Authored by Whitney Webb via TheAntiMedia.org, When the U.S. overthrew the Taliban in the wake of 9/11 as part of its newly launched “war on terror,” it set the stage for the explosive growth of Afghanistan’s dying opium industry. A few short months before the invasion took place, the Taliban made headlines for having “dramatically ended the country’s massive opium trade” after the leader of the fundamentalist […]
If you’re ever looking for a teammate to join your pub trivia night, maybe international superstar singer Lorde could help you out. The Kiwi singer revealed on Australian radio station triple j that she’s won a $50 bar tab *and* a free pizza in her quiz defeating conquests before. Which is better than most of our efforts. While Lorde may not be able to drive — which […]
Domino’s DRU autonomous robot (Image: Domino’s) Domino’s has announced that its autonomous delivery vehicle is now operating commercially, delivering pizzas to customers in Hamburg, Germany. The robot delivery system was created in partnership with Starship Technologies, a European startup founded by two of Skype’s co-creators Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis in 2014. “Robotic delivery units will complement our existing delivery methods, including cars, scooters, and e-bikes,” Don […]
Vice President Leni Robredo’s trust rating remains to be ‘good’ based on SWS’ classification Patty Pasion Published 12:54 PM, May 11, 2017 Updated 1:03 PM, May 11, 2017 DECLINE. Trust ratings for Vice President Leni Robredo slid down by 15 points based on the lates survey by the Social Weather Stations. Photo by Ben Nabong/Rappler MANILA, Philippines – The trust rating for Vice President Leni Robredo remains […]
Xped executive chairman Athan Lekkas (Image: Supplied) Australian Securities Exchange-listed Internet of Things (IoT) company Xped has announced that it is purchasing fellow Adelaide-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Jemsoft for AU$200,000 in cash and 50 million Xped shares. The total value of the deal comes to AU$900,000, with Xped shares priced at 14 cents per share. In addition to acquiring all of Jemsoft’s intellectual property — including […]
Just hours after the Fed’s March “dovish” rate hike, when stocks paradoxically surged to all time highs and yields tumbled, Goldman found something strange: “surprisingly, financial markets took the meeting as a large dovish surprise—the third-largest at an FOMC meeting since 2000 outside the financial crisis, based on the co-movement of different asset prices.” Even more surprising is that according to Goldman, its financial conditions index, “eased […]
ISLAMABAD – Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had no moral right to rule after the verdict in Panama Papers case by the Supreme Court. Speaking to Pakistan People’s Party leaders including Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and former interior minister Rehman Malik here in separate meetings, Zardari said that the PM should quit, to allow the Joint Investigation […]
Senators from both sides of the aisle wrote to President Donald Trump on Wednesday urging him to take a tougher line with Beijing in the South China Sea, calling for more U.S. naval patrols to uphold navigation rights in the disputed waterway. The appeal, backed by three Republicans and four Democrats, reflects growing concern in Congress that the Trump administration could be ceding strategic ground to China […]
Jonathan Hunt, Vox Media’s former vice president of international operations, has left the digital news publisher for a job leading National Geographic’s audience development and digital strategy. Hunt’s hire is part of an expansion of National Geographic’s digital team. Also new at National Geographic will be Marcus East, formerly the digital director at retail company Marks and Spencer, who will be executive vice president of product and […]
Microsoft, whose campus is shown in this 2014 picture, has told developers at its annual Build conference it wants to bring artificial intellience into the mainstream Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new tools intended to democratize artificial intelligence by enabling machine smarts to be built into software from smartphone games to factory floors. The US technology titan opened its annual Build Conference by highlighting programs with artificial intelligence […]
In hot water: Cañete, Galzote, Maynes and Garcera for detaining a couple and demanding P250,000 for their release. —PNP CITF Less than three months after he took over the post, Makati police chief Senior Supt. Dionisio Bartolome was relieved on Wednesday after four of his men were arrested for kidnapping and extortion. Relieved along with Bartolome was Chief Insp. Oscar Pagulayan, the Makati police intelligence chief. Southern […]
The Dow just suddenly plunged as Boeing stock crashed following headlines that the aircraft manufacturer will temporarily suspend 737 Max flight due to engine issues… *BOEING TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS 737 MAX FLIGHTS ON ENGINE ISSUE *BA: POTENTIAL MFG QUALITY ESCAPE W/LPT DISCS IN LEAP 1B ENGINES *BOEING SAYS IT’S WORKING WITH CFM TO INSPECT DISCS IN QUESTION *BOEING SAYS MAX PRODUCTION WILL CONTINUE *BOEING SAYS PLAN REMAINS TO […]
The latest version of Opera is called “Reborn” and it aims to rethink the browser, adding a special new sidebar for messaging. The new sidebar has baked-in shortcuts for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram, allowing users to handle messages quickly and easily without having to open a separate tab or leave their current tab. The messaging sidebar is built right into the browser interface and once users […]
The Microsoft Cortana-powered Harman Kardon Invoke has its benefits, but Amazon’s Echo lineup might be too big to topple. Redmond has no one to blame but itself. Imagine an Amazon Echo with stellar sound quality that wasn’t primarily intended to sell you stuff you don’t need. Or a Google Home that wasn’t tied to your frighteningly detailed online dossier on the gargantuan […]
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing have come up with a novel computational approach that could provide a more cost- and resource-effective way for internet communities to moderate abusive content. They call it the Bag of Communities (BoC), a technique that leverages large-scale, preexisting data from other internet communities to train an algorithm to identify abusive behavior within a separate target community. […]
ISLAMABAD: The multi-agency joint investigation team (JIT), constituted to probe allegations against the prime minister and his children stemming from the Panama Papers, held another meeting in the Federal Judicial Academy here on Tuesday. Sources said that the team examined the detailed judgement issued by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case on April 20. As per the verdict, the JIT comprises officials of the Federal […]
As we reported last night, pretty much no one within the FBI had the slightest idea that Comey’s firing was coming. Even Comey himself, according to the New York Times, learned of his dismissal on the news and thought it was just a prank. Not surprisingly, this sudden and shocking ouster of an FBI director that has led an agency of 56 U.S. field offices and 30,000 […]
BN next most popular, with DAP trailing way behind in nationwide survey that also shows respondents favour PAS making hudud part of party’s manifesto. KUALA LUMPUR: A nationwide survey commissioned by a group who have now joined PPBM has found that PAS is the most popular party in the country, followed by Barisan Nasional (BN) and PKR. The survey respondents also favoured PAS fielding more ulama candidates […]
Tuesday was budget night in Australia, where people who cared about what the government was going to spend money on were glued to their television screens. Interrupting the scintillating analysis on TV was an ad by Netflix, promoting the upcoming season of House of Cards. But instead of it being about the show, it was styled like your typical Aussie political campaign ad. And you guessed it, […]
Authored by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org, Only one lawyer who prosecuted the Nuremberg trials is still alive today, and he has an important message for the world: war is not the answer. 60 Minutes recently interviewed Ben Ferencz, a son of Romanian Jewish immigrants who found refuge in the United States. His father worked as a janitor, and Ben was the first person in his family to […]
The verdict is out and it disappointed those seeking prompt disqualification of the prime minister under articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution. The court has spoken even if the judgement was not unanimous but as the CJP himself puts it, “Dissenting verdicts are given everywhere in the world but nowhere are they discussed as much as in Pakistan.” A judge can’t have any preferred outcome in […]
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, I’m fairly certain very few of you have heard of broker price opinions, or BPOs, but it’s something I think we should all become aware of given the influence of BPOs in the market for valuing residential real estate securitized bonds. Before we get to that, let’s revisit a little contemporary American robber baron history. In the immediate aftermath of the […]
Whether they’re flying pizzas, burritos or medications to customers’ doors, drones for delivery have arrived. Businesses as far-ranging as UPS, Dominos, Amazon and the hospital group Ticino EOC, are testing drones out, and in some cases, inked deals with drone makers and drone service providers to use them commercially. Still, most drones built for delivery only fly for a short time and distance. The drones are battery-powered, and one charge doesn’t take them far, though […]
Apple on Tuesday invited members of the press to attend the opening keynote for its annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 5. The keynote is scheduled to start at 1 pm ET/10 am PT at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. Apple in the Enterprise: A Strategic Guide Once a pariah in the enterprise, Apple has quietly emerged as a darling of executives […]
