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It’s common knowledge that exercise is good for your mental health and your heart health — and now a new study suggests that all three are working together. In addition to the physical benefits of exercise, it’s also associated with a reduction in stress signals in the brain, which leads to a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, according to the study. Researchers analyzed data of more than 50,000 adults around age 60 from the Mass General Brigham Biobank, according to the study published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The study looked at a survey that participants were given about their physical…

The Biden administration will award up to $6.4 billion in grants to South Korea’s Samsung Electronics to expand its chip production in central Texas as part of a broader effort to boost US chipmaking, the Department of Commerce said on Monday. The funding from the 2022 Chips and Science Act will support two chip production facilities, a research center and a packaging facility, in Taylor, Texas, the agency said, as previously reported by Reuters. It will also enable Samsung to expand its Austin, Texas, semiconductor facility, Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo added, while boosting chip output for the aerospace, defense and auto industries and…

Eight years ago, when North Carolina tried regulate how transgender people use public bathrooms, Corporate America revolted. PayPal scrapped a planned expansion of one of its operations in the state. Musicians canceled performances. And the NCAA said it wouldn’t let North Carolina host championships while the law was on the books. All in, the boycott cost the state’s economy around $4 billion, according to an analysis by the Associated Press, which noted its tally was likely an underestimation. Lately, though, Corporate America doesn’t have the same stomach for a culture war. Last year, at least 510 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in US state…

Meta’s Oversight Board is set to evaluate the company’s handling of deepfake pornography amid growing concerns that artificial intelligence is fueling a rise in the creation of fake, explicit imagery as a form of harassment. The Oversight Board said Tuesday that it will review how Meta addressed two explicit, AI-generated images of female public figures, one from the United States and one from India, to assess whether the company has appropriate policies and practices in place to address such content — and whether it is enforcing those policies consistently around the world. The threat of AI-generated pornography has gained attention in recent…

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the movie set weapons handler who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before it fired and killed a cinematographer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. The armourer, 26, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March. She was found not guilty of a second charge – tampering with evidence – over the 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. The sentence Gutierrez-Reed received is the maximum possible. Mr Baldwin, 65, also faces a manslaughter trial in July. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, who handed down the…

The creation of sexually explicit “deepfake” images is to be made a criminal offence in England and Wales under a new law, the government says. Under the legislation, anyone making explicit images of an adult without their consent will face a criminal record and unlimited fine. It will apply regardless of whether the creator of an image intended to share it, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said. And if the image is then shared more widely, they could face jail. A deepfake is an image or video that has been digitally altered with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to…

The owner of a non-league football club has said he had to explain the English game to a pair of American cryptocurrency investors who have injected $4.5m (about £3.6m) into the club. Podcaster Peter McCormack met Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2021 and told them about his plan to buy Real Bedford FC, his local team. He recalled: “Tyler and Cameron didn’t know the difference between the Football League and the Premier League “Tyler’s first question back was, ‘How do you get a team into the Premier League?’ I went away and came up with a plan and…

Airline passengers are facing cancellations or disruption to flights to Israel and surrounding countries after Iran’s airstrikes at the weekend. EasyJet has suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv up to and including Sunday, 21 April. Wizz Air said it would resume journeys to Israel on Tuesday, 16 April after stopping flights to Tel Aviv on Sunday and Monday. However, it warned: “Passengers may experience some schedule changes.” Wizz Air said that it was “closely monitoring the situation with the relevant authorities and keeping its passengers informed of all schedule changes”. “All passengers affected by the schedule changes will be…

Tesla will lay off more than 10% of its global electric vehicle workforce. In a memo, first reported by news website Electrek, billionaire owner Elon Musk told staff there was nothing he hated more, “but it must be done”. The world’s largest vehicle-maker by market value had 140,473 employees globally as of December, according to its latest annual report. Tesla has not responded to the BBC’s request for comment. “We have done a thorough review of the organisation and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally,” said the email from Mr Musk. “There is…

China’s economy made a stronger-than-expected start to the year, even as the crisis in its property sector deepened. According to official data, gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5.3% in the first three months of 2024, compared to a year earlier. That beat expectations the world’s second largest economy could see growth slow to 4.6% in the first quarter. Last month, Beijing set an ambitious annual growth target for world’s second largest economy of “around 5%”. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) also showed first quarter retail sales growth, a key gauge of China’s consumer confidence, fell to 3.1%.…