West Bank Tensions – Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Woman, Hundreds Storm Al-Aqsa As tensions continue to escalate in the West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian woman north of Hebron (Al Khalil). 04/24/2024 - 4:08 am | View Link
Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman in Hebron, ban Muslims from Ibrahimi Mosque A 20-year-old Palestinian woman was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Wednesday near the village of Beit Ainun, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, WAFA agency reported. 04/24/2024 - 1:28 am | View Link
Israeli Forces Kill 14 Palestinians in Tense West Bank Military Operation Israeli forces on Saturday killed 14 Palestinians during a prolonged military raid near Tulkarm in the West Bank. The operation, which started early on Friday in the Nur Shams area, led to one of the ... 04/21/2024 - 7:35 pm | View Link
Israeli strikes in Rafah kill 18, mostly children, Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 18 people, including 14 children, health officials said Sunday. Meanwhile, the United States was on track to approve billions of ... 04/21/2024 - 3:07 pm | View Link
Israeli troops kill three Palestinian teenagers in West Bank Israel has killed three Palestinian teenagers during a raid in the occupied West Bank amid a surge in violence since 7 October. 04/21/2024 - 8:30 am | View Link
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Enlarge / A meeting of the UN Security Council on April 14. (credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia has plans to do just that.
Russia's vote against the resolution was no surprise.
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Logitech announced a new mouse last week. A company rep reached out to inform Ars of Logitech’s “newest wireless mouse.” The gadget’s product page reads the same as of this writing.
I’ve had good experience with Logitech mice, especially wireless ones, one of which I'm using now.
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Trendy, unproven "vampire facials" performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today.
Ars reported on the cluster last year when state health officials announced they were still identifying cases linked to the spa despite it being shut down in September 2018.
The HMD Pulse base model. [credit:
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HMD has been known as the manufacturer of Nokia-branded phones for years now, but now the company wants to start selling phones under its own brand. The first is the "HMD Pulse" line, a series of three low-end phones that are headed for Europe.
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In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud. On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models called OpenELM that are small enough to run directly on a smartphone.