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Online video games, the latest hunting grounds for drug cartels
Online video games, the latest hunting grounds for drug cartels
by  AFP

Narcotics police the world over are sprucing up their video game skills, as cartels go increasingly online to sell drugs and recruit dealers. Online games such as "Grand Theft Auto" or "World of Warcraft" provide perfect cover for cartels to discreetly sell drugs or find personnel.

US bans pharmacy Rite Aid from facial recognition use
US bans pharmacy Rite Aid from facial recognition use
by  AFP

Pharmacy group Rite Aid was ordered Tuesday to stop using facial recognition for the next five years by a US regulator, which said the company falsely identified consumers as shoplifters using the technology. But the technology "falsely flagged... consumers as matching someone who had previously been identified as a shoplifter or other troublemaker."

Meta accused of mishandling Israel-Hamas war posts
Meta accused of mishandling Israel-Hamas war posts
by  AFP

Meta's independent oversight board on Tuesday criticized the social media titan of removing posts that showed human suffering in the Middle East conflict. The board, set up by Meta in 2020 as a supreme court of sorts for the social media titan, overturned two post removal decisions, and urged the company to respond more quickly to changing circumstances in the war between Hamas and Israel.

The feline frontier: NASA sends cat video from deep space
The feline frontier: NASA sends cat video from deep space
by  AFP

NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video. "One of the goals is to demonstrate the ability to transmit broadband video across millions of miles.

Apple pauses US sale of latest Watch models over patent clash
Apple pauses US sale of latest Watch models over patent clash
by  AFP

Apple on Monday said it will stop selling some of its smartwatch models in the United States while it fights a patent battle over technology for detecting blood oxygen levels. A presidential review is underway regarding the USITC order regarding imports of Apple Watch models with the blood oxygen sensing feature at issue in the patent dispute.

Drones help solve forest carbon capture riddle
Drones help solve forest carbon capture riddle
by  AFP

On a hillside overlooking cabbage fields outside the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, a drone's rotors begin to whir, lifting it over a patch of forest. We would walk around in a circle, we would measure all the trees in a circle," explained Stephen Elliott, research director at Chiang Mai University's Forest Restoration Research Unit (FORRU).