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NEW YORK β Netflix’s $72 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. studio and its film and television operations drew quick reactions Friday. Film and television industry entities including guilds and the lobbying group for movie theater owners criticized the deal, warning it would harm consumers and cinema owners. In announcing the deal, Warner Bros. and…
Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a βhigh riskβ watch list in the Canadian city of Edmonton, a live test of whether facial recognition technology shunned as too intrusive could have a place in policing throughout North America. But six years after…
KYIV β The commander of sea-drone operations for Ukraineβs military intelligence agency says more complex strikes against Russian forces are expected next year, after Kyivβs uncrewed fleet succeeded in curbing the movements of Russiaβs once-dominant Black Sea navy. In an interview with The Associated Press, the head of the specialized maritime drone unit, Group 13,…
Russian authorities said Thursday they have imposed restrictions on Apple’s video calling service FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and communications online. State internet regulator Roskomnadzor alleged in a statement that the service is being βused to organize and conduct terrorist activities on the territory of the country,…
NEW YORK β The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday outlined a strategy to expand its use of artificial intelligence, building on the Trump administrationβs enthusiastic embrace of the rapidly advancing technology while raising questions about how health information would be protected. HHS billed the plan as a βfirst stepβ focused largely…
SANTIAGO β Chileβs Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along the Pacific coast. A rare confluence of factors makes the Atacama an ideal home for some of the worldβs biggest ground-based astronomical projects…
SAN FRANCISCO β A rare albino alligator named Claude who was beloved by fans around the world died Tuesday, according to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He was 30. The science museum in Golden Gate Park is popular with Bay Area school children and international tourists, and many kids over the years…
BERLIN β The European Space Agency said Thursday it would increase its budget for the next three years to almost 22.1 billion euros ($25.6 billion). Ahead of two-day agency conference starting Thursday in the German city of Bremen, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher had expressed concern that Europe could be left behind in space travel…
LOS ANGELES β When an AI-generated country song called βWalk My Walkβ hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artist named Breaking Rust β a white, digitally generated avatar that didn’t exist two months ago. But the song’s vocal phrasing, melodic shape and stylistic…
LOS ANGELES β When an AI-generated country song called βWalk My Walkβ hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artist named Breaking Rust β a white, digitally generated avatar that didn’t exist two months ago. But the song’s vocal phrasing, melodic shape and stylistic…
