Iran Offering Monthly Payments to Citizens to Cool Protests

Facing protests sparked by a deepening economic crisis, Iran’s government announced plans on Monday to provide most citizens with a monthly payment equivalent to around seven dollars. The plan, according to the government spokeswoman, Fatameh Mohajerani, is aimed at “preserving households’ purchasing power, controlling inflation, and ensuring food security.” But it will likely do little…

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NBCUniversal, AWS, Adobe & WPP Execs On Balancing AI Ad Innovation With IP Protection

Senior execs from NBCUniversal, Amazon‘s AWS, Adobe and ad agency WPP discussed the tricky balance between embracing AI and safeguarding IP during a panel discussion Monday at CES. “We’ve been talking about personalization for decades,” said Hannah Elsakr, VP of GenAI New Business Ventures at Adobe. To that point, she continued, “Nobody wants to see…

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First maps of the sun’s outer boundary may help predict solar storms

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish. That’s what scientists have gleaned from the first verified maps of the shifting boundary between the sun and the rest of the solar system. “The structure is basically this kind of corrugated, spiky shape,” says heliophysicist Sam Badman. As the sun gets more active, the boundary gets larger and spikier, Badman and…

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