It was a joyful day 30 years ago in a South Africa that had enjoyed very few. It was the first truly democratic election, and the black majority – for so long the victims of the wretched oppression imposed by apartheid – finally had their say. And how they spoke! I watched them queue in
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Mukesh, a 22-year-old from Munak in the northern state of Haryana, shows Sky News the scars all over his body he says are from torture in a Russian prison. He alleges prison guards stubbed their cigarettes out on him and regularly beat him up for months while he was incarcerated. Mukesh is one of the
New tool — Russia and China are using OpenAI tools to spread disinformation Iran and Israel have been getting in on the action as well. Hannah Murphy, Financial Times – May 31, 2024 1:47 pm UTC Enlarge / OpenAI said it was committed to uncovering disinformation campaigns and was building its own AI-powered tools to
Star-what? — Rocket Report: North Korean rocket explosion; launch over Chinese skyline The European Space Agency again turned to SpaceX to launch an important science mission. Stephen Clark – May 31, 2024 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / A sea-borne variant of the commercial Ceres 1 rocket lifts off near the coast of Rizhao, a city
Refunds availableif you know where to ask — Spotify wont open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process Spotify to brick hardware it released to general public in 2022 this December. Scharon Harding – May 30, 2024 10:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Spotify’s Car Thing in a car. Spotify reader comments 82 Spotify will refund owners
people showed up to watch — Driverless racing is real, terrible, and strangely exciting The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League proves its possible, just very hard. Hazel Southwell – May 31, 2024 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / No one’s entirely sure if driverless racing will be any good to watch, but before we find that
The US economy grew at a sluggish 1.3% annual pace from January through March, the weakest quarterly rate since the spring of 2022, the government said Thursday in a downgrade from its previous estimate. Consumer spending rose but at a slower pace than previously thought, a sign that high interest rates and lingering inflation are
(RNS) — In 1980, conservative political operative Paul Weyrich approached evangelical Christian leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson with a proposal: If they would mobilize their believers to begin voting Republican, he would help them in their quest to roll back many of the civil rights protections they chafed against. Over the next 40 years,
France says it has foiled an attack targeting one of the football stadiums being used for this summer’s Olympic Games. The country’s security forces arrested an 18-year-old from Chechnya earlier this month in the southeastern city of Saint-Etienne, interior minister Gerald Darmanin said. According to investigators, the man was preparing an attack on the Geoffroy-Guichard
The Minneapolis police officer gunned down in an ambush-style attack was killed while trying to help the suspect, who initially pretended to be a victim in need of help during Thursday’s mass shooting, according to officials. Officer Jamal Mitchell, 28, responded to a reported shooting inside an apartment in the citys trendy Whittier neighborhood and
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped Thursday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who
TikTok is reportedly building a copy of its core recommendation algorithm in the US an effort that is playing out even as the company tries to block a law requiring its China-based parent ByteDance to divest or face a total US ban of the app. Efforts to rebuild the algorithm would allow the popular video-sharing
The US economy grew at a sluggish 1.3% annual pace from January through March, the weakest quarterly rate since the spring of 2022, the government said Thursday in a downgrade from its previous estimate. Consumer spending rose but at a slower pace than previously thought, a sign that high interest rates and lingering inflation are
Commercial truck drivers have joined the long list of opponents who’ve filed lawsuits to block the controversial first-in-nation congestion toll to enter parts of Manhattan. The Trucking Association of New York (TANY) slammed the congestion pricing program as unconstitutional and a “scheme for which there is no prior precedent in this country” in a suit
Google has confirmed that a massive leak of some 2,500 internal documents related to its search engine is authentic and one expert said the trove shows that “Google tells us one thing and they do another” when it comes to its mysterious algorithms. The tech giant has been secretive about how its search engine works
By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. Principle of pulse oximeters Benefits of remote pulse oximeters Limitations of remote pulse oximeters Future research outlook of remote pulse oximeters References Further reading A pulse oximeter is a safe, simple, and non-invasive instrument that estimates SpO2, which is the number of hemoglobin molecules in
McDonald’s top US executive denounced viral reports of runaway Big Mac prices as painting an inaccurate picture of the company, which has seen its profits surge by roughly a third since 2019 and is now preparing to roll out $5 combo meals. “I can tell you that it frustrates and worries me, and many of our
By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. Traditional Vs. modern- medical education and training strategy Why are AR programs beneficial for students and educators? AR-based programs for anatomical studies Future perspectives References Further reading Augmented reality (AR) is a fairly new technology that has gained significant attention in medical education and training.
Stop & Shop is planning to shutter an unspecified number of its grocery stores across the Northeast that the company said are “underperforming.” “Stop & Shop will make some difficult decisions to close select underperforming store locations to help ensure the long-term health and future growth for our business,” a spokesperson for the supermarket chain
Walgreens said it will slash prices on 1,300 items across its drugstores — the latest big retailer to enact discounts as consumers grow increasingly picky about where they shop in an era of stubbornly high inflation. Earlier this week, Amazon Fresh announced that it was slashing the costs of 4,000 weekly rotating grocery products by
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