French interior minister Gérard Collomb said intelligence services had foiled two terrorist attacks so far this year. One of the two attack plotters arrested mid-January had planned to hit a “major sporting facility” in western France, Mr Collomb told Europe 1 radio. France’s DGSI internal intelligence agency initially believed that […]
Daily Archives: February 26, 2018
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marijuana-joint More For years, people have debated whether legalizing marijuana could lead to an increase in the use of the drug among teens. But a new study finds that’s not the case, at least for laws that legalize medical marijuana. The study found that teen use of marijuana doesn’t seem […]
The police officer blamed for failing to enter a Florida high school while 17 people were killed said Monday that he’s been unfairly labeled a coward and that he did nothing wrong. A lawyer representing Scot Peterson said in a statement that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel “maligned” the officer […]
Would you pay $42 million for a clock that ticks once a year? Before you answer, consider this: It’ll be buried 500 feet (150 meters) below a mountaintop near the Texas-Mexico border, and yes — you must wind it by hand. Are you sold yet? Well, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE There is a vast network of conspiracy videos on YouTube that feeds off tragic events — including the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida — according to a prominent misinformation researcher. Jonathan Albright, research […]
President Donald Trump set a deadline of March 5 for Congress to address the fate of hundreds of thousands of people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, but the Supreme Court just gave everyone more time. On Monday, the nation’s highest court decided not hear arguments in a California […]
Baidu is building on its Deep Voice engineAnthony Kwan/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Edd Gent Chinese search giant Baidu says it can create a copy of someone’s voice using neural networks – and all that’s needed to work from is less than a minute’s worth of audio of the person […]
The attack on Jan Kuciak was likely linked to his reporting on tax evasion More (PRAGUE) — A Slovak investigative reporter and his girlfriend were shot dead in their home in an attack likely linked to his reporting on tax evasion, Slovakia’s top police official said Monday. The bodies of […]