White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued the warning during a Thursday presser, telling reporters that while the president “believes in diplomacy,” he is also “committed to ensuring Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon” and would pursue whatever actions necessary to stop that from happening. “Given the ongoing advances in …
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The decision comes as part of “a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products,” Jerome Pesenti, Facebook’s VP of Artificial Intelligence, said on Tuesday. When the feature is discontinued, sometime “in the coming weeks,” more than a billion Facebook users who have opted in will have their …
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Akar’s remark came after a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. He said the purchase of the warplanes and the modernization of older F-16s in the Turkish fleet “also means the strengthening of NATO defense.” The purported deal was first announced by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. On his return …
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On Thursday, an Australian Department of Defence official hit back after France’s Armed Forces Ministry spokesman Hervé Grandjean claimed on Tuesday that Canberra had said it was ready to move forward with the 2016 French submarine deal just hours before the AUKUS (Australia, UK, US) announcement. The dispute concerns a …
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Under a deal outlined by the Department of Justice, the trio – at least two of whom formerly worked at the National Security Agency (NSA) – will pay a $1.7 million fine, and be stripped of their security clearances evermore. Their crimes were committed under the auspices of Project Raven, an operation …
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According to Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, the company received a Wells notice from the commission. “The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We have no idea why,” Grewal said in a blog post, adding that the SEC has told Coinbase it considers Lend …
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses the computer program, named ATLAS, to examine biometric information of immigrants – including their personal relationships, social media profiles – and runs fingerprints through federal databases like the FBI terrorist watchlist. The agency states ATLAS was built to ‘automate’ and ‘streamline’ the flow …
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Cambodians who have previously been injected with the Sinopharm or Sinovac vaccine will receive a dose of that produced by Oxford-AstraZeneca, while those inoculated with AstraZeneca’s will be administered Sinovac’s, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Sunday. Preparations are underway for the third-dose scheme, and the government has ordered the …
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US District Court Judge William Griesbach granted the temporary restraining order on Thursday in Milwaukee, suspending and jeopardizing a program touted by the Washington Post as “the most significant legislation for black farmers since the Civil Rights Act” of 1964. The $4 billion initiative – championed as part of President …
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Speaking to the New Knowledge event via video link on Friday, the creator of SpaceX noted his reverence for Sergey Korolev and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, two influential 20th-century pioneers. “[Tsiolkovsky] was amazing. He was truly one of the greatest,” the entrepreneur said. “At SpaceX, we name our conference rooms after the …
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