A day after Apple announced facial recognition system to unlock iPhone X, a US senator has written a letter to CEO Tim Cook, conveying concerns on users’ privacy and security. According to a report in appleinsider.com on Thursday, Senator Al Franken (Democrat-Minnesota) has asked several questions related to Apple’s implementation of Face ID technology. “While […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants Rohingya refugees helped “regardless of politics,” his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday in reply to a question about India’s policy on those fleeing Myanmar. Dujarric said that the reports about Rohingya’s plight and pictures of them fleeing were heart-rending and these are very vulnerable people and deserved to be helped. […]
Cuban authorities have evacuated 700,000 people from the country’s northeastern coast ahead of the category 5 hurricane Irma hitting the island nation, authorities said. The eye of the hurricane was expected to pass between the island of Hispaniola, home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday morning, reports […]
Film: “Logan Lucky”; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Cast: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Katherine Waterston, Dwight Yoakam, Sebastian Stan, Brian Gleeson, Jack Quaid, Hilary Swank, Daniel Craig and Jesse White; Rating: ** A goofy heist film, “Logan Lucky” is similar yet a far resemblance from director Steven Soderbergh’s repertoire of films. […]
Dozens of South Korean protesters and police were injured in clashes on Thursday during a rally against the full deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile shield. Some 400 residents of Seongju City, who live close to the site where the THAAD system will be installed, clashed with the security forces […]
Taking a cue from global markets, the key Indian equity market indices on Thursday opened higher. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 31,661.97 points on Wednesday, opened higher at 31,738.74 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting at 31,758.54 points, up by 96.57 points, or 0.31 per cent. At the […]
The “potentially catastrophic” hurricane Irma, the strongest Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history, after causing widespread damage in the northern Caribbean islands was now moving towards Puerto Rico, according to weather authorities. Irma’s eye is located about 80 km (50 miles) north of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) reported late […]
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman plans to announce the filing of a multistate lawsuit to protect beneficiaries of a program shielding children brought to the US illegally on Wednesday afternoon. Immigration advocates, Dreamers, labour unions, and the chancellor of City University of New York will join Schneiderman at the news conference, Xinhua news […]
The Syrian regime used chemical weapons on at least four occasions this year, including in a sarin gas attack that left dozens of civilians dead, the UN unveiled in a report. In a report on human rights violations in the Syrian conflict published on Wednesday, the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry said violence throughout […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned North Korea against continuing its current missile and nuclear weapons development policies. Prior to leaving for Vladivostok to participate in the Eastern Economic Forum,Abe on Wednesday said that Japan would coordinate with Russia and international community to make North Korea understand that there would be no future for the […]