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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The International Olympic Committee was effusive Wednesday in its support for a decadeslong effort to bring back the Winter Games to Utah’s capital city in 2034.

Unlike so many other past hosts that have decided bringing back the Games isn’t worth the time, money or hassle, Salt Lake City remains one of the few places where Olympic fever still burns strong. Olympic officials praised the city for preserving facilities and public enthusiasm as they kicked off their final visit ahead of a formal announcement expected this July.

Reminders of the…

Multiple posts on social media falsely claim a video shows hundreds of birds that were supposedly killed by severe temperatures of -52°C in Xinjiang, China. 

In fact, the footage comes from South Dakota in the US. 

The video seemingly shows hundreds of dead birds frozen to the surface of an expanse of water. 

It has been shared on both X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook with the caption: “Today, temperatures in Xinjiang, China dropped 45° [sic] almost instantly to a low of -52℃ (-61.6℉), kiIIing hundreds of waterfowl. Will they blame this on global warming?” 

While temperatures in Xinjiang, in the north west of China, were reported to have reached -52°C in recent days, the video does not show scenes from this region. 

The video was first shared by an

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Quick Custom Intelligence (QCI) and Leech Lake Gaming are excited to announce a 3-year strategic partnership that promises to revolutionize the gaming and hospitality industry in the northern Minnesota market. This strategic alliance sets the stage for an exciting fusion of technology and hospitality, with Leech Lake Gaming at the forefront. The software deployment phase has been successfully completed, and Leech Lake Gaming’s dedicated host team is currently undergoing intensive training.

The comprehensive software deployment has been finalized, and Leech Lake Gaming’s dedicated team is actively engaged in training sessions, gearing up for an official launch scheduled for mid-December. This state-of-the-art platform is poised to elevate…

Intel is laser-focused on improving its graphics technology of late. Not only has the company re-entered the graphics card market for the first time in more than 20 years, with its Intel Arc “Alchemist” family of discrete graphics cards, but Intel has also pressed its on-CPU integrated graphics processor (IGP) tech harder than ever. Now, the big chip maker has revealed that it is putting much of that graphics innovation surrounding Arc to work in its upcoming “Meteor Lake” processors. (See our larger explainer for an architectural overview of what’s new with the coming Meteor Lake chips.)

Though these new chips have not been explicitly broken out, part by part, in detail just yet, the assumption is that they will arrive first as mobile processors for laptops. A launch date for the…