Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images...LONDON: Facebook owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind.
The company’s research division said in a blog post that its
Commercial, private space flights and missions spearhead space based economy...JEDDAH: “Space: The final frontier,” are words many Star Trek fans worldwide know by heart. Though humanity is not yet in the year 2265, it’s an exciting time for the space industry as breakthrough aerospace discoveries are being made, a booming space economy is being established,
Self Governance in Times of Blockade: El Sur Existe Commune...El Sur Existe [The South Exists] is an urban and periurban commune in Valencia, Venezuela’s third largest city. Its communards have displayed impressive flexibility and creativity in these times of imperialist blockade. They initially worked to develop an economic foundation for their commune
Beijing demands that US stop provoking China...BEIJING, March 30. /TASS/. The US Armed Forces must stop provoking China in the South China Sea, otherwise they will bear responsibility for any potential incidents, Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman Tan Kefei warned on Thursday.
The comment was Tan’s response to a US Navy vessel that alle
The Cuban Collapse ...Cubans face a precarious present and an uncertain future. While the #government# focuses on the recovery of the #tourism# sector, people’s living conditions are driving the largest migratory exodus in the country’s history..
Inflation, the economic blockade and mismanagement mean many ar
Political Repression in Cuba Ahead of the 2023 Parliamentary Elections...On 26 March 2023, voters will elect 470 deputies to #Cuba#’s National Assembly of People’s Power, who, in addition to fulfilling legislative functions during their five year term, will be nominating #Cuba#’s next head of #state#. The #government# has characterized #Cuba#’s political sy
The economic situation in Cuba is bad...For Jose Guerra Ferrer, a Havana based industrial engineer, “the economic situation in #Cuba# is bad”. “I hope it can be addressed by the new parliament,” he says, with reference to national assembly elections this weekend.
In recent years, #Cuba#’s parliament has implem
Cuba marks six decades under US sanctions...Decreed by U.S. president John F. Kennedy on February 3, 1962, the embargo on all bilateral trade came into effect four days later.
Its purpose, said Kennedy’s executive order, was to reduce the threat posed by the island nation’s “alignment with the communist powers.”
5 NEW FOREIGN COMPANIES WILL OPEN IN CUBA...HAVANA, March 19 The first business projects with 5 new foreign firms in the wholesale and retail trade will begin operations between April and May, according to several #news#-Cuba-en.html target=_blank>#Cuba#n media reports this Saturday.
The #news# stems from a meeting that took place on Friday at the headquarters of the Ministry
'Netanyahu made a gross miscalculation on judicial overhaul,' says senior US official...A senior #Biden# administration official said #Israel#i’s prime minister made a “gross miscalculation” in his handling of the judicial reform plan, in particular with regards to anxieties in the White House regarding the implications of the overhaul.
Speaking with the left leaning F
AI could replace 300m jobs globally: Goldman Sachs ...RIYADH: Artificial Intelligence could take the place of 300 million full time #jobs# around the world, investment bank Goldman Sachs has predicted in a new report.
Administrative and legal sectors will be at the highest risk, with 46 percent of administrative #jobs# and 44 percent of legal #jobs# riski
Iran hopes strategic pact with Russia finalized ‘in a month’...TEHRAN � #Iran#ian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Wednesday expressed hope that the long term strategic cooperation agreement between Tehran and Moscow will be finalized in “less than a month.”
“Reviews on the long term strategic cooperation agreement be
US, UK sanction 6 Syria linked Captagon traffickers...BEIRUT: The US and #UK# on Tuesday slapped sanctions on four Syrians and two Lebanese involved in manufacturing and trafficking the amphetamine drug Captagon, the two #government#s said. The six include cousins of Syrian President Bashar Assad and notorious Lebanese drug lynchpins.
Experts say Captagon
Ukrainians ask Zelensky not to use depleted uranium shells ...MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. A petition #ask#ing that the Ukrainian armed forces be barred from using depleted uranium ammunition has been registered on the website of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
Its author points to the danger of years long environmental pollution, ruining arable land and
Protest march against pension reform leads to serious unrest in France’s Lyon...LYON /#France#/, March 28. /TASS/. Radical demonstrators started riots during a protest march against pension reform in #France# s third most populous city of Lyon on Tuesday.
According to a TASS correspondent, police were forced to use tear gas after an unruly group of demonstrators had started to s
Burkina junta orders France 24 off air after Al Qaeda interview...OUAGADOUGOU: The military junta in Burkina Faso on Monday suspended all broadcasts by the #news#-France-en.html target=_blank>#France# 24 #news# channel in the west African country after it interviewed the head of Al Qaeda North Africa.
Burkina Faso, which witnessed two coups last year, is battling a jihadist insurgency that spilled over
Linguist says ChatGPT has invalidated Chomsky's ‘innate principles of language’...Artificial intelligence (#AI#) has been a subject of fascination and concern for many years. In previous interviews with renowned linguists Noam Chomsky and Ray Jackendoff, Tehran Times explored their views on the relationship between language and the mind, and how it relates to the study of #AI#. Today
Saudi Arabia’s ‘vision and generosity are very well suited’ to WHO’s work on global health issues, says WHO Foundation CEO...LONDON: The WHO Foundation was set up in 2020 during the COVID 19 pandemic to marshal new resources from philanthropists, foundations, businesses, and individuals to support the World Health Organization’s mission.
Both WHO, which is a specialized agency of the UN, and the WHO Foundation a
US has learned nothing from sad chapter of 21st century history: ex Italian diplomat ...“The U.S. political establishment has learned #nothing# from this sad chapter of 21st century history,” says Marco Carnelos who served as #Italy#’s special envoy for Syria and ambassador to #Iraq#.
By invading #Iraq# in 2003, Carnelos says, the U.S. had ambitions to reshape the Middle E
Putin calls West ‘instigators’ of conflict in Ukraine...MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. #Russia#n President Vladimir Putin sees Western countries as initiators and instigators of the conflict in Ukraine.
An armed coup that s where it all started. We were forced to protect the population of Crimea, and this way or another we ended up supporting Donbass. T
Russian diplomat points to problems underage Ukrainians are facing in EU countries...MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. The West’s sham concern over the fate of children who were evacuated by #Russia# from the zone of combat operations looks hypocritic and cynical amid that worsening catastrophic problems thousands of underage Ukrainians are facing in EU countries, #Russia#n Foreign Minist
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