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Columbia University students are protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza. They want their school to financially divest from a country carrying out a genocide. More than 20 US universities are holding pro-Palestine protests. The broad steps leading to Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley are covered by tents occupied by students furious about Israel”s war against Hamas in Gaza. In Paris, anti-Israel chants erupted late Thursday at a pro-Palestinian encampment at City College of New York.
Tornadoes destroyed buildings and injured at least 100 people in Sulphur, Oklahoma. A 4-month-old baby was killed in the town of Holdenville. Governor Kevin Stitt declared a state of emergency. Norman Music Festival and Norman Arts Festival were canceled. Flood watches and warnings are in effect for parts of the Midwest. The storm system threatens parts of Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa through Sunday night. It's been two days of severe weather across the Plains since Friday.
First Minister Humza Yousaf ended the power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party on Thursday. The main opposition party in the Edinburgh-based parliament, the Scottish Conservatives, will put forward a vote of no confidence in the first minister next week. Patrick Harvie has been sacked from the government and is being accused of being a right-winger. He claims there's a left-wing faction in the SNP that wants to change the progressive policies promoted by the Greens.
Pedro Sánchez has decided not to resign as Spain's prime minister. His wife, Begoña Gómez, is being investigated for alleged offences of influence peddling and corruption. The accusation was brought by an association called Manos Limpias (Clean Hands), which has a history of bringing legal action against left-wing leaders. On Wednesday, a judge agreed to open an investigation into allegations of corruption made by a private group with ties to the far right. Pedro Sanchez will announce his decision on his possible resignation at 11 am local time.
Rochester City Council sent a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James, asking her to investigate the conduct of District Attorney Sandra Doorley after she was pulled over for speeding in Webster, N.Y., on Monday. On Friday, the Town of Webster released police body camera footage of an interaction between a police officer and the district attorney earlier this week. In the tense video, Doorley can be seen telling the officer she didn't stop when he first attempted to pull her over because she “didn’t feel like stopping on Phillips Road at 5:30.” She later tells the officer that she was going 55 mph in a 35 mph zone.
At least 59 tornadoes have been reported across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa as of 7 p.m. ET. The Friday night tornadoes wreaked havoc in the Midwest, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and damaging hundreds of homes. Three people were hurt in Nebraska’s Lancaster County when a tornado hit an Omaha suburb. Five teams from the National Weather Service are in the metro area to assess the damage. A tornado touched down near Eppley Airfield and traveled into Iowa.
Airstrikes overnight into Monday killed 22 people in Rafah, including six women and five children. Israel is planning an invasion of Rafah but its closest ally, the United States, has warned against it. Israeli officials have referred in recent days to an ICC probe launched three years ago into possible war crimes committed by Israel and Palestinian militants going back to the 2014 Israel-Hamas war. Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc stressed the need for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to expedite the conversion of a file against Israel into a case. Foreign Ministry instructed all Israeli missions around the world to prepare for a wave of antisemitic and anti-Israel attacks.
President Joe Biden was speaking at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night. He urged reporters to focus on what's at stake and not take sides in the election. The event was marred by protests over journalist deaths in Gaza and President Joe Biden's support for Israel's war against Hamas. Protesters shouted down administration officials as they entered the gala through a back entrance. They accused guests of being complicit in "enabling genocide" if they weren't boycotting the dinner.
Dozens were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at Virginia Tech last night. About 1000 people gathered on the university's Graduate Life Centre lawn to protest against Israel-Hamas conflict. They want the school to disinvest from Israel and end its support for Israel. The University issued a statement Sunday that the large protest and encampment on the lawn of the Graduate Life Center violates University facilities usage and event policies. About 100 people gathered at Texas Tech on Friday afternoon to pray for a ceasefire in Palestine.
Karen Read, 44, is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe with her car in January 2022. The couple had been to two bars on a night and were going to a party in Canton, but Read didn't feel well and decided not to go. She drove O’Keefe to his coworker Brian Albert's house where he was found dead in the early morning of Jan. 29, 2022. Her lawyers claim she was framed in a widespread cover-up involving witnesses and law enforcement. Opening statements in Karen Read's murder trial are set to begin on Monday at 10 a.m.
Mint Butterfield, 16, was found in the back of Christopher Dizefalo's white van in San Francisco on Saturday night. She had been missing for six days. Her parents are Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield who cofounded Flickr and Slack. They were last seen at 10 p.m. Sunday in Bolinas, California. Their daughter has a history of substance abuse and is staying with her mother and attending a private boarding school in Napa.
Trial for a mass environmental injury case begins in Hawaii on Monday. 17 relatives of U.S. military members suing the United States over the leak from the World War II-era storage tanks near Honolulu. The plaintiffs seek damages for injuries and illnesses they say were caused by drinking, bathing and laundering clothes in fuel following a spill in November 2021. More than 93,000 people displaced or forced to use alternate sources of water for months. Navy has determined that hundreds of tap water tests taken at Pearl Harbor in recent months produced false positives for low-level petroleum contamination due to the chemical reaction with chlorine in the samples.
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Humza Yousaf has resigned as the leader of the Scottish National Party. He ended a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party over climate change policies. The main opposition party in the Edinburgh-based parliament, the Scottish Conservatives, will put forward a vote of no confidence in the first minister next week. There is speculation that there could be an early election. SNP will hold a leadership candidate to replace Humza yousaf. It's been little over a year since he replaced Nicola Sturgeon as first minister and SNP leader.
The International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials over accusations related to the Israel-Hamas war. The New York Times reports that some charges could relate to the severe actions taken by the military in Gaza and the alleged preventing of humanitarian aid deliveries to the Strip. Airstrikes overnight into Monday killed 25 people in Rafah, including nine women and five children. Israel is planning an invasion of Rafah but its closest ally, the United States, has warned against it.
Pedro Sanchez will not resign as Spain's Prime Minister. A court opened a preliminary probe into his wife, Begoña Gomez, for influence peddling and corruption. The investigation was brought by an organization with links to the far-right. Pedro Sanchez has been in office since 2018 and was reappointed to another term in November. He cancelled public duties five days ago to "reflect" on whether to continue in the job. Thousands of people gathered outside his party headquarters chanting "Pedro, stay!"
Seven World Central Kitchen aid workers were killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza on April 1. The nonprofit, founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, suspended its operations delivering food aid in Gaza for four weeks. On Sunday, the organization announced that it will resume its operations on Monday. It has 276 trucks filled with the equivalent of almost 8 million meals ready to enter through the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza. Before the deaths last month, WCK had been providing 62 percent of all international nongovernmental organization aid, distributing more than 43 million meals in Gaza.
Hamas's al Qassam Brigades launched a slew of rockets at northern Israeli military position. Israel's overnight airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed at least 22 people. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to Saudi Arabia on Monday, just two days after arriving back in Washington after a trip to China. He will attend a World Economic Forum conference and meet with Arab foreign ministers in Riyadh. An Israeli foreign ministry official says Blinken will visit Israel on Tuesday.
A dam collapsed in western Kenya early Monday, killing at least 40 people after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road. The Old Kijabe Dam is located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region that is prone to flash floods. Ongoing rains have been pounding the country since mid-March and Meteorology Department has warned of more rainfall. More than 131,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced by intense downpours since Saturday.
Russia's defense ministry claims to have taken the village of Semenivka in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. On Sunday, the ministry announced the capture of Novobakhmutivka, another village close to Ocheretyne. Ukraine's commander-in-chief Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Telegram that the situation at the front has worsened. He warned of a worsening battlefield situation as Ukrainian forces wait for much-needed arms from a huge U.S. aid package.
Tornado in Guangzhou killed five people, injured dozens and damaged more than 140 buildings on Saturday. The extreme weather was the latest to hit China’s industrial heartland after torrential rain last week caused serious flooding and killed four people in Guangdong province. It unleashed deadly floods and posed a threat to millions of people. Rescuers are rushing to evacuate residents trapped by rising waters. Facebook has a problem with sending requests to websites without cookies that had been set previously.
Tens of thousands of Georgians participated in a countrywide protest against the ruling Georgian Dream party's attempt to pass the repressive and controversial “Transparency of Foreign Influence” law. The EU has repeatedly said the bill is a threat to Georgia's ambitions to join the European Union. Britain and the United States have also opposed the bill, while Hungary and Russia have defended it. Law requires non-profit entities to register as "organisations pursuing the interest of a foreign influence" if they receive more than 20% of funding from foreign sources.
The temperature in Manila hit a record high of 38.8 degrees Celsius on Saturday with the heat index reaching 45°C. The Philippines will suspend in-person classes in all public schools for two days due to extreme heat and a nationwide strike by jeepney drivers. In Thailand, power demand reached a record 36,356 megawatts late Saturday. About 30 people have died this year in Thaipatthai as a result of extreme weather conditions. Many schools have no air-conditioning, leaving students to swelter in crowded, poorly ventilated classrooms.
Pope Francis visited Venice to see the Holy See's pavilion at the Biennale contemporary art show and meet with the people who created it. The Vatican decided to mount its exhibit in Venice’s Giudecca prison, and invited inmates to collaborate with the artists. He also visited a female prison and rehabilitated a pioneering American nun called Regina Caeli. He addressed more than 10,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Mark's Square for Mass. In his homily he reminded Christians to remain united to Christ.
South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital. President Cyril Ramaphosa presided over the gathering in a huge white tent in the gardens of the government buildings in Pretoria as head of state. He also spoke as leader of the African National Congress party, credited with liberating South Africa's Black majority from the racist system of oppression. The ANC has been in power ever since the first democratic, all-race election of April 27, 1994, which officially ended apartheid.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in China to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving (FSD) software and permission to transfer data overseas. Premier Li Qiang praised Tesla as a successful example of U.S.-China economic and trade cooperation. Tesla reached an accord with Chinese authorities for a plant in Shanghai, its first outside the United States, in 2018. The company has been storing all data collected by its Chinese fleet in Shanghai since 2021. It has not transferred any back to the US.
Philips agrees to pay $1.1 billion to settle U.S. personal injury claims over recalled breathing devices in the United States. The settlement is lower than expected and ends uncertainty that had slashed Philips market value over the past three years. Since 2021, Philips has been battling a series of crises over its DreamStation machines for sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing stops and starts during sleep. Its shares were 46% higher at 11:15 a.m. London time.
France's CAC 40 added 0.3% in early trading to 8,109.22, Germany's DAX edged up 0.2% to 18,198.89, Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.5%. U.S. shares were set to drift higher with S&P 500 futures up 1.20%. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe rose 9.14 points, or 1.22%, to 758.4. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 38,239.66 on Friday.
The yen jumped suddenly against the dollar on Monday, with traders citing yen-buying intervention by Japanese authorities to boost the currency that is languishing near 34-year lows. The dollar rose as far as 160.245 yen in a sudden move after the yen traded in a narrow 158.05-158.15 range in early deals. Markets are on guard for any intervention by Tokyo to contain the yen’s nearly 11 percent fall this year. The FOMC starts its two-day meeting tomorrow and will almost surely keep rates unchanged. PCE figures confirmed that inflation remains too hot and last month's very strong jobs figures are likely to prompt a more cautious tone by Chair Jerome Powell.
US economy grew by 1.6% in the first quarter of the year, which is slightly lower than the economists' expectations of 2.4%. Consumer spending increased 2.5%, down from a 3.3% gain in the fourth quarter and below the 3% Wall Street estimate. Inflation rose to 2.7% for the year to March but was above the previous month's reading. The Federal Reserve’s go-to measure of price fluctuations — personal consumption expenditures figures — showed a small increase to 2 7%.
Jensen Huang, 61, is the CEO of chip company Nvidia. His company has become one of only four U.S. companies to ever top $2 trillion in stock market valuation. The company's graphics processing unit (GPS) technology is powering humanoid robots, the design of virtual movie sets and the creation of protein-based drugs to fight diseases. Huang co-founded the company in 1993 with fellow semiconductor designers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Pries. He believes AI will change the world but doesn't expect human jobs to disappear.
The US Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates unchanged later this week. Since the start of this year, inflation has accelerated, hitting an annual rate of 2.7 percent in March. The Fed's decision to hike interest rates and then hold them at a 23-year high has helped to lower elevated inflation but it remains above the central bank's long-term target of two percent. Recent statements by Fed Chair Jerom Fed seen on track for Sept start to US rate cuts.
Activist investor Ancora Holdings Group LLC is trying to take over Norfolk Southern Corp. and oust CEO Alan Shaw. The BLET Teamsters will back the activist's efforts to elect seven directors at the company's annual shareholder meeting on May 9 in Atlanta. If successful, the union would take over remote-control switching operations currently handled by conductors and engineers and end a federal lawsuit brought by the SMART-TD union. NS defends its response to last year's train derailment in East Palestine.
The earnings season is about to peak with Microsoft and Amazon releasing their first-quarter results today after the closing bell. S&P 500 index barely edged into positive territory on Wednesday. Tesla's stock surged 12% on Wednesday despite disappointing earnings figures. Four of Magnificent Seven stocks announced earnings this week, and investors reacted positively to three of them. On Thursday, Meta's earnings report disappointed but it unveiled guidance for the second quarter. Cloudflare blocked you from accessing investing.com due to security issues.
Atos received a non-binding letter of intent from the French state to buy a portion of its strategic services business. The offer includes advanced computing, cybersecurity products and mission-critical systems departments of Atos's BDS division valued between €700 million and €1 billion. Atos is struggling with nearly €5 billion in debt. It manages supercomputers for France's nuclear deterrence, maintains contracts with the French army, and serves as the IT partner for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
California now has 105,000 public or shared private electric vehicle chargers. California's EV charging infrastructure and overall adoption of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are the highest in the country. Governor Gavin Newsom dropped by a Tesla supercharger during Earth Week to highlight the state’s ongoing efforts to build a bigger and better charging network. The state hopes to get lower income residents into EVs with its new Clean Cars 4 All program, but it's going to put those residents through the wringer before they see any value from it.
U.S. economy grew at 1.6% in the first quarter, below the forecasted 2.4%. The GDP price index heated up to 3.1%, suggesting higher inflationary pressures than anticipated. Bitcoin's value briefly fell below $63,000 on Thursday. It is unlikely that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates swiftly. This could weaken investor sentiment and put downward pressure on the US dollar. Decline comes as inflows into BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF dry up.
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Moondrop MIAD 01 is a 5G smartphone with HiFi audio features. The Android-powered smartphone is available now from HiFiGo for $399. It will be available from authorized stores and eCommerce websites soon. Moondrop is a Chinese company best known for its HiFi products including headphones, earbuds, and amplifiers. AC Senior Editor Harish Jonnalagadda delves into all things hardware, including phones, storage servers, and routers in Hardwired.
The Google Pixel 8a is expected to be announced at Google I/O next month. It will probably cost a little more than its predecessor, the Pixel 7a. The screen size will be the same as the 6.1-inch version of the 7a and it will have a 120hz refresh rate and 1,400 nits of HDR brightness. There will be four colors available: Obsidian, Porcelain, Mint, and Bay. Audio Magic Eraser, Night Sight, and Best Take are some of the features touted by Google for the camera.
Apple is holding a special event on May 7th. It's been about 18 months since Apple updated any of its iPads, so its tablet lineup is due for a refresh. Rumors are rife that the new iPad Pro will come with Apple’s M4 chip. Mark Gurman claims it could be the first time an Apple product will be marketed as an AI-powered device. The company generated $7.78 billion in the last quarter from iPad sales but the overall tablet market is flat.
Some Apple users are being signed out of their Apple ID across their devices for no apparent reason and forced to reset their passwords. The issue has been going on since Friday, April 26th at 8 PM ET. It's affecting iPhone, iPad and Mac users as well as Stolen Device Protection users. There is no clear cause or solution to the problem yet. 9to5mac received its first tip about the issue around 8 p.m. ET. People from around the world are complaining about finding the same problem.
NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Friday, April 26th are: "That's cap", "Items required to cook something" and "Wherever I lay my hat". The official theme for Strands #53 is "As easy as pie" and the spangrams are "Butter corner corner, toner, owner, tile, toner, bone, tenor". There are spoilers in this post so be warned.
Apple is rumoured to be developing an on-device AI system. The company will likely license Google's Gemini AI software to handle complex tasks like text generation. Apple is looking to make major upgrades to iOS 18 ahead of its preview at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 10th. Rumors suggest that Apple is in talks with Google to provide a chatbot for iOS 18 in the form of a generative AI. It is being said that Apple does not intend to introduce its own chatbot this year and has again entered discussions with OpenAI.
Rabbit R1 is an ambitious but half-baked AI device that's similar to software chatbots like ChatGPT. It costs $199 and doesn't work as advertised just yet, but promises to improve it over time. Rabbit launched its debut R1 companion at a sold-out event at New York’s TWA Hotel last night. The company invited the media and more than 100 paying customers for the evening shindig. They enjoyed photo booths, specialty cocktails and a rousing keynote from CEO Jesse Lyu.
HTC's new smartphone HTC U24 Pro is expected to be launched in May. It will run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC with an octa-core processor configuration and an integrated Adreno 720 GPU, 12GB of RAM and operate on Android 14. Bluetooth SIG certification confirms the device will support Bluetooth 5.3. The phone could retain Full HD+ 120Hz OLED screen and IP67 ratings for dust and water resistance. It might have some decent internals to compete with devices such as Motorola Vivo V30 and OnePlus Vivo 4.
The iPhone 16 Pro Max is expected to be released in September. It will succeed the iPhone 15 Pro Max and take on the mantle as the best iPhone. Rumors suggest Apple has been working on iPhone Flip models in two different sizes, though there have been difficulties with their production. There are claims that Apple has placed orders with Advanced Semiconductor Engineering for capacitive buttons instead of mechanical ones. The Taptic Engine would play a massive role in giving out vibrations when pressing a button.
Battlestate Games announced a new $250 edition of Escape from Tarkov with a PvE co-op mode and numerous upgrades. The Unheard Edition has upset some players who were promised all future DLC but didn't get access to the PvE mode. COO of the developer apologizes for upsetting the FPS game’s community with the recently revealed Unheard Edict. He also explains what the future of EFT will look like. It's a first-person survival shooter in the vein of multiplayer games like Arma 3 and Day Z.
Apple has removed three AI-powered nude image generating apps from its App Store. The apps could be used to create nonconsensual nude images using the power of AI. Apple is rumoured to be working on new generative AI features for iOS 18. Google recently introduced a pilot program introducing pause ads on YouTube’s TV app, raising concerns about user experience. There is a proliferation of explicit AI “girlfriend” ads on Meta platforms with NSFW content violating their adult content policy.
How to change Eve's hairstyle in Stellar Blade. How to get the Holiday Rabbit Suit from Kaya and how to get Sky Ace outfit from a special quest called Encounter. Getting the Skin Suit is easy, but you need to beat the Corrupter to get it. The game will not be the year for big exclusive titles like Sony's "Stellar Blade", but some games are making more moderate budget games with more interesting gameplay options. It was confirmed that this title will not come out until next year.
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