KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term blackout of communications as Israel signaled its offensive against Hamas could next target the south, where most of the population has taken refuge. Israeli troops …
Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish or malicious purposes. Unlike misinformation, which may be shared unwittingly or with good intentions, disinformation aims to foment distrust, destabilize institutions, discredit good intentions, defame opponents and delegitimize sources of knowledge such as science and journalism. Many governments engage in disinformation campaigns. For instance, the Russian government …
Meta-owned messaging App WhatsApp has introduced a view once feature on voice notes to add more layers of privacy. The voice note will disappear once the recipient has listened to it. “For reading out your credit card details to a friend, or when you’re planning a surprise, you can now also share sensitive information over …
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A Starship Technologies robot on a delivery run. Customers place an order via an app and the robot delivers it inside a secure compartment. Starship Technologies A bomb threat involving wheel-based delivery robots at an Oregon State University campus has turned out to be a prank following the reported arrest of a suspect. Officials at …
Climate change isn’t going away, and it isn’t going to get any better — at least if we keep legislating as we have been. In Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation, a multidisciplinary collection of subject matter experts discuss the increasingly intertwined fates of American ecology and democracy, arguing that only …
Google has been accused of negligence after a man drove off a broken bridge while allegedly following directions on Google Maps. Philip Paxson drowned after the Jeep Gladiator he was driving fell about 20 feet (6.1 meters) and landed upside down in a river in Hickory, North Carolina, about 60 miles north-west of Charlotte. A …
Former tech entrepreneur, Elizabeth Holmes began her sentence for fraud on Tuesday, marking the end of a high-profile case that rocked Silicon Valley. Holmes was convicted by a California court in 2022 on four counts of defrauding investors by promoting failed blood-testing technology. In November, she was sentenced to 11 years and three months in …
New York City has introduced crime-fighting robots which are designed to support human police officers. This is the second attempt by the city to incorporate robocops in its police department, after public outcry curtailed a similar effort two years ago. Massachusetts-based Boston Dynamics built two “Digidogs” at a cost of $750,000 from the police department’s …