Month: October 2023
The U.S. is in a “dangerous period” according to the FBI Director
FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that violent extremists, including people inspired by foreign terrorist groups but also domestic violent extremists, will draw inspiration from the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict to carry out attacks against Americans. “We are not currently tracking an imminent, credible threat from a foreign terrorist organisation, a structured attack…but it is something that we think heightened vigilance is warranted for,” he added.
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Matthew Perry was the One without him
Matthew Perry, who played ‘Chandler Bing’ in ‘Friends’, has passed away at the age of 51 in Los Angeles. His body was found at his home by his girlfriend, who reported him missing on Saturday. In his book ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing’, he had revealed that he had been battling alcoholism and other addictions for a number of years.
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People in Gaza break into a UN warehouse to get supplies
The Palestinian Red Crescent on Sunday said it has received warnings from the Israeli authorities to evacuate the al-Quds hospital in Gaza Strip. ” since this morning, there has been raids 50 meters away from the hospital,” it added. Israeli officials have called on Palestinian civilians to head to a “humanitarian” zone in the south of the territory.
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The Maine shooter’s dead body was found by police near the scene that had been searched
The suspect who shot and killed 18 people in the US state of Maine, has been identified as Robert Card, a former US Marine. The police said that Card was armed and dangerous. Over 100 law enforcement officers from around the country are working around the clock, trying to catch Card, the police Chief said on Friday.
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What will the future look like of medicine with artificial intelligence?
An ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that predicts what missing portions of retinal photos and scans should look like. Pearse Keane and his colleagues used 1.6 million retinal photos and scans to learn how to predict what missing portions of the images should look like. The model is capable of identifying a person’s characteristics.
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The US has high confidence that a Palestinian rocket caused a hospital blast
The Israeli military released a picture of a moving object that they claimed was a rocket aimed at Israel, days after the Al-Ahli Hospital blast in Gaza that killed over 30 people. The picture showed a moving object that the military claimed was a rocket aimed at Israel. However, Palestinians said it was a rocket fired from Gaza and aimed at Israel.
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The coverage for the Gaza Hospital is noted in the note
US intelligence agencies said they have “high confidence” that a Palestinian rocket was responsible for the explosion at Gaza’s Al-Ahli Arab Hospital last week. They added that they have no Israeli weapon involved. The US officials said that an accurate count of the people who died at the hospital was impossible to obtain because of a lack of independent sources.
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The US states say that social media products ruin teens mental health
A group of 40 US states and the District of Columbia sued Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta, alleging they failed to protect young users from harmful content. They alleged that Facebook knew about Meta’s plans to have a ‘Like’ button on Instagram but kept it anyway. The states added that they also learned about Meta’s plans in an internal Facebook leak.
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The self- driving license of a GM vehicle in San Francisco was revoked after a taxi driver dragged a person
US’ California has ordered self-driving car company Cruise to stop operations in the state after a woman was hit and dragged 20 feet by a self-driving car in San Francisco. The woman was hit by a car earlier this month. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said it was suspending the vehicles because of safety issues.
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There are questions surrounding the blast at Al Ahli Arab Hospital
An Israeli airshock blast from a Christian-run hospital in the Gaza Strip is unlikely to be seen by a public eye, says Marc Garlasco, a former UN war crimes investigator. The blast took place at around 7 pm local time on Tuesday and was believed to have come from an Israeli missile barrage. Hundreds of Palestinians were sheltering at the hospital.
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