PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian leaders scrambled Tuesday to meet a 24-hour deadline to set up a panel that will lead the deteriorating country to new elections following the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Kenyan officials, meanwhile, said they were putting the deployment of a U.N.-approved, multinational security force to the beleaguered Caribbean nation on … Read more
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Google says it’s pausing the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be generating inaccurate historical images. Gemini has been creating diverse images of the US Founding Fathers and Nazi-era German soldiers, in what looked like an attempt to subvert the gender and racial stereotypes found … Read more
You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. The United States and its allies are suspending funding to a U.N. agency at a critical moment for Gaza. Before … Read more
Jason Hiner/ZDNET Looking to buy an Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 directly from Apple? You’re in luck. Following a patent dispute over Apple’s use of the device’s blood oxygen sensor, the International Trade Commission (ITC) halted sales and imports of those two models. Now, that ruling has been suspended courtesy of a federal … Read more
Play video content Amanda Bynes has hit the brakes on her new podcast after just one episode … and it’s all because she’s unable to book famous entertainers like Drake. In a video posted Sunday to TikTok, the ex-child star explained that she was pausing her “Amanda Bynes and Paul Sieminski: Podcast” on Spotify even … Read more
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Wednesday calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip” after four failed attempts to respond to the Israel-Hamas war. The vote was 12-0 with the United States, United Kingdom and Russia abstaining. The final draft watered down language from a … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Israel has agreed to daily “tactical, localized pauses” in its offensive against Hamas to allow the distribution of humanitarian assistance and the further evacuation of civilians as its troops move toward the center of Gaza City, Israeli and U.S. officials said Thursday. The pauses, with three hours’ … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv on Friday to push the Israeli government to protect civilians during their assault on Gaza, as the Biden administration continues to work for the release of Hamas-held hostages and to enable U.S. citizens trapped inside … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave After weeks of declining to back growing international calls for “humanitarian pauses” in Israeli airstrikes to allow a steady flow of aid to enter Gaza, permit American and foreign citizens to exit into Egypt and facilitate the release of hostages, the Biden administration is now fully in … Read more
Cruise said Thursday evening it has paused all driverless operations, a decision that comes just two days after the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s deployment and driverless testing permits effectively ending its robotaxi operations in the state. The action means that driverless operations in Austin and Houston, where the company had started charging … Read more