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Masse's production when it counts turning heads heading into NHL

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× × × The 2024 Upper Deck NHL Draft will be held June 28-29 at Circle in Las Vegas. The primary round will be June 28 (7 p.m. ET; ESPN, ESPN+, SN, TVAS) and Rounds 2-7 are June 29 (11:30 a.m. ET; ESPN+, NHLN, SN, SN1). NHL.com is counting down to the draft with inside and out profiles on top possibilities, webcasts and different elements. Today, a profile on traditional Proverb Masse of Chicoutimi in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey Association. NHL.com's full draft inclusion can be viewed as here. Proverb Masse of Chicoutimi of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey Association appears to have a skill for coming up enormous in the grip. The most significant of his 13 game-dominating objectives in his two QMJHL seasons came in 2022-23 against Rimouski, the group he once pull for as a young person. "I experienced childhood in Rimouski and my granddad had season tickets, so he gener

How Kyrie Irving’s antisemitism scandal vanished

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  × × × What number of you recollect when one of the NBA's most popular players shared a narrative guaranteeing that Jews had tricked the world into accepting that they were God's picked individuals, including by manufacturing the Holocaust? Kyrie Irving's advancement of "Jews to Negroes" came around similar time as racist eruptions by Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West, and caused just a generally concise clamor. He was suspended, gave to the Counter Criticism Association, offered more fiery remarks, saw his gift get dismissed, ultimately apologized and got back to the court and afterward months after the fact erased the online entertainment post containing his conciliatory sentiment subsequent to being exchanged from the Brooklyn Nets to Dallas. Presently he's driving the Free thinkers on a season finisher run and worries about his supposed discriminatio

Musk says Google will soon fix ‘racial and gender bias’ issues in Gemini

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    × × × In response to criticism from entrepreneur Elon Musk, Google is undertaking urgent measures to rectify perceived issues of racial and gender bias in its generative AI chatbot and image generator, Gemini. Musk claimed that a senior executive from Google reached out to him, affirming the company’s commitment to addressing the problems promptly. The tech mogul shared this information on his X platform, stating, “He assured me that they are taking immediate action to fix the racial and gender bias in Gemini. Time will tell.” Gemini came under scrutiny for producing what users described as “hallucinating” and historically inaccurate images in response to prompts. The controversy centered around the AI chatbot generating images such as black Vikings, female Popes, and black Founding Fathers. As a result, Google temporarily disabled Gemini’s image generation tool on Thursday. In an offi

China's Comac C919 Airliner Flies at Singapore Airshow

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    × × × The Singapore Airshow – Asia’s largest – kicked off Tuesday with an array of aerial displays including some by China’s COMAC C919 narrow-body airliner. It’s the first time Singapore has opened the event to the public since 2020, when a scaled-down version went ahead as the COVID-19 pandemic was just starting. The biennial show comes as Asia’s aviation sector is taking off following the hard years of the pandemic, when many countries in the region closed their borders to most international travel. Subhas Menon, director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, said that this year’s show was “back in full swing” with over 1,000 exhibitors. “The Singapore Airshow is a good opportunity for exhibitors to show off the direction they’re going, in terms of technology like autonomous vehicles and so forth,” Menon said in an interview Tuesday. He said passenger loads in the reg

Gigantic new snake species discovered in Amazon rainforest

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    × × × Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, rumored to be the biggest in the world. A team from the University of Queensland traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon to search for the previously undocumented northern green anaconda (Eunectes akayima), following an invitation from the Waorani people to observe anacondas “rumoured to be the largest in existence,” according to the scientists. The team joined the hunters on a 10-day expedition to the Bameno region of Baihuaeri Waorani Territory, before paddling down the river system to “find several anacondas lurking in the shallows, lying in wait for prey,” Professor Bryan Fry, a biologist from the University of Queensland, who led the team, said in a statement. Anacondas are giant, non-venomous constricting snakes found in or near water in warm parts of South America. “The size of these magnificent creatu

China’s latest Long March rocket to debut in year of record missions

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    × × × BEIJING: China’s Long March 12, capable of sending bigger satellites with more functionalities into the Earth’s orbit, is expected to make its debut flight in 2024, in a year of record launch missions for the country, state media reported on Monday. Propelled by six liquid oxygen-kerosene-fueled engines, the Long March 12 will be able to transport a payload of 10,000 kg (22,000 pounds) to a low-Earth orbit, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, a subsidiary of China’s main space contractor. That means the Long March 12 would be able to transport half a dozen large communication satellites into orbit on one mission, putting it almost in the same category as the heaviest variant of the Long March 3, which is used to launch the satellites of China’s homegrown BeiDou navigation system. A small-lift rocket carries payloads of up to 2,000 kg, while medium ones deliv

New Zealand set to scrap world-first tobacco ban

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   × × × New Zealand will repeal on Tuesday a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, the government said, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could die as a result. Set to take effect from July, the toughest anti-tobacco rules in the world would have banned sales to those born after Jan. 1, 2009, cut nicotine content in smoked tobacco products and reduced the number of tobacco retailers by more than 90%. The new coalition government elected in October confirmed the repeal will happen on Tuesday as a matter of urgency, enabling it to scrap the law without seeking public comment, in line with previously announced plans. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello said the coalition government was committed to reducing smoking, but was taking a different regulatory approach to discourage the habit and reduce the harm it caused. "I will