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For the first time in history, cannabis has surpassed alcohol as Americans' daily drug of choice.In 2022 there were 17.7 million people who reported using cannabis every day or almost every day, compared to 14.7 million who reported using alcohol with the same frequency, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Addiction that analyzed data from the United States. National survey on drug use and health.Although many more people drink than use cannabis, frequent use has become slightly less common than it was about 15 years ago, the study found. But the percentage of people in the United States who frequently use cannabis increased 15-fold in the three decades after 1992, when daily cannabis use hit its lowest point.The legalization of cannabis has also accelerated rapid...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI said Sunday it has raised $6 billion, helping close the funding gap with OpenAI, Anthropic and other rivals in the red-hot sector.The funds would be used "to bring xAI's first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate research and development of future technologies," the company said in a statement.Musk, who founded xAI in July, said in a social media post that the funding round valued the company at $18 billion, not including new money. Investors included Silicon Valley heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, along with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia.Investors and big tech companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft have poured billions into companies developing artificial intelligence ...

With growing international condemnation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the killing of dozens of people a day earlier at a camp for Palestinian displaced people in Rafah was "a tragic accident," but gave no sign of wanting to slow down the Israeli offensive in the area. southern city of Gaza.The deadly fire that ravaged the camp on Sunday after an airstrike came at a particularly sensitive time for Israel, just days after the International Court of Justice appeared to order the country's army to halt the offensive in Rafah and as diplomats aimed to restart negotiations. for a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.The Israeli military said the target of Sunday's attack in Rafah was a Hamas compound and that "precise munitions" had been used to hi...

On Kenya's stunning coast, halfway between 15th-century ruins and the bustling city of Mombasa, a small factory is helping achieve one of Africa's greatest health goals: self-sufficiency.With fewer than 700 employees, Revital Healthcare produces 300 million syringes a year, enough to meet more than half of Africa's routine immunization needs.In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, when governments found themselves having to vaccinate millions of people under severe shortages, Revital shipped syringes to Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan – and even sent 15 million syringes to India, said Roneek Vora, the company's director of sales and marketing.“This is the first time in the lifetime of Africa that a medical industry is exporting syringes to India...

Queues for the show snake down the block, with people waiting up to seven hours to buy tickets at the theater in central Kiev. Videos of the performance have attracted millions of views online.The Big Hit is not a popular Broadway musical or a pop star's concert series: It's a play based on a classic 19th-century Ukrainian novel, "The Witch of Konotop," and the atmosphere is anything but How optimistic. Consider the opening line: “It's sad and dark.”Mykhailo Matiukhin, an actor in the production, said this is what struck Ukrainians because it shows "what we are experiencing now."“Tragedy comes and takes everything away from you, your love and your home,” he said.The play dramatizes the story of a Cossack leader in a nearly 400-year-old Ukrainian community as he tries to eradi...

A one-man startup believes it has an answer to the US government's concerns about Chinese-made drones dominating commercial sales in the American market.The CEO and founding partners of Anzu Robotics are all Americans, and the company is headquartered in Texas. The company's drones, which are expected to be used by law enforcement, utilities, architects and others, are assembled in Malaysia and run on servers located in Virginia.There's just one problem: Anzu has multiple, close ties to China and to DJI, the Shenzhen-based company targeted by legislative and regulatory efforts to curb Chinese drone sales in the United States.About half of Anzu's parts come from China. Much of its software originated there. Anzu has licensed its drone design to DJI, which receives payment...

Tesbih, asırlardır insanların ruhani bir bağ kurduğu, anlam yüklü bir objedir. Vovoyo, bu anlamı ve ruhu taşıyan özel tasarımlarıyla tesbih severlerin gözdesi haline gelmiştir. Erzurum Oltu Tesbih, Gümüş Tesbih ve Ağaç Tesbih gibi ürünler, Vovoyo'nun özgün tasarım anlayışını ve kalite odaklı hizmetini yansıtmaktadır. Erzurum Oltu Tesbih: Doğanın İncisi Erzurum'un eşsiz doğasının yansıması olan Erzurum Oltu Tesbih, doğal taşın zarafetini ve anlamını taşıyan özel bir üründür. Vovoyo'nun titiz seçimi ve ustaca işçiliğiyle her bir tesbih, doğanın incisini yansıtır. Gümüş Tesbih: Zarafet ve Şıklığın Sembolü Gümüş Tesbih, zarafet ve şıklığın tam bir temsilcisidir. Vovoyo'nun özel tasarımı ve kaliteli malzemesiyle şekillenen bu tesbihler, kullanıcılarına estetik bir deneyim sunar. ...

Eyal Ben-Ari tugged at the heavy assault rifle hanging over his shoulder as he tiptoed out of his pink house at sunrise, hoping not to wake his wife or six children.Walking to synagogue in Safed, a hill town above the Sea of Galilee known for centuries as a center of kabbalah, or ancient Jewish mysticism, he said he still didn’t feel great about the gun.Sleeping with the rifle under his pillow, he worried about it being stolen. After his 13-year-old son came home with a toy replica, Mr. Ben-Ari considered returning the real thing, doubting his decision to join the newly formed civilian militia that had given him the weapon.“I feel like it’s very — artificial,” he said, struggling to find the right word in English, looking down at the gun. “It’s not human. It’s not life.”At the synagogue, m...

Günümüzde işletmelerin dijital dünyada var olması ve rekabet ortamında öne çıkması için kurumsal kimlik tasarımı büyük bir önem taşımaktadır. Kurumsal kimlik, bir işletmenin görsel ve sözel iletişim araçlarını kullanarak kendini ifade etmesini sağlayan bir yapıdır. Bu kimlik, işletmenin değerlerini, hedeflerini ve vizyonunu yansıtarak müşterilere güven verir ve marka imajını güçlendirir. İşte tam da bu noktada, Kurumsal Kimlik Tasarımı konusunda uzmanlaşmış firmalardan destek almak önem kazanır. Box Bilişim, 2007 yılından bu yana kurumsal kimlik tasarımı ve dijital pazarlama alanında sunduğu profesyonel hizmetlerle işletmelere güç katmaktadır. Antalya merkezli olan ve geniş bir perspektifte hizmet veren Box Bilişim, grafik tasarım, video edit, sosyal medya yönetimi, ürün çekimi, mobil u...

Unpasteurized milk contaminated with the H5N1 virus, the avian flu virus that has appeared on dairy farms in nine states, was found to make mice rapidly sick, affecting multiple organs, according to a study released Friday.The findings aren't entirely surprising: At least half a dozen cats have died after consuming raw milk containing the virus. But new data confirms that virus-laden raw milk may not be safe for other mammals, including humans.“Don't drink raw milk: That's the message,” said Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the study.Most commercial milk in the United States is pasteurized. The Food and Drug Administration found traces of the virus in 20% of dairy products sampled from supermarket shelves nationwide. Officials ...