Brazil’s Bolsonaro wants police in schools, discipline code…
May 2, 2019
Although experiments began in previous years, the quasi-military approach is one of the most visible educational efforts being championed under new President Jair Bolsonaro... A 2015 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ranked educational performance in Brazil as 63rd out of 72 countries and regions. Schools now being co-run by police are modeled on Brazil’s exclusive military colleges, which tend to perform better than most public schools...
Trump invites Hungarian leader Orban to May 13 meeting…
May 2, 2019
The meeting in Washington will cover issues like energy security, defense cooperation, bilateral relations and regional security, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs tweeted...
Trump spoils Xi’s Belt and Road Forum, without even attending…
May 2, 2019
The Trump administration refused to send a delegation to the Beijing gathering, and well-known American business figures stayed away. Even the media center seemed short on American reporters. It was a significant difference from the first summit and reflects just how contentious the Belt and Road Initiative -- a massive infrastructure plan that seeks to connect China and Europe by highways, rail lines and ports -- has become in the eyes of the U.S...
Women may soon start using AI to tell good (human) eggs from bad…
May 2, 2019
...a Toronto-based startup called Future Fertility unveiled the world’s first fully automated egg-scoring algorithm. The company’s cofounders say its neural network, dubbed Violet, can predict successful fertilization with 90 percent accuracy based on a single image..
Google will soon let you auto-delete your location tracking data…
May 2, 2019
You’ll be able to delete the data after either three or 18 months, and it will then continue to be deleted on a rolling basis over time. The search giant’s location tracking practices got it into trouble last year when it emerged that Google would continue to track you even when you turn off the Location History setting...
China has set its sights on deep space. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is planning a robotic mission that would return samples from an asteroid and visit a comet — and it has invited international researchers to take part…
May 2, 2019
One-Third of Exoplanets Could Be Water Worlds With Oceans Hundreds of Miles Deep…
May 2, 2019
A new statistical analysis suggests seas hundreds of miles deep cover up to 35 percent of distant worlds...
Saudi Arabia assists Iranian oil tanker in Red Sea, no injuries
May 2, 2019
“The kingdom received an official request for help, through its permanent delegation to the United Nations in New York, from the Iranian charge d’affaires in the Iranian delegation,” SPA quoted a coast guard spokesman as saying. “All necessary precautions were taken for the safety of the crew and to ensure there is no environmental damage and to provide assistance,” it added.
$356 million in cryptocurrency stolen in first three months of 2019…
May 2, 2019
... and it's going to need laundering.
🔴 WATCH LIVE: London Westminster Magistrates Court to hear US extradition request for Assange…
May 2, 2019
How the Air Force Would Battle China if War Came (Think F-22s)…
May 2, 2019
It's innovation born of necessity. "When we look at our pacing threat of China, we got to think differently about how we do things," Brown said...
Bear repellent used in Antifa, Proud Boy supporters clash…
May 2, 2019
Portland, Ore., police responded to a brawl outside a bar Wednesday night, where members of far-left Antifa clashed with those from the conservative Proud Boys group, according to reports... No arrests were made and no force was used by police during any of the free speech assemblies, according to a statement late Wednesday from the Portland Police Department.
Info on UFO sightings not to go public, Navy says…
May 2, 2019
A Navy spokesman told The Washington Post that the reporting on UFOs would fall under "privileged and classified information" so that military aviation safety organizations can “preserve the free and honest prioritization and discussion of safety among aircrew.”
Amazon’s facial-recognition technology is supercharging local police…
May 2, 2019
Almost overnight, deputies saw their investigative powers supercharged, allowing them to scan for matches of a suspect’s face across more than 300,000 mug shots taken at the county jail since 2001...
McDonald’s deploys 700 ‘AI’-powered menu boards…
May 2, 2019
...artificial intelligence to automate the upselling of menu items based on time of day, trending items and weather.
That's not AI. That's a simple computer program.
20-year-old Pennsylvania man arrested after he took 4-year-old girl bound and stuffed her in trunk at grandparent’s home…
May 2, 2019
Investigators said that Dewald took the girl to his grandparent's house where he locked her inside a wooden chest, telling her he would be home from work around noon until she somehow escaped around 9:30 a.m. According to an affidavit obtained by the Associated Press, he told police he "might" have touched the girl inappropriately once in his room at his grandparents' house.
Maine becomes first state to ban Styrofoam food containers, effective 2021…
May 2, 2019
The law, which will go into effect January 1, 2021, prohibits restaurants, caterers, coffee shops and grocery stores from using the to-go foam containers because they cannot be recycled in Maine.
Israel targets Hamas in Gaza after ‘balloon bombs’ launched…
May 2, 2019
The Israeli military says it struck several Hamas militant sites in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons with explosives launched from the strip. The military says it hit the sites in northern Gaza Strip early on Thursday. It says that afterward, two rockets were fired out of Gaza. There were no injuries on either side.
Four arrested after student’s MAGA hat is allegedly stolen…
May 2, 2019
The incident happened after the conservative student says he attempted to have a conversation with leftist protesters. Four students, including the one who allegedly grabbed and kicked the hat, were arrested.
CBP Officers Seize $3.8M Worth of Hard Drugs…
May 2, 2019
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, officers at the Port of Nogales seized nearly 268 pounds of heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine since Thursday from three separate drug seizures.