Biden administration trying to fix Obama’s Syria blunders with the same team that created them

Syria

2021-01-28 / www.jihadwatch.org

With Antony Blinken confirmed by the US Senate as the new Secretary of State, some analysts hope US policy in Syria will not revert to what it was when Obama was in office. This came in the wake of reports ...

Israel's top general says its military is refreshing operational plans against Iran

Israel

2021-01-27 / www.reuters.com

Israel’s top general said on Tuesday that its military was refreshing its operational plans against Iran and that any U.S. return to a 2015 nuclear accord with Tehran would be “wrong.”

The remarks are an apparent signal to U.S. President Joe ...

« Le gaz naturel, la vraie cause de l’agressivité diplomatique et militaire de la Turquie en Méditerranée ? »

Oil & Gaz

2020-09-05 / www.artofuss.blog

Avec la nécessité de trouver une source d’énergie plus propre que le pétrole ou le charbon, le gaz naturel a pris de plus en plus d’importance. Il est en effet considéré comme l’un des combustibles fossiles les plus propres parce ...

The Pendulum: How Russia Sways Its Way to More Influence in Libya

Libya

2020-07-20 / www.warontherocks.com

The Russian state, despite having the capacity to do so, never made the strategic decision to engage head-on in a long bout of war and ensure that Haftar triumphs in western Libya. Instead, Moscow has been working quietly to ...

Cette très intime relation entre Ankara et Doha qui fracture le monde arabo-musulman de la Syrie à la Libye

Turkey

2020-07-03 / www.Lefigaro.fr

France Weighs Its Love of Liberty in Fight Against Coronavirus

Pandemic

2020-04-17 / www.nytimes.com

The French are cautiously considering digital tracking, which has proved effective in Asia. But can a country that so prizes personal freedom and privacy ever accept it?

As France sought clues last month on how to tame the coronavirus, experts looked ...

Airbus reaches deal to settle corruption probes

Industry

2020-01-28 / www.ft.com

Airbus has agreed to settle a bribery and corruption probe with regulators in the UK, France and the US, in a move that could see the aerospace group pay billions of dollars in penalties.
Airbus said it has reached an ...

Crypto scam offers modern twist on classic pyramid fraud

cybercrime

2019-12-19 / www.ft.com

 Bulgarian entrepreneur accused of helping to trick millions of investors.

It was billed as an exciting new cryptocurrency that would one day become more popular than bitcoin and turn myriad small investors into multimillionaires. But OneCoin, launched by a Bulgarian entrepreneur ...

Algorithms drive online discrimination, academic warns

Social Media

2019-12-12 / www.ft.com

Sandra Wachter says AI uses sensitive personal traits to target or exclude people in ads.

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Theresa May's big golden goodbyes bill

UK

2019-08-05 / www.politico.eu

LONDON - British taxpayers paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds in golden goodbyes during the chaotic Theresa May premiership - including to Boris Johnson and many of his new top team.
Almost £850,000 was paid out to ministers who ...

It's Called Artificial Intelligence—but What Is Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence

2020-05-19 / www.wired.com

Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most sophisticated learning system—the mind of a baby.

Gurgling infants might seem like no match ...

Alabama High School Student Names NASA's Mars Helicopter

Aerospace

2020-04-29 / www.nasa.gov

Destined to become the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet, NASA's Mars Helicopter officially has received a new name: Ingenuity.
Vaneeza Rupani, a junior at Tuscaloosa County ...

Study analyzes contamination in drug manufacturing plants

Medical Research

2020-04-27 / www.mit.edu

Report offers guidelines to help prevent viruses from tainting biopharmaceutical drugs.

Over the past few decades, there have been a handful of incidents in which manufacturing processes for making protein drugs became contaminated with viruses at manufacturing plants. These were all ...

3 Ways Big Data and Machine Learning Revolutionize Drug Discovery

Pharmaceutics

2020-03-16 / www.biopharmatrend.com

The Internet media is trending now with numerous mentions of “big data”, “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence” all together destined to revolutionize pharmaceutical and biotech industries and the way drugs are discovered. These new technologies are believed to ...