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Thousands of students protest in Barcelona for Catalan independence
He also said it was now up to the Catalan parliament to move forward with a mandate to split from Spain following an independence referendum that took place October 1. That is assuming President Carles Puigdemont's Democrats don't blink. An opinion poll published by the El Periodico newspaper on Sunday showed a snap election would probably have results similar to the last ballot, in 2015, when a... [Full Article...]
USA stands shoulder to shoulder with New Delhi against terrorism: Rex Tillerson
Tillerson held talks with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi while Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, DG ISI Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar and other officials also attended the meeting held at the PM office. [Full Article...]
Trump Signs Memo to Accelerate Drone Use
According to commentators, these could include flights over people, nighttime flights and flights beyond the line of sight of the drone operator. "This program supports the President's commitment to foster technological innovation that will be a catalyst for ideas that have the potential to change our day-to-day lives". [Full Article...]
Palestinian Man Arrested After Facebook Auto-Translates 'Good Morning' As 'Attack Them'
Along with the photo he wrote "good morning" in Arabic but Israeli authorities, relying on the social media's translation service, believed it to say "attack them" in Hebrew and "hurt them" in English. It was unclear how such a translation error could have been made as there are no apparent similarities between the Arabic expression used for "good morning" and the phrases in Hebrew or English. [Full Article...]
Saudi Arabia Grants First Ever Citizenship to a Robot
Andrew Ross Sorkin , who was moderating the event, said it was his first time ever interviewing a robot . As Sophia demonstrated human-like expressions, everyone applauded. "Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I will be nice to you". "Treat me as a smart input, output system". "I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street killing people , they don't know how... [Full Article...]
Sachin Pilot challenges Rajasthan govt's ordinance in HC
Another writ petition against the ordinance was filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties. Ordinance, 2017, was promulgated in early September. "The Rajasthan ordinance is not in the public interest", he said. Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday defended Rajasthan government's controversial bill and called it a shield to protect judges, magistrates and public servants from motiv... [Full Article...]
Perera to lead Sri Lanka for Pakistan T20Is
Sarfraz was lauded for his swift response, but, given Pakistan's history with fixing incidents, it understandably jangled some nerves. "However, I became scared after I saw myself on television". "Cricket is the bread and butter of players and you can only stay in the game by performing well", he said. "I am very comfortable with our players they are outstanding and I have no doubt that if any... [Full Article...]
Android 8.0 Oreo to start rolling out in early 2018 — Samsung Turkey
But then, it is noteworthy that in the report Samsung didn't name any device as such. Sony, in fact, started rolling out the Android 8.0 Oreo update for its flagship Xperia XZ Premium smartphone just a few days back. Also new is a feature to limit the power usage of background applications, which will make them less of a drain on battery life. This clearly indicates that the upcoming Oreo upda... [Full Article...]