PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Mislande’s nightmare began as it does for so many women and girls here, with a trip across a gang-controlled area to buy tomatoes, onions and other vegetables to sell in her neighborhood. The 24-year-old was returning with seven others from a downtown market last March to their homes in Cité Soleil, the … Read more
Image: Killian Plunkett/Dark Horse Decades even before the Republic was made aware of the existence of the Kaminoan clone army, the Senate backed multiple elaborate projects to support and enhance the effectiveness of the various, smaller defense forces aligned with the Republic and its member worlds. One such project, completed in 46BBY—14 years before the … Read more
Lilibet, Archie dubbed secret weapon for Prince Harry to return to royal family Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet are the secret weapon for the couple’s ‘way back into Royal Family’, it has been claimed. A royal expert has claimed that surely the Duke and Duchess of Sussex can use … Read more
Leading defense tech startup Anduril has developed a new product designed to take-on the proliferation of low-cost, high-powered aerial threats. The product is called Roadrunner, a modular, twin-jet powered autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) air vehicle that’s designed for low costs. Anduril has also developed a variant called Roadrunner-Munition, or Roadrunner-M, a “high-explosive interceptor,” … Read more
Play video content Video has now surfaced of a brutal brawl the day before Thanksgiving in Saugus, Massachusetts. Someone used a glass bottle as a weapon during the bloody fight, as patrons duke it out and blood flows freely. Some fighters either ripped off their shirts during the brawl or had them ripped off during … Read more
KitchenAid/ZDNETWhat’s the Black Friday deal? Best Buy is taking $200 off KitchenAid’s 5.5 quart bowl lift stand mixer, taking the price from $450 to $250. Why this deal is ZDNET recommended You don’t want to keep mashing all those Thanksgiving potatoes and mixing the ingredients for pies and cakes by hand, do you? This KitchenAid … Read more
Leonid Tymchenko spent the first month of Russia’s invasion sitting in his dark government office after curfew. Unable to go home, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs scrolled through Telegram, looking at thousands of videos and images of advancing Russian soldiers. When Tymchenko was offered a chance to test a new facial-recognition tool, he uploaded … Read more
“No company can repair or do anything right now,” Mekdad says. Many firms, he says, are waiting until the war is over to see the status of their infrastructure and evaluate it. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said last week that 65 percent of households and businesses have lost access … Read more
As ChatGPT’s first birthday approaches, presents are rolling in for the large language model that rocked the world. From President Joe Biden comes an oversized “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” And UK prime minister Rishi Sunak threw a party with a cool extinction-of-the-human-race theme, wrapped up … Read more
The US Defense Department believes the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is developing a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. That is, a heavy, multi-stage missile that leaves the Earth’s atmosphere and travels around the world at huge velocities before re-entering and descending toward its target at 20 times the speed of sound. Such missiles normally have a … Read more