patch level to Apr 2024 (from Mar 2024). It is not yet reflected in the changelog. Today's 134MB update slots in-between the previous 72.55MB patch and the 169MB Fast Pair + Audio output switcher release in February. "Other bug fixes and performance improvements" are noted in the release notes. This marks the fourth Chromecast Google TV update in five months — February, March, April, and May, with Google continuing to outpace the 2023 cadence: January, April, May, July, October, December. Since the last update, there's been a number of Chromecast developments. We reported that a 4K Chromecast with Google TV sequel with a new remote is coming, while Google shared at I/O 2024 that the dongle will soon act as ...

On October 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas attack in Israel – newspapers in Pakistan published editorials, expressing support for the attack, criticizing Israeli policies on Palestinians, calling for a "just solution" to the Palestinian issue, and predicting that efforts by Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations to normalize relations with Israel will be paused now. In Pakistan, since the country, which today has nuclear weapons, was created in 1947, public opinion, driven by Islamic antisemitism, has been mostly hostile to Jews and Israel, and recent media reports had expressed concerns that Pakistan could be one of the Islamic states likely to normalize relations with the state of Israel.[1] Soon after the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, the Foreign Office of Pakistan issued a largely neutral statement, calling on "the international community to come together for cessation of hostilities, protection of civilians, and for a lasting peace in the Middle East."[2...

-  Treefrog will present two posters on their cell therapy program in Parkinson's Disease and their proprietary encapsulation technology, C-Stem™ -   BORDEAUX, France , May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TreeFrog Therapeutics has a busy schedule at the ISCT's 30 th annual meeting, taking place in Vancouver, Canada this week, with two posters being presented, one of which has been awarded the Best Poster in the iPSC category. A poster on their transformational encapsulation technology, C-Stem™, will also be presented.  TreeFrog is a cell therapy company with a lead program in Parkinson's disease, a complex neurodegenerative disease with no cure and treatments that offer symptomatic relief only. Decades of research demonstrate that cell therapy holds immense promise for Parkinson's disease, with multiple clinical trials ongoing. However, the manufacturing of these cells must overcome major pharmaceutical challenges, including scalabili...

Webpages of the New York Times, Common Crawl, OpenAI, and Microsoft are seen on a computer. Picture: Shutterstock/Tada Images Celebrity newsbrand People was the fastest-growing news website in the US in March according to Press Gazette's latest ranking. Top 50 most popular news websites in the UK (monthly ranking) Top 50 most popular news websites in the world (monthly ranking) Visits to People.com were up 27% year-on-year to reach 145.7 million, according to data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb. Along with USA Today (143.4 million visits, up 13% year-on-year) and New York Times (498.6 million, up 10%), it was one of three of the top ten websites by number of visits in March to see double-digit growth. Thanks for subscribing. Close In contrast, ...

Here's the latest for Tuesday, May 28th: Fighting escalates in Rafah as Israel pushes ahead with offensive; Prosecution delivers closing arguments in Trump's criminal trial; Storms batter Texas again, leaving more than 1 million without power; Dairy-loving daredevils take part in annual cheese rolling race. Here's the latest for Tuesday, May 28th: Fighting escalates in Rafah as Israel pushes ahead with offensive; Prosecution delivers closing arguments in Trump's criminal trial; Storms batter Texas again, leaving more than 1 million without power; Dairy-loving daredevils take part in annual cheese rolling race. Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   ...

Searching for new treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD), researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center asked ChatGPT whether any existing drugs used for other problems might help patients with AD. ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) program, a so-called large language model (LLM) that's been optimized for chat. Created by San Francisco based OpenAI, Inc., the chatbot has quickly attracted an estimated 180 million users. The team prompted the chatbot to review the biomedical research literature and suggest 20 drugs for AD, ranking them for potential effectiveness. With a second prompt they asked for confirmation of the initial 20 suggestions. They repeated both prompts 10 times. Proceeding with the bot's 10 most frequently suggested drugs, the team analyzed medical records of patients age 65 and older from VUMC and the All of Us Research Program to see whether those exposed to any of the 10 drugs had l...

It is shocking to see that within two weeks after the negative result in Telangana Assembly elections, Namaste Telangana, a daily run by the BRS family, has laid off a significant number of journalists.  For years, there have been numerous allegations that Namaste Telangana earned a substantial amount of money through state government advertisements. Wikipedia itself indicates that the income from government ads in 2017-18 increased by 387.4% compared to the previous year. This trend continued as the authority to serve such extensive ads was in the hands of the BRS government. Additionally, Telangana Today, an English daily, also experienced a growth of 1749.2%, as per some unconfirmed records, during the BRS administration, which was unsurprising given the circumstances. However, with the BRS party losing the election and power, there is now a significant push towards cost-cutting measures. It remains surprising to witness this retrenchment, especially with ...