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Have you ever heard of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor? As the fifth of the Trans-European Transport Network’s nine priority axes, it is a critical path for the European economy.

It spans from Finland and Sweden in the north to the island of Malta in the south, passing through Denmark, Northern, Central, and Southern Germany, Northern Italy’s industrial areas, and southern Italian ports.

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Access to an online program that provides easily accessible, interactive, tailored healthy lifestyle and behavior change techniques is associated with better health-related quality of life among adult stroke survivors, according to new research from the University of Newcastle and Flinders University.

Stroke can lead to serious consequences for those that survive in terms of physical and cognitive disability. Improving lifestyle and health risk behaviors, including tobacco and alcohol use, physical activity, diet, depression, and anxiety, has the potential to significantly enhance stroke survivors’ quality of life.

Led by Dr. Ashleigh Guillaumier from the University of Newcastle and senior author Professor Billie Bonevski from Flinders University, the study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, undertook a randomized control trial to evaluate the online program Prevent 2nd Stroke (P2S), which encourages users to set goals and monitor progress across various health risk areas.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that the automaker has now more than 100,000 people in its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta program.

Does it mean that we are going to start seeing an accelerated rate of improvement?

FSD Beta has been a “two steps forward, one step back” type of program.

Designed for personal use, the Hill HX50 chopper starts at roughly $648,000.

The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule are scheduled to lift off on Saturday (April 23).

Crew-4’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule were rolled out to Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (April 19) to gear up for a planned launch on Saturday (April 23).

The US government has detailed how North Korean state-sponsored attackers have been hacking cryptocurrency firms using phishing, malware and exploits to steal funds and initiate fraudulent blockchain transactions.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn all businesses in cryptocurrency to watch out for attacks from North Korean state-sponsored hackers.

“Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year (roughly Rs. 22 crore) saved right there,” Musk tweeted while replying to a user’s post criticising the Twitter board.

Nvidia is impressed with the chip making capabilities of NVCell, its AI chip designer. The firm says that it using it, just two GPUs can do nearly the same work that takes ten people a year’s time.

AI brings many benefits but as with any rapidly advancing technology it needs ethical frameworks that protect society, in particular children and young people.