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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not take kindly to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) speech on the Senate floor last week where he called for Israel to hold elections once the current assault on Gaza winds down. “What he said is totally inappropriate. It’s inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there,” the Israeli prime minister said in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union that aired Sunday. “That’s for the Israeli people to decide. I think it’s…

A young man enters a busy, dimly lit pub in Amsterdam alone to await the arrival of friends. A faint dance beat plays in the background. A drunken man approaches the bar and orders drinks in a loud, obnoxious manner. He proceeds to taunt the newcomer, burp in his face and bark, “What? Am I hitting on you or what?”On a virtual-reality (VR) headset where this scene plays out, a question is superimposed on the screen: “How do you feel at this moment?” The headset-wearer, who is watching the scene from the point of view of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Support for survivors of domestic violence is important, but to end domestic violence once and for all, society needs to understand the people who perpetrate it and how to intervene successfully. Domestic violence is very common in the United States. Nearly half of women and men in the U.S. experience sexual or…

VW, Audi and Porsche have all committed to use the Tesla-developed NACS connector starting in 2025. It’s one of the last dominos to fall towards universal adoption of the connector. NACS has taken the industry by storm this year, after Tesla released specifications of its charging connector in November 2022. It called it the “North American Charging Standard,” which was somewhat of an absurd name at the time, given that Tesla was the only company using it. However, since Tesla is a majority of…

After declaring last week he’d swoop the blue states if Jesus himself “came down,” Donald Trump returned to Iowa for a town hall in Davenport hosted by Fox News’ Sean Hannity. During the sit-down, the former president evaded Hannity’s questions on whether he would abuse power if he were to be elected president for asecond term. “Do you in any way, have any plans whatsoever if re-elected president to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people?” asked the host. “In the history of…

In the "King in Black" event (by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, and Frank Martin), the Avengers call on Sentry as Knull, the King in Black, arrives on Earth with his symbiote army. He appears to be the key to victory after taking the God of Symbiotes into space, but when Sentry reveals his plans to take Knull out, the supervillain tells him he remembered what he did to Carnage and pulls a similar move on him — ripping his body in half and turning him inside out much to the shock of his fellow heroes.…

Seven of the world’s leading tech firms working on artificial intelligence are meeting with the Biden Administration today where they will agree to a set of new commitments intended to manage potential risks posed by AI.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechThe new voluntary agreements include commitments to external, third-party testing prior to releasing an AI product and the development of watermarking systems to inform the public when a piece of audio or video material was generated using AI systems. The…

Microsoft, Google and OpenAI are among the leaders in the US artificial intelligence space that will reportedly commit to certain safeguards for their technology on Friday, following a push from the White House. The companies will voluntarily agree to abide by a number of principles though the agreement will expire when Congress passes legislation to regulate AI, according to Bloomberg. The Biden administration has placed a focus on making sure that AI companies develop the technology responsibly. Officials want to make…

Róisín Murphy is sitting in an old-fashioned shabby-chic drinking club in Soho, central London, that she approvingly describes as “very literary”. She is telling me about lockdown in Ibiza, where she lives with her partner and two children. “It was lovely to have the island so clean and quiet, driving along the salt flats, nobody around. Except they sent the Guardia Civil to Ibiza – they really clamped down. You couldn’t walk your dogs, you couldn’t smoke on the street. There were policemen with machine guns. So you were…

Advertisers are committed to continue spending on TikTok due to its immense popularity with users despite threats of a potential ban in the U.S. over national security concerns, ad experts said.The steadfastness comes as TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, is fighting to prevent a ban in the U.S. after lawmakers introduced a bill that would grant President Joe Biden's administration authority to ban apps that pose security risks. The short-form video app has already been banned from government-issued…