Videos of Iranian security forces dispersing protesters across the country using live ammunition, water cannons and tear gas have been widely circulated on social media, causing the death toll since…
Microsoft Corp has hired former United States Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether the use of facial recognition technology developed by an Israeli startup it funded complies with its ethics principles, the US technology giant said. AnyVision, based outside Tel Aviv, has come under scrutiny following reports by Haaretz’s TheMarker business newspaper and NBC News that its technology is used to monitor Palestinians who live in the occupied West Bank. AnyVision, which denied to NBC…
The crowded Indian metropolis of Mumbai has been ranked the worst place for driving on a list of 100 global cities, based on congestion, fatalities and affordability. At the other end of the spectrum, the desirability of being on the road in oil-centric western Canada landed Calgary with the number-one spot. Among the other cities in the top 10 were Dubai, Ottawa, El Paso, Gothenburg and Dusseldorf. Some of the worst-ranked included Moscow,…
