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Puerto Rico was hit with a massive power outage on Wednesday after energy plants across the island unexpectedly shut down, power generator Genera said.

Puerto Rico has long dealt with chronic power outages, including a blackout on New Year’s Eve, as its infrastructure crumbles.

Genera added in a post on X it was working to bring backup units online and investigate the cause of the incident.

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It is time to look at the things we haven’t been doing well and fix them. It is an unfortunate situation.

Wing Commander Musa Salman (Rtd), Security and Development Expert

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OpenAI released its newest AI model that it said can understand uploaded images like whiteboards, sketches and diagrams, even if they’re low quality.

The company called o3 its most advanced model yet and also released a smaller model called o4-mini.

OpenAI is racing to stay ahead in generative AI as competitors including Google, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI ramp up development.

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Spring is when many of us look forward to more daylight, sunshine and warmer weather, but it is also a great time in the calendar to look up in the night sky.

This year we've had aurora displays, a partial solar eclipse, and for the next 10 days, with clear skies permitting, you can enjoy the Lyrid meteor shower.

This celestial event happens every year between mid to late April, visible as short-lived streaks of light in the sky.

This year they will be active from 16 to 25 April, and will peak on Tuesday.

As this coincides with the Moon's last quarter, viewing conditions should be better, and of course the best time to spot them will be when the skies are at their darkest and clearest.

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This reflects the trend of more Americans either opting not to have kids or postponing them until later.

The total number of US births declined by 14% between 1990 and 2023, according to the March 2025 report.

During this time, birth rates among females younger than 20 decreased by 73%, marking the steepest percentage drop of all age groups.

This resulted in a decline from one in eight teen births in 1990 to one in 25 in 2023.

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Hong Kong’s postal service will stop handling packages coming from or going to the United States, in the latest retaliatory move amid an escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing.

In a statement published Wednesday announcing the decision, the government of Hong Kong cited US President Donald Trump’s decision last week to eliminate the so-called de minimis exception for items posted from the city to the US. The exemption applied to international shipments worth $800 or less entering the US.

“The US is unreasonable, bullying and imposing tariffs abusively,” the government said in the statement. “The public in Hong Kong should be prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable fees due to the US’s unreasonable and bullying acts.”

The government said the postal service, Hongkong Post, will stop accepting packages transported by sea with immediate effect and stop taking airborne packages starting from April 27. Other postal items containing only documents, for example letters, will not be affected.

The retaliatory move means companies and individuals in Hong Kong will have to pay private couriers such as FedEx and DHL to deliver packages, further driving up costs for consumers on top of US levies.

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Researchers in the South Atlantic have made numerous significant discoveries, including the identification of new species, evidence of a potential lost continent, and an evolving magnetic field anomaly. The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), a region of weakened magnetic field strength, has been observed to impact satellites and the aurora system. Additionally, researchers have found evidence of a giant granite slab, possibly indicating a submerged continent, and mapped new hydrothermal vents and deep-sea species, further contributing to our understanding of the South Atlantic's geological and biological history. 

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