Ladies, start your engines. Saudi Arabia’s king issued a decree on Tuesday allowing women to drive, which would end a longstanding ban on female motorists in the ultra-conservative country. The Saudi Ministry of the Interior said the decree means women will be allowed to drive in 10 months. Saudi Arabia […]
Daily Archives: September 26, 2017
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The US President was speaking in Washington during a joint press conference with the Spanish Prime Minster Mariano Rajoy. Mr Trump said: “Spain is a great, great country and it should remain united. “It’s actually been unfolding for centuries and I think that nobody knows if they are going to […]
Researchers have compared the performance of human subjects versus deep neural networks in visual searches.
More than 75,600 people have been evacuated in Bali, after dramatic increases in seismic activity sparked fears Mount Agung could erupt in a “matter of hours”. The Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (CVGHM) has raised the volcano alert to 4, meaning an eruption can be expected at […]
The Russian arm of fast food chain Burger King reportedly wants to make sure it is pulled from cinemas in the country – because it could be free advertising for McDonald’s. The reason? They say Pennywise the Clown is a dead ringer for Ronald McDonald. In the complaint, reported by […]
Equifax is being hammered with criticism for its handling of a data breach affecting 143 million people — the worst in U.S. history. CEO Richard Smith abruptly retired on Tuesday, joining the company’s CIO and CSO, who also departed after the massive hack was made public. “There was a time […]
A traditional wedding photo shoot turned into a rescue mission when a heroic groom jumped into water to save a drowning boy, the photographer said. Canadian newlyweds Clayton and Brittany Cook were posing for wedding photos on an Ontario park bridge following their ceremony on Friday when the groom noticed […]
Senior public prosecutor of Catalonia José Maria Romero de Tejada has ordered the head of the Mossos d’Esquadra – the Catalan police – to have his officers close off the centres to be used as polling stations for the referendum before September 30 until after 9pm on October 1 – […]