Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson is sounding the alarm about the protection of “individual rights” and calling on the regulatory legislation of artificial intelligence personal voice assistants after a leading AI tech company developed one she said sounds like hers. Johansson, 39, played the role of an AI personal chat assistant in the 2013 Spike Jonze […]
Iran unveiled a drone last week designed to loiter over a target area until launching an attack, a weapon similar to the Russian uncrewed aerial vehicle used in Ukraine. The Islamic Republic News Agency said the new drone is designed for counterambush operations and is expected to increase the combat capabilities of the Islamic Revolutionary […]
UNITED NATIONS — Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a U.S.-Japan resolution to stop an arms race in space. The Russian draft resolution, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, goes further than […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people in the state who entered the U.S. illegally, similar to embattled legislation in Texas. Amid national fights between Republican states and Democratic President Joe Biden over how and who should enforce […]
LONDON (AP) — More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after the deaths of three U.K. aid workers in an Israeli strike. Britain is just one of a number of […]
CHICAGO — United Airlines said Friday that it is raising its fees for checking bags, following a similar move earlier this week by American Airlines. Starting with tickets booked Saturday, economy-class passengers on domestic flights will be charged $5 more. That will bring the price to $35 if they pay online at least 24 hours […]
HONG KONG — Hong Kong began public consultation on a local National Security Law on Tuesday, more than three years after Beijing imposed a similar law that has all but wiped out dissent in the semi-autonomous city. The new law could expand the government’s ability to prosecute residents for offenses like collaborating with foreign forces […]
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