Source: Evening Standard
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Friday 16 February 2024 17:36:34
OpenAI Reveals Sora Text-To-Video AI Tool
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has unveiled the company’s new text-to-video AI tool called Sora.
The company behind ChatGPT gave just a few people access to the tool which creates video clips up to one-minute long, but without audio.
Videos created by OpenAI itself include one with woolly mammoths walking through the snow, a woman walking down a street in Tokyo, and an animated fluffy monster sat by a candle.
Amid the excitement though there have been warnings from users on social media site ‘X’ who say the tool could be used to produce misinformation or deep fake footage.
Two weeks after the release of the Apple Vision Pro, some users have revealed that they have already returned the $3,500 mixed-reality headset.
People have reported getting bad headaches and motion sickness from using the device, as well as red, bloodshot eyes.
Apple lets customers return any product within 14 days of purchase.
Users have been sharing recordings of how they’ve been using the headset, by doing things like virtually ‘pinning’ screens around their house.
A UK charity has been using virtual reality headsets to teach children about climate change.
Freddie Watson from the Blue Marine Foundation told Tech & Science Daily about their project called ‘The Sea We Breathe’, designed to teach children about ‘blue carbon’, which is carbon stored in the seabed as a means to offset emissions.
The experience is set to be accessible to over 800 UK schools and is narrated by actor Helena Bonham-Carter.
Research suggests a 20-second blast of ultrasound could boost the motility of sperm, and potentially be used to improve fertility rates.
The study, carried out by researchers at Melbourne’s Monash University, found that using high-frequency ultrasound waves on sperm can boost their ability to swim by up to 266%.
The university says about 30% of infertility comes down to low sperm motility, which means the sperm aren’t strong enough swimmers to make it through to the woman’s reproductive tract.
