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SAN FRANCISCO — Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit Global Witness. The technology and environmental watchdog group submitted ads that it designed to test how well systems at social media companies work in detecting different types of election misinformation.The group, which did a similar investigation two years ago, did find that the companies — especially Facebook — have improved their content-moderation systems since then.But it called out TikTok for approving four of the eight…

Oct. 11-17, 2024Effigies of the mythical demon king Ravana went up in flames to mark the end of Dussehra festivities in India, SpaceX’s mega rocket booster returned to the launch pad where it was captured during a test flight in Texas and victims of a tanker explosion received treatment inside an ambulance at the Aminu Kano teaching hospital in Nigeria.Fans of former One Direction singer Liam Payne gathered to honor him a day after he was found dead at a hotel in Argentina. And a TV reporter put on makeup while Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump delivered a…

Pakistan vs England, 2nd Test Day 4, Live Updates© AFP Pakistan vs England, 2nd Test Day 4, Live Updates: England will be resuming Day 4 of the ongoing second Test against Pakistan from 36/2 in Multan. At Stumps, Ollie Pope (21*) and Joe Root (12*) remained unbeaten at the crease as the visitors need 261 runs more to win the match. Earlier, Pakistan set a 297-run target for England after grabbing a handy lead of 296 runs with the help of Salman Agha’s 63 in their second innings. Agha and tail-ender Sajid Khan added 65 runs for the 9th…

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris described Thursday as a good day for the world after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.Sinwar, considered the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel that prompted war in Gaza and wider regional conflict, was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Thursday.Biden, in a lengthy written statement, said he had directed U.S. intelligence officials to help Israel locate and track Sinwar as well as other Hamas leaders hiding underground.”To my Israeli friends, this is no doubt a day of relief…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will both be scouring for votes in Michigan on Friday as they try to lock down support in this key political battleground.Harris, the Democratic vice president, is scheduled to begin her day in Grand Rapids before holding events in Lansing and Oakland County, which is northwest of Detroit.Trump, the Republican former president, has his own event in Oakland County in the afternoon before holding a rally in Detroit in the evening.Michigan is one of three “blue wall” states that, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, will help…

India’s wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant hobbled off the field due to a knee injury on Day 2 of the first Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru. Pant’s injury meant that substitute wicket-keeper Dhruv Jurel stood behind the stumps for India before the end of play on Day 2. On Day 3, however, Jurel continued to deputies for Pant who remained under observation of BCCI’s medical team. The Indian board issued a statement on Friday morning, ruling Pant out for the entire day’s play. “UPDATE: Mr Rishabh Pant will not keep wickets on Day 3. The BCCI Medical Team is…

BTS member J-Hope discharged from militaryK-pop star J-Hope, a member of the boy band supergroup BTS, was greeted by one of his bandmates and cheering fans as he was discharged from South Korea’s military on Thursday after 18 months of duty.October 17, 2024 Source link

LAS VEGAS — Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown painted each other as extremists Thursday night in the presidential battleground state where the Nov. 5 election could determine control of both the White House and the Senate.The election pits Rosen, a first-term senator seen as a political consensus-builder, against Brown, a retired Army captain who bears scars from battlefield injuries and is endorsed by former President Donald Trump.In their only face-to-face debate before early voting begins Saturday, Brown repeatedly aligned himself with Trump on domestic and foreign policy while calling Rosen a political insider and…

With the advent of generative AI and machine learning, new opportunities for enhancement became available for different industries and processes. During re:Invent 2023, we launched AWS HealthScribe, a HIPAA eligible service that empowers healthcare software vendors to build their clinical applications to use speech recognition and generative AI to automatically create preliminary clinician documentation. In addition to AWS HealthScribe, we also launched Amazon Q Business, a generative AI-powered assistant that can perform functions such as answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information that are in your enterprise systems. AWS HealthScribe combines speech…

Eintracht Frankfurt and in-form forward Omar Marmoush visit wounded Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday battling the weight of history. Frankfurt have lost their past 10 games at the BayArena, last avoiding defeat in a 1-1 draw in 2014, when current Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso was still playing for Bayern Munich. Despite that lean run, Eintracht meet the reigning German league and cup holders full of confidence. Frankfurt scored in added time to draw 3-3 at home against leaders Bayern last time out and remain a point behind in third. Marmoush has eight goals and four assists in…