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(Reuters) - Citigroup's Titi Cole, a top executive in charge of implementing its sweeping restructuring plan, is leaving the bank, an internal memo seen by Reuters showed on Tuesday.

Cole, as the head of legacy franchises, executed the third largest U.S. lender's plan to simplify the firm by completing the sales of consumer banking businesses in nine non-core markets.

CEO Jane Fraser began a sweeping reorganization in September to... (continue reading...)

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. government officials have temporarily relaxed strict guidelines on how public health laboratories and healthcare facilities handle, store and transport H5N1 bird flu samples, which are considered high-risk pathogens, in response to the recent spread of the virus to dairy cattle.

The revised guidance, which has not been previously reported, came at the request of the Association of Public... (continue reading...)

By Max A. Cherney

(Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday unveiled a product called Trillium in its artificial intelligence data center chip family that it says is nearly five times as fast as its prior version.

"Industry demand for (machine learning) computer has grown by a factor of 1 million in the last six years, roughly increasing 10-fold every year," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a briefing call with reporters. "I think... (continue reading...)

ANKARA (Reuters) - A curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York said on Tuesday he was released after Turkish authorities detained him on suspicion of trying to smuggle valuable poisonous spiders and scorpions out of the country.

Lorendo Prendini was arrested on Sunday at Istanbul Airport by Turkish police why said they seized dozens of bags from his luggage containing some 1,500 scorpions and spiders, including tarantulas, as well... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin will resume flights to space on Sunday, ending a near two-year pause of crewed operations following a 2022 mission failure.

The NS-25 mission will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas, with the launch window for the flight starting at 0830 CT (1330 GMT), the company said on Tuesday.

The New Shepard rocket, which flies cargo and humans on short trips to the edge of space, has been grounded... (continue reading...)