Für Fans der Kult-Saga “Star Wars” hat das Warten ein Ende: In Los Angeles hat das mit Spannung erwartete Lucas Museum of Narrative Art seine Pforten geöffnet. Eingefleischte “Star-Wars”-Fans und Kunstliebhaber strömten am Dienstag zur feierlichen Eröffnung des von “Star Wars”-Erfinder George Lucas und seiner Ehefrau Mellody Hobson gegründeten Museums für die Kunst des Geschichtenerzählens. […]
Read MoreZwischen Zuckerbrot und Peitsche: US-Präsident Donald Trump hat einen neuen Gesprächsanlauf mit dem Iran bekanntgegeben – nachdem er der Islamischen Republik zuvor erneut mit “Vernichtung” gedroht hatte. Trump sprach am Dienstag in New York von einem “sehr produktiven Treffen”. In seiner Rede bei der UN-Generaldebatte hatte er gesagt, der Iran habe die Wahl zwischen “Größe” […]
Read MoreAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended new draft social media regulations after Washington warned the draft legislation could lead to censorship. In a statement on Tuesday, the US embassy in Canberra raised “serious concerns” over draft laws that would place a “duty of care” on social media giants. Asked about those comments, Albanese told journalists […]
Read MorePresident Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the US government would rename artificial intelligence “super intelligence” in official communications, as world leaders jostled over how to address the dangers of the fast-advancing technology. AI has become a major topic at the UN General Assembly after incidents of the technology falling out of the control of […]
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Paris prosecutors said Tuesday they had opened several probes after receiving complaints concerning women filmed on the street without their consent using smart glasses. Anyone wearing smart glasses can take photos, film videos, listen to music, make phone calls, translate text or interact with an AI assistant. Meta’s smart spectacles, developed in partnership with Ray-Ban […]
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Polls opened Tuesday in the only American election that really matters: Fat Bear Week. While the United States might be gearing up for midterm ballots that will decide who runs Washington, hundreds of thousands of people were readying to vote on animals gorging themselves in rural Alaska. In a contest that has rapidly become one […]
Read MorePresident Donald Trump revealed that US and Iranian officials held talks Tuesday for the first time in months, even as he told the United Nations he was still deciding whether to “annihilate” Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took part in a meeting with Trump’s roving envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner on the […]
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President Donald Trump laid out a vision on Tuesday of a militaristic US unbound by international rules in a UN speech contrasting starkly with pleas at the world body for cooperation and restraint. Trump insisted the United States will not join global regulation of AI and urged countries to abandon the International Criminal Court which […]
Read MorePresident Donald Trump on Tuesday urged a US-led coalition in Latin America to impose sanctions on 24 criminal networks, just hours after denouncing regional drug cartels as “the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere.””I’m asking all nations in the Shield of the Americas to formally designate narco-terrorists as common threats to stability,” Trump told a gathering […]
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