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US President Joe Biden’s state visit to Germany on Friday was extremely brief. But the US president used every minute in Berlin to try to make clear that he still has big ambitions on the world stage, these last weeks before he leaves office in January. Especially in the Middle East and Ukraine.European defence has been a cornerstone of Biden’s foreign policy – a stark contrast to that of his predecessor, Donald Trump, now a 2024 presidential hopeful.In recognition of his efforts, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded Biden his country’s highest honour, the special class of the Grand Cross.The conflict…

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -Twice since July 2022, Moninder Singh, spokesperson for a Sikh advocacy group in Canada’s British Columbia province, has had police come to his door in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey. Twice, Singh said, they warned him that he faced an imminent risk of assassination, though they did not say from whom. These warnings forced the 43-year-old Canadian to stay away from his home for months at a time, he said – away from his wife and children, ages 15 and 11. “India has gotten away with so much over the years and under Modi’s…

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A crypto trader argued that it is easy for crypto market participants to be “convinced sentiment is one way or the other,” while claiming that the sentiment is not “that bullish currently.”

Hello everyone! My name is Mihajlo, and over the past six months as part of my Next Billion Fellowship, I’ve been working to bring the benefits of Web3 to the World Scouting Movement. Growing up in Serbia in the ’90s, I experienced firsthand the devastating effects that wars and sanctions can have on young people. There weren’t a lot of opportunities to find good role models or supportive peers. In that sort of environment, it’s easy for youth to become caught up in gangs or criminal activity. I would say it’s because of technology and the scouting movement that I…

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When it comes to securing your cryptocurrency, choosing the right wallet is crucial — just as important as protecting cash in a physical wallet. Two of the most common types are hardware and software wallets, each offering unique benefits and drawbacks. Let’s dive into their key differences to help you choose the best crypto wallet. Hardware Wallet: Key Characteristics and Operating Principles A hardware wallet (HW) is a physical device, often resembling a USB drive, that stores your private keys offline. This makes it highly resistant to hacking since it isn’t connected to the Internet when not in use. How…

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One of the primary challenges in developing advanced text-to-speech (TTS) systems is the lack of expressivity when transcribing and generating speech. Traditionally, large language models (LLMs) used for building TTS pipelines convert speech to text using automatic speech recognition (ASR), process it using an LLM, and then convert the output back to speech via TTS. However, this approach often leads to a loss in expressive quality, as nuances such as tone, emotion, and pitch are stripped away during the ASR process. As a result, the synthesized speech tends to sound monotonic or unnatural, unable to adequately convey emotions like excitement,…

Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “USDoD,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached. The Brazilian news outlet TV Globo first reported the news of USDoD’s arrest, saying the Federal Police arrested a 33-year-old man from Belo…