Author: admin

Hundreds of survivors of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing have filed a lawsuit against Britain's government intelligence agency MI5, their lawyers said.Three main firms - Hudgell Solicitors, Slater & Gordon and Broudie Jackson Canter - said in a statement on Sunday that they represented more than 250 victims of the attack and the families of those killed, and lodged a collective complaint with the Investigative Powers Tribunal. , an independent judicial body that examines complaints against British intelligence.“As this is an ongoing legal matter, we are neither able to provide further details, nor comment further, at this stage,” the group's statement read.The lawsuit comes a year after an independent public inquiry found that MI5, the national security service, failed to act on...

The Biden administration will award up to $6.4 billion in grants to Samsung, one of the world's largest chipmakers, the latest in a series of awards intended to support domestic production of cutting-edge semiconductors.The money will help Samsung, the South Korean company, finance its new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, and expand an existing site in nearby Austin. Samsung will now build an additional manufacturing plant and upgrade a facility under construction in Taylor. It will increase its investments in Texas to about $45 billion, up from the $17 billion announced more than two years ago, administration officials said Sunday.Federal officials said the grants would help create a U.S. hub for cutting-edge semiconductor development and manufacturing. In addition to produ...

Israel's allies on Monday strongly urged Israel not to retaliate against Iran over the weekend's missile and drone attack, instead calling for an easing of tensions that have gripped the Middle East.The Iranian air assault – itself a retaliation for an attack that killed Iranian commanders in Syria – was the first time Tehran launched open attacks on Israel from its own territory. While some far-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government called for a strong response, the United States, the Group of 7, the European Union and the United Nations secretary general were among those advising restraint.Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken stressed the need to prevent further escalation in a flurry of phone calls Sunday with his counterparts in Egypt, Saudi Arabia...

“There's no need to get technical about it,” said Ellie Phillips, a preventative dentist based in Austin. “But I would recommend noting whether it's something affecting the front teeth or the back of the mouth. Is it on the outside, which is on the cheek side, or is it on the tongue side?”Visual aids such as x-rays or images from an intraoral camera, or even simply looking in the mirror, can also help demystify what is happening in the mouth.Don't feel pressured to agree to anything, not even cleaning.Your dentist should be able to explain why particular problem areas need specific treatments, said Alyson Leffel, director of patient advocacy and social work at NYU College of Dentistry. And it's perfectly reasonable to ask them for time to research and think about your op...

After Iran's attack, Israel weighs its options.

The Biden administration will award up to $6.6 billion in grants to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the leading maker of the most advanced microchips, in an effort to bring some of the most cutting-edge semiconductor technologies to the United States.The funds, which come from the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, will help support the construction of TSMC's first major U.S. hub, in Phoenix. The company has already committed to building two plants at the site and will use some of the grant money to build a third plant in Phoenix, U.S. officials said Sunday. TSMC will also increase its total investments in the United States to more than $65 billion, up from $40 billion.Bringing the world's most sophisticated chip manufacturing to the United States has been a major ...

On Sunday the hospital waiting room was silent: there was no crowd of relatives, no sea of ​​patients. Israeli air defenses had just repelled a large-scale Iranian attack, recording only one serious casualty.But there was no sense that a crisis had been averted outside the pediatric intensive care unit at Soroka Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Instead, tension filled the air until the ward doors opened and a panting mother stepped out, her face contorted. Then raw emotion quickly took over as she collapsed into a chair, crying.While Israel suffered little significant damage overnight, this family suffered a devastating blow. Amina al-Hasoni, 7 years old, was clinging to life and was the only serious victim of the Iranian barrage. And if not for systemic inequ...

The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from the wealthy Sackler family, which controlled the company at the center of the opioid epidemic, and to remove the family's name from endowment funds.The petition filed Thursday by the Academy in Superior Court in Washington, D.C., seeks to change the terms of the donations so the institution can use them for scientific studies, projects and educational activities.The move follows a New York Times report last year that examined donations from several Sacklers, including an executive at Purdue Pharma, which made the painkiller OxyContin that has long been blamed for fueling the crisis of opioids that has claimed thousands of lives.“The notoriety of the Sackler name has made it i...

In front of cameras and a crowd of nearly 300 guests, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, rushed to the far end of a polo field in South Florida on Friday.“The Duke of Sussex could score a goal!” shouted an announcer over a loudspeaker at the Royal Salute Polo Challenge to Benefit Sentebale, attended by spectators including Serena Williams and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Netflix film crews. The streamer is producing a polo-related project starring Harry and Meghan that was announced Thursday and will be filmed in Wellington, an affluent area near Palm Beach known for its equestrian scene.The announcer and many in the audience groaned loudly when Harry missed his shot. He wore a blue and white shirt with the number 2 on it, along with the logo for Sentebale, a charity he founded to support ...

Computers seem methodical, deliberate, and utterly predictable. But they can also behave in completely random ways. As researchers build ever more powerful machines, a key question is: what role will randomness play?On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that this year's Turing Prize will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born theoretical computer mathematician and computer scientist who specializes in randomness.Often called the Nobel Prize in computing, the Turing Prize carries a prize of $1 million. The award is named after Alan Turing, the British mathematician who helped lay the foundations for modern computing in the mid-20th century.Other recent winners include Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, who...