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LONDON — Social media users in the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or leave up others that may violate them.An “out of court dispute settlement body” named the Appeals Center Europe said Tuesday it has been certified by Irish regulators to act as a referee on content moderation disputes across the 27-nation EU, starting with cases involving Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. The center is similar to Meta’s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body set up in 2020 that acts like a supreme court for…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon authorities said Monday they had removed another 302 people from the state’s voter rolls after determining they didn’t provide proof of citizenship when they were registered to vote, in the latest revelation of improper voter registrations stemming from clerical errors at the state DMV.Monday’s announcement, in addition to the 1,259 people whose voter registrations have already been inactivated because of the issue, brings the total number of mistaken registrations to 1,561. It came the same day the DMV released a report about the errors, which were first acknowledged by authorities last month.The mistake occurred in part…

Prolific batter Sarfaraz Khan will miss Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy opener against Baroda from October 11. The Mumbai batter, who played a match-winning 222 not out in their Irani Cup triumph last week, will be at the National Cricket Academy, according to sources. The Mumbai selectors picked the squad for their first two matches. Defending champions Mumbai face Baroda in an away fixture from October 11, while they face Maharashtra at home from October 18, which will coincide with the India-New Zealand first Test in Bengaluru from October 16. Sarfaraz is expected to retain his place in the India…

3 min read Last Updated : Oct 08 2024 | 1:37 PM IST Allied Digital Services stock price skyrocketed after the company won an order worth Rs 430 crore for ‘Pune Safe City Project’. Allied Digital Services share price surged 15.17 per cent at Rs 282 per share on the BSE in Tuesday’s intraday trade.  At 1:31 PM, the stock price of the company was trading 12.91 per cent at Rs 276.45 a piece on the BSE. By comparison, the BSE’s Sensex was up 0.61 per cent to 81,547.60 level.  Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp …

Hitachi Rail, a global transportation company powering railway systems in over 50 countries, is integrating NVIDIA AI technology to lower maintenance costs for rail operators, reduce train idling time and improve transit reliability for passengers. The company is adopting NVIDIA IGX — an industrial-grade, enterprise-level platform that delivers high-bandwidth sensor processing, powerful AI compute, functional safety capabilities and enterprise security — into its new HMAX platform to process sensor and camera data in real time. By removing the lag time between data collection and analysis, the HMAX platform will enable Hitachi Rail clients to more quickly detect train tracks that…

The U.S. Marshals have arrested a man who has eluded authorities for five months after they say he shot somebody in the head before setting them on fire, authorities said.Michael H. Hurley, 37, has been wanted by the Cleveland Division on Police in Ohio for aggravated murder since May when, according to Cleveland Police, Hurley shot somebody in the head and then set them on fire.“On May 8, 2024, third district officers received a radio assignment to respond to a residence in the 1700 block of E. 88th Place in connection with a dead body. Cleveland fire was already on…

Illustration: Ajay Mohanty2 min read Last Updated : Oct 07 2024 | 9:01 PM IST More than 13,000 internship opportunities have been posted by various companies on the PM Internship portal, four days since its launch, with maximum posts by Jubilant FoodWorks, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., and Tech Mahindra, sources in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs said. Around 200 companies have so far registered on the portal, including Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank Limited, and several other top CSR spenders in the country. The internship opportunities are spread across sectors including banking and financial services, oil,…

NEW YORK — When Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with podcaster Alex Cooper, the conversation didn’t start by parsing policy positions. The goal, Cooper told the Democratic nominee, was “to get to know you as a person.”And that was just fine with Harris, who said she was on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast because “one of the best ways to communicate with people is to be real.”Long past the midway point of her unexpected presidential campaign and with voting already underway, Harris is still introducing herself to Americans who will determine her fate in this…

Gaya: Bihar is performing well in basic indicators like education and health, and it is likely to catch up with the rest of the country in a couple of years, NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam said.”Bihar will catch up with the rest of the country in a couple of years. The state is performing well in terms of basic indicators like education and health. A number of aspirational blocks and districts will move on to become inspirational blocks and districts in the very near future due to improved governance and service delivery,” Subrahmanyam said on Monday. He said Bihar is…

On a sticky wicket after a mixed start to the campaign, India will look to fix their batting struggles to bolster their net run rate when they take on bottom-placed Sri Lanka in their third and penultimate Group A match of the T20 Women’s World Cup on Wednesday. It has not been smooth sailing for the Indians in the showpiece event so far, having lost to New Zealand by 58 runs in their tournament-opener and then scampering home in 18.5 overs against arch-rivals Pakistan while chasing a modest 105. India’s main problem in the tournament so far is…