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Federal Monitor Slams NYPD Unit Whose Aggressive Policing ProPublica Exposed New York City

Federal Monitor Slams NYPD Unit Whose Aggressive Policing ProPublica Exposed

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. What Happened: A monitor appointed by a federal court has found that a New York City Police Department unit has been unjustly stopping and searching New Yorkers, almost…
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June 16, 2025
Robots that feel heat, pain, and pressure? This new “skin” makes it possible Moravec‘s Paradox

Robots that feel heat, pain, and pressure? This new “skin” makes it possible

Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic 'skin' that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their surroundings in a way that's similar to humans. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and University College London (UCL), developed the flexible, conductive…
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June 16, 2025
The ‘unsustainable’ reason behind who can have nuclear weapons, and who can’t Nuclear Weapons

The ‘unsustainable’ reason behind who can have nuclear weapons, and who can’t

Iran's health ministry said 224 people have been killed by Israel's attacks, while Israel said 13 have been killed by Iranian strikes. Hundreds of people have been wounded in both countries. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the goal of Friday's strikes was partially to wipe out Iran's nuclear program,…
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June 16, 2025
Chinese phone maker Transsion rapidly expanding electric scooter business in Africa Electric Scooter

Chinese phone maker Transsion rapidly expanding electric scooter business in Africa

Transsion Mobile Phones Credit: Transsion Official Website Chinese phone maker Transsion has recently established a mobility division to explore opportunities in electric two-wheelers and related sectors. The company, which makes around half of the mobile phones sold in Africa, is rapidly scaling its electric two-wheeler operations across Africa and in…
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June 16, 2025
Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you cannot assassinate your way to peace Censored Internet

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you cannot assassinate your way to peace

In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officers was that the key to defeating the Palestinian Liberation Organisation was to assassinate its then-leader Yasser Arafat. The elimination of Arafat, the Shin Bet commander Yehuda Arbel wrote in his diary, was “a precondition to finding a…
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June 16, 2025
Singapore Trims Housing Pipeline as Market Cools and More Asia Real Estate Headlines China's Social Credit System

Singapore Trims Housing Pipeline as Market Cools and More Asia Real Estate Headlines

Singapore Minister for National Development Chee Hong Tat The Singapore government cuts back on its residential land sales programme, with that policy move leading today’s headline roundup. Also in the news, Malaysia’s IOI Properties plans an SGX-listed REIT and China’s COSCO joins the consortium to buy Li Ka-shing’s ports. Singapore…
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June 16, 2025
GA-ASI Announces New PELE Small UAS for International Customers Space Debris

GA-ASI Announces New PELE Small UAS for International Customers

SAN DIEGO, CA, June 16, 2025 - (ACN Newswire) - General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), the world leader in unmanned aircraft from the iconic Predator® to the YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft, has unveiled a new small uncrewed launched effect with widespread multi-mission capabilities for the global aerospace and defense market. Inspired…
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June 16, 2025