Alfie Habershon
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Global News Podcast
Trump announces multi-billion dollar AI programme
When I started playing the piano, I was hoping to play smooth renditions of Mozart or Beethoven, and perhaps after trying classical, I would turn my attention to jazz. Of course, things were different in reality. My fingers lagged behind and my teacher was disappointed, but I probably wouldn't have given up so soon if I'd had these.
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Trump announces multi-billion dollar AI programme
Robotic gloves made in Japan by Sony Computer Science Labs and the Neuro Piano Institute. They have a sci-fi skeletal type look and strap onto the hand with small mechanisms that hammer down between the knuckles. When worn, they help the player's fingers to move faster across the keyboard. Here's someone playing without the gloves. And now the same person playing with them.
Global News Podcast
Trump announces multi-billion dollar AI programme
But what's really impressive here is that once you take the gloves off, you continue to play at a faster speed than before. Here's Dr Shinichi Furoya, who led the research.
Global News Podcast
Trump announces multi-billion dollar AI programme
Another way the creators demonstrated this was by showing that wearing the glove on one hand still makes both hands play faster. The invention also isn't just for beginners like myself. Previous research says that musicians often hit a mental block in their ability, but the glove can be used to help them overcome this.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
Secret Filming showed bribery to be an endemic problem, including footage of FIFA's number two in African football, the president of the Ghanaian Football Association, Kwezi Niantachi, accepting $65,000. He was suspended as a result, along with more than 70 referees. But many refused to believe the film, directing their anger back at Anas.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
Danean-Politiker Kennedy Agiepong hat ihn später als Kriminal genannt und ihn getötet.
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Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks
The journalist took him to trial for defamation in Ghana, but lost. But now he has been successful at a second attempt in a US court, where the politician owns property. He's been awarded 18 million dollars, but says the victory is about much more than that.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
As smartphones become faster and more powerful, a lot of people's cupboards become full of wires they no longer need. The iPhone has already been through three different types of charges, and that's not to mention all the other phones on the market. They might need a USB-A, a USB-B, a USB-3, the mini USB, or even the micro USB. But for Europeans, it might be about to get a bit less confusing.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
A new law says that from Saturday, all phones, tablets and earphones sold in the EU will have to work with just one type of charger, the USB-C. And EU's rapporteur, Alexa Giussoliba, says it's not just about making life easier.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
As living costs rise all over the continent, Europe says being able to stick with the same charger will make households a quarter of a billion euros richer.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
The new law even says that laptops will be expected to follow by 2026, but it has taken two years to get it passed, with Apple being the main barrier in the EU's way, complaining that it would block innovation before then giving in last year, and is now no longer selling the iPhone 14 and SE in Europe because they use a different type of charger.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
It seemed like a normal home video when the YouTube co-founder Javed Karim spoke to the camera in front of a pair of elephants in San Diego. But what it really meant is for the first time anyone, anywhere could film something and the whole world could watch it. A year later, Google bought YouTube for more than a billion dollars and introduced a new rule.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
The more views you get, the more cash you make. And teenagers filming in their basements became rich overnight. That's Baby Shark Dance, showing kids making chomping gestures with a cartoon sea background. It's been viewed 15 billion times, earning its Korean creator, Kim Min-suk, about $30 million. And it does seem to be the bizarre videos that do the best. Just take the keyboard cat.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
At the time, he had dropped out of college to be a YouTuber and was living in his car. Now he's a billionaire. And today there's a new generation who want to be just like him. If only they could find the next big idea.
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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
The war on drugs has failed, were the words of the elected left-wing president Gustavo Petro in 2022. And he would know, of course, having been an armed rebel himself before moving into politics. A big part of his bold new vision was to target the key ingredient of cocaine, the coca plant, by giving farmers who grow it better ways to make money. So why is it not working?
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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
Sergio Guzman is director of the Colombia Risk Analysis Organization.
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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
President Petro also invited rebel groups and drug cartels to drop their weapons and join the government round the negotiating table in favour of less violence. But it has not stopped them from threatening farmers to grow coca.
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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
The president maintains that the overwhelming global demand for cocaine makes his job more complicated, and that his plan to tackle inequality is a long-term one. The question is whether Colombians will give him a second term to prove it, as optimism begins to fade over whether the country can ever tackle this problem.