San Francisco: Facing flak for failure to block the live broadcast of the New Zealand terrorist attack last week, Facebook on Thursday said that its Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools were not “perfect” to detect the horrific video. Vowing to improve its technology, the social networking giant, however, ruled out adding[Read More…]
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UK: Government petition website crashes after over 600K call to stay in EU
London: The UK government’s website for petitions crashed on Thursday morning after over 600K signed plea to for article 50 to be revoked. The petition which was launched on Wednesday evening soon after Prime Minister Theresa May criticised MPs for not approving the Brexit deal. In less than a day,[Read More…]
New Zealand bans semi-automatic, assault rifles
Wellington: Military-style semi-automatics and assault rifles will be banned under stronger new gun laws announced by the New Zealand government on Thursday. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the gun law reforms at a press conference, New Zealand Herald reported. The government has banned the weapons less than a week after[Read More…]
UAE man wanting Christchurch-like terror attack in India, sacked and deported
Dubai: A security company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has fired and deported one of its employees for posting a comment on Facebook celebrating the terrorist attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people lost their lives. “Over the weekend, a Transguard employee made inflammatory[Read More…]
New Zealand to broadcast Azaan nationally in honour of Christchurch terror attack victims: PM Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday said that nation will observe two minutes of silence on Friday to mark one week since the deadly terror attack at two Christchurch mosques in which 50 people died. Ardern also announced that the Muslim call to prayer, Azaan, will be broadcasted nationally[Read More…]
Man arrested for attempting to smuggle live human embryo to India
Reportedly, the man has agreed that he has earlier made several similar smugglings
New Zealand PM Ardern calls for global fight against racism
Christchurch: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for a global fight to root out racist right-wing ideology following last week’s deadly attack on two mosques here. Talking about the rise of right-wing nationalism she said: “This was an Australian citizen but that is not to say that we[Read More…]
Paris among most expensive cities, Chennai among cheapest
New York: Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong are most expensive cities in the world while Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru are among the cheapest places to live, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2019 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey. The three top cities are tied at the top spot, CNN quoted[Read More…]
148 sexual abuse cases against peacekeeping forces of UN
New Delhi: As many as 148 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse relating to personnel in peacekeeping and special political missions of the United Nations and 111 relating to non-UN related entities were reported in 2018 against 138 in 2017 and 165 in 2016. The UN Secretary-General’s report on “Special[Read More…]
Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara resigns amid affair allegations
Kevin Tsujihara, the chief executive of Warner Bros. studios division, has stepped down after accusations surfaced that he had pushed for a woman with whom he had a sexual relationship to be considered for roles in the company’s films and television shows. Tsujihara’s exit arrives less than two weeks after an extensively[Read More…]
