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Police in the Paul say emergency teams have retrieved the bodies of at least 353 people
“after catastrophic floods gushed through Himalayan River valleys on Monday.”
More than 1300 people remain missing in the Paul and to bed including 65 Americans. Many were Hindu pilgrims as NPR's D.A. Hadid reports." The floods gushed through an area popular with Hindu worshippers who were on a pilgrimage to Circular Sacred Peak known as Mount Kailash. That peak is in Chinese held to bed.
It's largely reached by crossing in from Nepal. One group of some 80 people lost contact while in an immigration building. A spiritual leader known as Sard Goudal shared the news with other worshippers. He posted the video on X. "So this is a terrible and extraordinary event."
The flooding was caused after a glacier collapsed into a river valley. Experts say the Himalayas are warming faster because of human-caused climate change. D.A. Hadid and P.R. News.
“"Tech giant meta is facing sweeping changes to Facebook and Instagram aimed at protecting”
younger users.
The new restrictions are part of the company's multi-billion dollar settlement with nearly
all U.S. states over allegations that its platforms harm children, meta denies wrong doing. NPR's reto-chattergy reports on what teens can expect moving forward." The changes involve both restricting the kind of content kids can see and features that will make their social platforms a lot less addictive.
They will have to give minas the option of having non-personalized feeds where meta does not use an algorithm to through specific content. There will be a default daily time limit of 2 hours for minas. And so meta will have to have a default block on night time use from midnight to 6am and a block on notification to minas both overnight and during school hours when they are in classrooms.
NPR's reto-chattergy reporting.
“It maker NVIDIA is reporting another quarter of record earnings reflecting continued strong”
chipped demand from data centers and PR's Chandra which reports.
The California-based company pulled in 96.2 billion dollars in sales during the quarter
they ended in July. That's more than double what it was last year and beat expectations. Most of that money was made selling chips to data centers that are part of the huge AI buildout underway and the company thinks that will keep rolling. When an earnings call in video chief financial officer said it's seeing demand accelerating
and expects revenue to grow 70% in 2028. The company's share price has been down for the past week but it rose after the announcement popping more than 4% in after hours trading. John Roowich NPR News On Wall Street, the Dow was up 154 points. This is NPR News.
Japan's acclaimed avant-card artist, Yaayoi Kusama, has died at the age of 97. NPR's Anthony Cune report she was known as the queen of polka dots whose painting, sculptures and installations have been displayed around the world. Kusama's foundation said in a statement that she died at Tokyo Hospital on August 14th and kept painting until her final days.
The Kyoto News Agency reports she died of multiple Oregon failure. Since childhood Kusama experienced hallucinations, she saw polka dots flowers and pumpkins which she made sense of by painting them. She created installations where visitors were lost and seemingly endless expanses of shimmering lights, angelating tubes and swirling dots.
She moved to New York in the 1950s and moved in the same artistic circles as Andy Warhol and Georgia O'Keefe. She returned to Japan in the 1970s and chose to live at a psychiatric hospital while painting it in nearby studio. Anthony Cune and PR News sold.
SpaceX is planning to build what it says will be the world's largest space port in southern Louisiana.
The company says it will invest $100 billion in the launch complex.
The facility will be designed to support thousands of Starship launches a year and include its own power and fuel production. SpaceX says the project will create about $3,000 to write jobs over the next decade. Construction is expected to begin next year on the 125,000 acre side along Louisiana's Gulf Coast.
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