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Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech : Arm transitions to a comprehensive 64-bit platform with new mobile CPU core designs Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520, built on its Armv9.2 architecture   —  Throughout the world, if there's one universal constant in the smartphone and mobile device market, it's Arm. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/z3u1siO

China's space program has made strides in recent years as a new space race heats up. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Chinese officials said the country would land astronauts on the moon by 2030. Humans haven't set foot on the moon in more than five decades.  NASA plans to launch a lunar mission by 2025.  Chinese officials on Monday announced plans to send astronauts to the moon by 2030, per the Associated Press and The New York Times .  Humans have not set foot on the moon since NASA's final Apollo mission in 1972. Now both the US and China are planning new lunar missions. China has mentioned the prospect of a lunar mission by 2030 but never confirmed it in an official capacity, The New York Times reported.  An official confirmed the plans at a news conference for an upcoming flight transporting astronauts to China's space station. China has beefed up its space program in recent years, completing a space station late last year and subsequently sending astrona...

Rebecca Feng / Wall Street Journal : Analysts and others say Wind Information, described as a Chinese alternative to Bloomberg terminal, is limiting international users' access to some information   —  E-commerce shopping trends, satellite images are no longer available to foreign users of Wind from Techmeme https://ift.tt/7w9xbhl

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu. WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty Images NH Gov. Sununu said declared GOP WH candidates should be going after Trump, per The New York Times. "Any Republican that isn't hitting Donald Trump hard right now is doing the entire party a disservice," he said. Sununu, now in his fourth term as governor, is considering jumping into the presidential race. New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is still mulling jumping into the presidential race but sternly warned declared candidates who have yet to aggressively target former President Donald Trump to shift their gears. "All Republicans have to be hitting Donald Trump," Sununu told The New York Times. "Any Republican that isn't hitting Donald Trump hard right now is doing the entire party a disservice because if only one or two people are willing to take a shot at Donald Trump, it looks personal. It looks petty." The governor, who in November 2022 was elected to hi...

Pre-rolled joints are displayed alongside marijuana paraphernalia. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images New York City teachers say children are increasingly coming to school high, per The New York Times. In 2021, New York State legalized recreational marijuana, a longstanding goal of many lawmakers. But the proliferation of unlicensed smoke shops has become a major issue among city officials. An increasing number of students are showing up to class high, and in many cases late, which in turn has created discord in public, private, and charter school classrooms, according to teachers who spoke to The New York Times. While there is no absolute data on marijuana usage among schoolchildren, data from the New York City Department of Education showed a 10% increase in the number of drug and alcohol-related offenses in 2023 compared to figures from 2019, The Times reported.  In 2021, New York State legalized recreational marijuana, with much of the tax revenue set to be directed towa...

The children of Nguyet Le, who died while working at a Louisiana Arby's earlier this month, are suing for negligence. Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com The children of a woman who died in a Louisiana Arby's earlier this month are suing for negligence. The lawsuit claims Nguyet Le died because a broken freezer latch caused her to be locked inside while alone in the restaurant. The suit also alleges multiple managers were aware the latch had been broken for at least nine months before Le's death. The family of a woman who died earlier this month after she was locked in a freezer in a Louisiana Arby's is suing the restaurant chain and the store's franchise owners for negligence and wrongful death. Local police confirmed to Insider's Grace Mayer earlier this month that a woman later identified as 63-year-old Nguyet Le was found dead in the freezer of an Arby's in New Iberia, Louisiana. The lawsuit — filed Thursday by Le's four children in the dis...

White Bison Mark Newman/GettyImages A rare "one-in-ten-billion" albino white bison was born in a Wyoming state park on Tuesday. White bison are considered sacred to some Native Americans, according to the Native American College Fund. Bear River Park Superintendent Tyfani Sager said that the calf is small but doing well, Cowboy State Daily reported. A bison named Wyoming Hope gave birth to a rare, "one-in-ten-million" albino white bison on Tuesday in a Wyoming state park. The buffalo was born at Bear River State Park around 6:30 p.m., according to Cowboy State Daily, a statewide non-profit news organization in Wyoming. The baby weighs around 30 pounds, according to the outlet. Park Superintendent Tyfani Sager told the outlet the bison is small, but doing well. Sager said the park has not determined the sex of the bison yet, and that tourist traffic has been up at the park since its birth on Tuesday. "We're not sure if it's a bull calf or ...