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The jury, consisting of six men and six women, Convicted On Tuesday, one of the jurors, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told CBS News in an interview that they wanted to reconsider the evidence in Hunter Biden’s three felony firearms charges and “don’t want to rush to judgment.” Jurors also said politics were not influencing their decision. “There was no talk of the president at all during deliberations,” said Juror No. 10, who declined to be named. “…Politics was not a factor in this case.” The Delaware-based jury deliberated for about three hours after receiving the case Monday afternoon.…
Terminator: Genisys Courtesy of MPC/Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection Visual effects company Rearden has settled one of the few remaining lawsuits, this time with Paramount, over the unauthorized use of motion-capture technology by a major Hollywood studio. The parties on Monday filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit, which accused Paramount of infringing Rearden’s VFX software, MOVA Contour, on the 2015 film. Terminator: GenisysAccording to court filings, Rearden’s decision marks the end of a legal offensive against the studios that he began in 2017 with a massive complaint asking the court to block the release of several films by Disney, Fox and Paramount…
Whooping cough cases have soared by almost 500 percent in some parts of Australia.National regulators warned a year ago that there was a shortage of drugs to treat the disease.The shortage is likely to continue until at least the end of June, but alternative antibiotics are available.One activist, whose baby died of whooping cough in 2015, blames falling vaccination rates for the disaster.The Federal Health Office has reported an increase in the number of whooping cough cases, with 7,031 cases recorded in the first five months of this year.Approximately 45% of these cases are in Queensland and approximately 40% are…
Whooping cough cases have soared by almost 500 percent in some parts of Australia.National regulators warned a year ago that there was a shortage of drugs to treat the disease.The shortage is likely to continue until at least the end of June, but alternative antibiotics are available.One activist, whose baby died of whooping cough in 2015, blames falling vaccination rates for the disaster.The Federal Health Office has reported an increase in the number of whooping cough cases, with 7,031 cases recorded in the first five months of this year.Approximately 45% of these cases are in Queensland and approximately 40% are…
I don’t agree with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on politics, legal issues, or ethics. He should recuse himself from cases surrounding former President Donald Trump’s campaign. But he’s right about the divisions in our country today. I wish more liberals and moderates in positions of power would see things the way he does.”Someone is going to win,” he told Lauren Windsor, a liberal filmmaker who was posing as a conservative activist and secretly recording the conversation.He added, “I don’t know. I mean, maybe there’s a way to live peacefully together — to work together — but it’s hard. We…
Mohan Charan Majhi will be the new Chief Minister of Odisha, as decided at a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary meeting on Tuesday. He will be the first leader of the saffron party in the state and will take oath at a ceremony also attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 12.The 52-year-old Majhi will be joined by two deputies — first-time assembly member Prabhati Parida and six-term assemblyman KV Singh Deo, who was elected to the assembly from Keonjhar constituency reserved for STs and is a strong tribal face.In his first comments to reporters, the Prime Minister said…
List of winners of the 2024 House of Representatives Elections: As per the results and trends, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA is expected to win 296 seats, while the INDA alliance is expected to win 229 seats. Among the top leaders who emerged as winners were Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and AIMIM leader Asaduddin. India’s IT hub of Bangalore also saw the BJP elect its first woman MP, with Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje defeating Indian National Congress candidate MV Rajiv Gowda to win the Bangalore North seat. READ ALSO | Live…
Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Tim Cook at Apple WWDC 2024. apple Apple’s WWDC event unveiled some AI features that are making some startups nervous.Apple has a history of making certain apps and services seem irrelevant by building competing features into iPhones and Macs.Apple Intelligence could take on startups like Grammarly, Midjourney and password-saving apps. When Apple launches something new, it can send a warning signal to other startups.That was certainly the case at Apple’s WWDC event this week, where CEO Tim Cook and other executives detailed a host of AI features coming to…
Dutch government officials say hackers working for the Chinese government used a critical vulnerability that Fortinet did not disclose for two weeks after fixing it to gain access to more than 20,000 VPN devices sold by the company. Tracked as CVE-2022-42475, the vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow that could allow hackers to execute malicious code remotely. It has a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10. Network security software maker Fortinet quietly patched the vulnerability on November 28, 2022, but did not mention the threat until December 12 of the same year, when it announced it had become aware…
Leon Neal/Pool/Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Bletchley, England on November 1, 2023. new york CNN — Elon Musk’s lawyers on Tuesday began the process of dismissing the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, bringing to an end a months-long legal battle between the artificial intelligence startup’s co-founders. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, filed suit against the ChatGPT developer in February, alleging that the company had abandoned its non-profit mission by reserving some of its cutting-edge AI technology for private customers. The suit sought a jury trial and…