About 8 million children under the age of 5 are at risk of death from severe acute malnutrition. Unicef, the United Nations children’s rights organization, warns about this on the eve of the G7 summit. Since the beginning of this year, more than a quarter of a million (260,000) […]
Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to change its advertising after allegations of discrimination. Artificial intelligence must ensure that population groups are not excluded based on characteristics such as gender, age or origin. The US Department of Housing had complained that housing ads on Facebook “unlawfully discriminate” based on, […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes an economic recession in the United States is likely. That said the richest man in the world in an interview with Bloomberg news agency at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. “A recession is inevitable at some point and a recession is likely to […]
TSMC, the largest chip manufacturer in the world, wants to start producing chips on a 2 nanometer process in 2025. It will therefore adopt the nanosheets technology for better performance. The technology, which TSMC itself describes as N2, promises up to 15 percent more speed or 25 to 30 […]
The Israeli army shot and killed three Palestinians on Friday and wounded at least ten more in a raid on the West Bank city of Jenin. Jenin is known as a stronghold of armed militias fighting Israel. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the three people were killed […]
The EU Court of Justice, part of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, has quashed a fine of almost 1 billion euros that the European Commission had imposed on the American chip group Qualcomm in early 2018. Qualcomm, which produces chipsets for smartphones, among other things, was accused […]
Self-employed workers are not required by law to buy insurance in most cases, but they are wise to take at least some coverage out. There are scores of business insurance products on the market and not every self-employed person will need every one of them. But, depending on the work […]
Talks are said to be underway between one of the major US defence companies and the Israeli NSO Group to acquire the controversial Pegasus spyware. But that is not possible without the green light from both governments. L3Harris is one of the largest defence specialists and supplies military equipment, […]
A US court has banned Jason Alexander, the ex-husband of Britney Spears, from contacting him. The man has to stay away from the singer for three years after he showed up unannounced at her wedding to Sam Asghari last week. Alexander (40) was arrested after his bizarre adventure in […]
The floods that have ravaged Turkey and the capital Ankara in particular since Saturday have already killed four people. A fifth person has been reported missing. More rain is expected on Monday, Turkish media write. Three bodies were found in Ankara province. Emergency services are still looking for one […]
