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Czechia is moving towards building an AI Gigafactory
CEENERGYNEWS
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August 18, 2025
Czechia has taken another step toward the European AI Gigafactory (AIGF) initiative, holding the first official meeting to prepare a plan for building large-scale infrastructure to train and deploy extremely large AI models. The AI Gigafactory...
Photo Essay: The Intriguing Soviet-Era Prague Metro System
Live and Let's Fly - California
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August 18, 2025
If you enjoy Cold War history, a ride on the Prague metro system is a must, a public transit network exposing lingering traces of the Communist era. Though it had been planned since 1898, construction on the Prague metro system began in the 1960s...
Lucy’s 3-million-year-old skeleton exhibition in Prague!
European Interest
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August 18, 2025
On 15 August, a plane arrived in Prague carrying fossils of human ancestors over three million years old. This remarkable collection includes the fossils of Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarensis, and Selam, a child of the same species. These...
Matt DeFrain rejoins MorganFranklin Cyber to head healthcare and life sciences
Consultancy.org
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August 18, 2025
Matt DeFrain has rejoined MorganFranklin Cyber, a Charlotte, NC-based cybersecurity consulting and managed services firm, as managing director of the healthcare, pharma, and life sciences sector. “We are thrilled to welcome Matt DeFrain back to...
Czech-mate: SA needs its own ‘One China’ Policy
Politicsweb
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August 17, 2025
Monday, 18 August 2025 18/08/25 OPINION Czech-mate: SA needs its own ‘One China’ Policy Ray Hartley & Greg Mills | 17 August 2025 Ray Hartley & Greg Mills says there is no need for SA to perpetually bend the knee to the PRC The Czech Republic has...
Roger Waters’ remarkable <em>This is Not a Drill: Live from Prague </em>concert film: A warning and call to action
World Socialist Web Site
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August 18, 2025
Cover of This is Not a Drill: Live from Prague The recent release of Roger Waters’ “This Is Not a Drill: Live from Prague—The Movie,” provides an opportunity for music fans around the world who did not attend one of the concerts in 2022 and 2023...
Czech news in brief for August 17: Sunday's top headlines
Expats.cz
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August 17, 2025
The latest STEM poll for the upcoming Czech parliamentary election shows opposition ANO party leading with 32.2 percent support, followed by the governing Together coalition at 20.1 percent and SPD at 12.1 percent. STAN polls at 10.8 percent and...
Meet Lucy: 3.18-Million-Year-Old Human Fossil Arrives in Prague
Prague Morning
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August 17, 2025
For the first time ever, one of the world’s most famous fossils arrived in Europe. Prague’s National Museum will showcase two of the world’s most famous human ancestor fossils. Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, and...
Czech top officials: Alaska meeting shows Putin is not seeking peace
Radio Prague International
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August 16, 2025
Friday’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly shows that while the United States and its allies are seeking ways to achieve peace in Ukraine, President Putin is striving for maximum territorial...
Czech top officials: Alaska meeting show Putin is not seeking peace
Radio Prague International
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August 16, 2025
Friday’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly show that while the United States and its allies are seeking ways to achieve peace in Ukraine, President Putin is striving for maximum territorial...
Czech Police Detain Convicted Criminal Linked To $45 Million Bitcoin Donation Scandal
Bitcoinist
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August 16, 2025
Czech authorities have announced the arrest of a convicted criminal related to the $45 million Bitcoin scandal that sent shockwaves through the country’s political landscape earlier this year. On Friday, Czech media outlets revealed that Tomáš...
No Way Home
Transitions
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August 18, 2025
Prague residents struggle as ever-rising rents, population growth make the decades’-long housing shortage even worse. Vilem Smejkal, an art student at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, faces the possibility of leaving the...
Czech Tour: Junior Lecerf wins stage 2 summit finish to move into race lead
Cyclingnews
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August 15, 2025
22-year-old Junior Lecerf has taken a second victory in as many days for Soudal-QuickStep in the Czech Tour, cleverly profiting from all the hard work by Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma-Lease a Bike) on the final category 1 climb of Dlouhé Straně to...
Scientists Uncover Mysterious “Oases” on the Drying Shores of the Great Salt Lake
SciTechDaily
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August 15, 2025
As the Great Salt Lake shrinks, scientists are uncovering curious phragmites-covered mounds that hint at a hidden freshwater plumbing system beneath the lakebed. Using piezometers and airborne electromagnetic surveys, researchers are mapping vast...
Blast at Czech Chemical Plant Injures Three
MENAFN
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August 16, 2025
(MENAFN) An explosion at the Synthesia chemical facility in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on Friday afternoon resulted in three people being injured, two of whom are in critical condition. Media, citing an ambulance service spokesperson, reported...
Summertime Czechast: Karel Čapek’s 1930s take on “Changing Times” — now in English
Radio Prague International
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August 14, 2025
This episode of Czechast, the podcast in English about all things Czech, is a little different. In the spirit of summer, I decided to set aside our regular interviews and instead read a short story by Karel Čapek, written and published in the...
Czech Republic to advance high-speed train travel with EIB advisory support
The European Sting
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August 14, 2025
(Credit: Unsplash) This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. EIB to advise Czech railway infrastructure manager Správa železnic on three major projects including the rail link to Prague airport and high-speed...
TESCAN Group unveil two software innovations at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) conference
LabBulletin
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August 18, 2025
publication date: Aug 18, 2025 | author/source: TESCAN Group These launches reflect TESCAN’s ongoing shift toward a more integrated approach, combining advanced technology, workflow-driven solutions, expert support, and a community built on shared...
Comments Invited for New ISO Research Standard
MrWeb
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August 15 2025 International standards body the ISO has released a draft revision of its ISO 20252 standard for public comment by the worldwide research, insights and analytics community. ISO Technical Committee 225 (TC225), which is comprised of...
Oy, AI, AI
Jewish Press of Tampa Bay Florida’s Gulf Coast
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August 18, 2025
Sixty years ago, the foremost authority on Jewish mysticism or kabbalah, Gershom Scholem, heard that the Weitzmann Institute of Science built a groundbreaking computer that would revolutionize Israel’s high-tech industry. Speaking to its creator,...