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A dangerous storm causes travel to be stopped and power to be cut across the US.
The winter storm that was battering parts of the US has been downgraded to a “very low risk”, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Friday. It is expected to bring record-low temperatures in large regions of the US on Friday. The weather agency has also issued an orange alert for snow…
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The family and police in Columbus plead for the return of the twins.
Kason Thomass, a five-month-old baby boy, who was stolen from his mother while she was picking up a restaurant order in US’ Columbus, has been reunited with his family. “This car has to be somewhere. We want to bring his baby home,” a community leader said. The baby and his twin were inside a black…
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Climate change is hitting Oregon this Christmas.
The US has identified the highest mortality rate for fir trees in history in 2019 as a result of climate change, according to a US Forest Service report. It said that around 470,000 acres contained dead trees last year, while the total death toll in Oregon stood at 14 thousand acres. “If this drought continues…it…
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The risk of hurricanes is growing.
Scientists have suggested that climate change could have led to the La Nina-type hurricanes that hit the US this year. “There appears to be this window of time within which you…might want to help people better understand what those risks are, and make links to climate change,” a researcher said. According to climate model predictions,…
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There are snow and dangerous cold in the US during the Christmas season.
The Storm Prediction Center has predicted that snow and strong winds are expected to spread across the Northern Plains into the Upper Midwest in the US on Wednesday and Thursday. The eastern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine areas can expect between 18 and 24 inches of snow, according to the weather service.
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El Paso tries to house many migrants, but some don’t make the cut.
Thousands of Venezuelan migrants have been arriving in the US’ El Paso city each day after crossing the border illegally from Mexico, city officials said. This comes as the US and Mexico announced a deal to quickly expel Venezuelan migrants who enter the US illegally. Over 2,500 people arrived in El Paso each day in…
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Police and protesters are fighting after a fatal shooting.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin visited the scene of the shooting at the Kurdish Cultural Center in Paris on Saturday and met with members of the Kurdish community. Darmanin said he was “shocked” by the attack which left three people dead and three others injured. Darmanin added that the suspect had recently been released from…
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Holiday travel is dangerous in the US because of a massive winter storm.
Several parts of the US are experiencing winter storm-like weather conditions with snowfall, blizzard conditions and bitter cold. “This is the first time I have been this cold in my life,” said a woman who had to wear a face mask as she was stuck in traffic in New Hampshire. The temperature in upstate New…
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When cold temperatures arrive in El Paso, migrants have trouble finding another place to stay.
US President Joe Biden and Mexico President Andrés Manuel Lpez Obrador have called for a meeting to discuss the ongoing situation at the Paso Del Norte border crossing. Over 5,000 migrants, who were released from US Border Patrol custody, are currently stranded at the border crossing. Lpez said he has asked his counterpart to take…
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A winter storm that’s coast-to-coast is causing dangerous conditions.
A winter storm, which has been dubbed the “winter storm of the century”, is likely to disrupt travel across the US for the next few days. While blizzard conditions will be expected in the Great Plains, ice and snow storms are also possible in the US Gulf Coast region. Blizzard conditions will be possible in…
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I was persuaded to buy an Apple Watch Series 7 after a month of wearing an Apple Watch Ultra.
Apple’s new Watch Ultra costs $399 (31,000) and is equipped with a new low-power mode to save up to 60 hours of battery life. The watch’s display shows the distance covered by the screen, time, heart rate, distance covered by GPS and other vitals such as steps taken. It also features a depth gauge that…
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Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit.
Facebook has been fined $24.7 million by Washington state over violations of the US state’s campaign transparency laws. This is the largest campaign finance penalty ever issued in the US, Washington state’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson said. He added that Facebook did not follow the state’s election transparency laws. The fine was for 821 violations…
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Vans may be able to go electric.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said their team will be producing vehicles in 2023 in local “microfactories”. “Think of a warehouse in your city, building vehicles for your city. We had to rethink the way vehicles are designed and engineered. We had to design and create our own components to control cost and function in…
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A woman is found guilty of wounding Megan Thee Stallion.
Singer Megan Lanez has said that Kelsey Peterson, who is accused of shooting her at a party in Los Angeles in October 2020, watched her on Instagram and once called her “bitch”. Megan further said that after exiting the vehicle for a second time, Peterson shouted at her, “Dance, bitch”. She added that Kelsey fired…
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From ‘Morbius’ to ‘The Rings of Power’, there will be disappointing movies and TV shows in twelve years.
TV shows ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Better Call Saul’, ‘The Crown’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Atlanta’ are among the TV series that ended their runs this year. The shows are followed by ‘The Crown’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Atlanta’, ‘Better Call Saul’, ‘The Crown’ and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’.
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Flight delays and cancelations on Friday disrupted holiday travel.
The US Department of Transportation’s (DoT) Airline Customer Service Dashboard has released a list of tips to avoid flight delays and cancellations during Christmas, New Year’s Day and Thanksgiving holidays. The list includes checking the DOT’s Airline Customer Service Dashboard to prevent oversold flight delay Cancellations, Arrival Time, and Interline Agreements.
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The Metaverse does not have a leg to stand on.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a virtual reality conference said that he is “not ready” to leave the social media platform. He further said that he has asked Meta’s investors for their advice. “The pressures Meta is facing…in 2022 are acute, significant and not metaverse-related,” said Matthew Ball, an investor and Metaverse expert whose advice…
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The EU threatens to impose sanctions over the ban on journalists.
Twitter’s policy of permanently suspending users who are repeatedly violated its rules will be repealed by Founder and CEO Elon Musk when he restores most previously banned accounts next week. The social media platform’s policy of permanently suspending users who are repeatedly violated its rules will be repealed by Musk when he restores most previously…
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Why did it cost money to watch the NBA Sunday Ticket?
YouTube has launched a streaming service for US National Football League (NFL) games called YouTube TV. It said it will let users watch live and on-demand events from the league’s affiliates, including Fox, CBS and Turner Broadcasting, on their computers and smartphones. YouTube TV will be offered as an add-on subscription or as a la…
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A federal investigation is underway over Musk’s deal with the social networking service, according to Twitter.
The FBI didn’t investigate Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s ex-employee Hunter Biden’s laptop after it was linked to a Russian intelligence operation, former FBI Deputy Director Janice Chan said. She added that she was not authorised to address the question since the FBI had not publicly confirmed its Hunter Biden investigation at the time. Earlier, Roth…
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A shooting at a Kurdish cultural center in Paris claimed the lives of 3 people.
Three people were killed on Friday and four others were injured in a shooting at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris, the French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. The attack took place near the French capital’s 10th arrondissement. The gunman had recently been released from prison after attacking immigrants living in tents, the Paris prosecutor…
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California is on fire, can plants think?
In a recent article by Nature, philosopher Paco Calvo said that humans are so focused on “brain-centric consciousness”, “that we find it difficult to imagine other kinds of internal experience”. Calvo added that artificial intelligence is not a big deal in UK academia. He further said that Black people and those from other marginalised ethnicities…
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Imagine if a talking machine could speak.
DeepMind’s AI system AlphaCode, which can often compete with humans at solving simple computer science problems, has been appreciated by artificial intelligence researchers. The AlphaCode tool, which was released in February by DeepMind, showed that it beat half of the humans at a coding competition. The state-of-the-art AIs don’t have the ability to replace human…
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It should not matter if Musk buys or not.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has said the social media platform is “working on” new features to give people more control over their experience. This comes after Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s surprise announcement that he was buying the micro-blogging platform. Dorsey added that Twitter hasn’t decided how it will continue to work. However, he said, “Nothing…
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The January 6 Committee is inside.
Six publishers, including Penguin Random House and Melville House, will publish the report on the attack on US Capitol in January. Dennis Johnson, the co-founder of Melville House, said, “If it’s a 6,500 page report with…transcripts, I’m going to let someone else publish it.” He added, “Most government reports were like the instruction manual to…