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Uganda’s Constitutional Court has largely upheld an anti-gay law signed by President Yoweri Museveni last year, undermining efforts by activists and rights groups to overturn legislation that has drawn global condemnation and strained the east African nation’s relationship with the West. .The legislation, signed by Mr Museveni in May, calls for life imprisonment for anyone involved in same-sex sex. Anyone who tries to have same-sex relationships can face up to a decade in prison.Uganda faced international fallout for passing the law, with the World Bank suspending all new funding and the United States imposing sanctions and visa restrictions on top…
Shari Redstone is one step closer to selling her media empire.Paramount, home to one of Hollywood’s most historic movie studios as well as CBS and cable networks such as Nickelodeon, is discussing opening exclusive talks with media company Skydance about a potential deal, according to four people familiar with the discussions. Moving to exclusive talks would be a major step forward in a process that has been shrouded in uncertainty for months.Whether the two sides will agree to exclusivity remains to be seen, especially with other investors still pursuing Paramount. Apollo Global Management, an investment firm with more than $500…
The estate of the comedian George Carlin settled on Monday with the creators of a podcast that had said they had used artificial intelligence to impersonate Mr. Carlin for a comedy special.As part of the settlement, the two podcast creators, Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen, agreed to permanently remove the comedy special and never republish it on any platform, according to Josh Schiller, a lawyer for Mr. Carlin’s estate. They also agreed not to use Mr. Carlin’s image, voice or likeness on any platform without approval from the estate, according to court records.Mr. Schiller declined to elaborate on whether the…
At some level, the human liver in the operating room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago was alive. Blood circulating through its tissues supplied oxygen and removed waste products, and the organ produced bile and proteins necessary for the body.But the donor had died a day earlier and the liver was inside a plastic boxed device. The organ owed its vitality to this machine, which preserved it for transplantation into a needy patient.”It’s a bit of science fiction,” said Dr. Daniel Borja-Cacho, a transplant surgeon at the hospital.Surgeons are experimenting with organs from genetically modified animals, hinting at a future…
Aid workers killed in GazaIsraeli strikes on an aid convoy run by the charity group World Central Kitchen killed seven of its workers in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized and said Israel was “deeply sorry” for the strike. He called it “a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people.”Workers were traveling in clearly marked vehicles and World Central Kitchen said it had coordinated its movements with Israel’s military. Israel is investigating the circumstances surrounding the strikes.The war has been extremely dangerous for aid workers — at least 196 have been killed since the war began,…
Durante más de medio siglo, el manual sobre cómo los países de desarrollo pueden aumentar sus riquezas ha cambiado poco: transladar a los agriculturists de subsistence a empleos manufacturingos y luego sell lo que ellos producen al resto del mundo.La Receta —adaptada de diversas maneras in Hong Kong, Singapore, Corea del Sur, Taiwan y China—has the production of the engine of potential that is the global world for the general economic crisis. It has helped to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, generate jobs and increase living standards.The Asian Tigers and China succeeded in combining vast reserves…
Endeavor, the sports and entertainment company led by Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel, said Tuesday it plans to go private, nearly three years after going public.The transaction – led by Silver Lake, the investment firm that has been Endeavor’s longtime financial backer – is intended to usher in a new era for Endeavor, whose ambitious growth story has failed to gain traction on Wall Street.Under the terms of the deal, Silver Lake will buy the Endeavor stock it does not already own for $27.50 per share in cash. That price is 55 percent higher than where Endeavor’s shares were trading on…
For nearly 30 years, Oren Etzioni has been one of the most optimistic researchers in artificial intelligence.However, in 2019 Dr. Etzioni, a University of Washington professor and founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, became one of the first researchers to warn that a new breed of AI would accelerate the spread of misinformation online. And in the middle of last year, he said, he was dismayed that AI-generated deepfakes would lead to an important election. He founded a nonprofit organization, TrueMedia.org in January, hoping to combat this threat.On Tuesday, the agency released free tools to spot digital disinformation,…
Tesla appeared to be losing control of the market it essentially created after it reported a surprising drop in quarterly sales on Tuesday, raising fresh questions about Elon Musk’s leadership of the company.The sales slump unnerved investors as rivals such as China’s BYD and South Korea’s Kia and Hyundai reported increases in electric vehicle sales, suggesting that slower overall demand for battery-powered models was not the only explanation for Tesla’s woes .Tesla pioneered the electric vehicle market with the Model 3 sedan and Model Y sport utility vehicle, which proved that battery-powered cars could be attractive, practical and profitable. The…
The highly lethal form of bird flu circulating around the world since 2021 has killed tens of millions of birds, forced poultry farmers in the United States to cull entire flocks and caused a brief but alarming spike in the price of eggs.More recently, it has infected dairy cows in several states and at least one person in Texas who had close contact with the animals, officials said this week.The outbreak, as it turns out, is proving especially costly for American taxpayers.Last year, the Department of Agriculture paid poultry producers more than half a billion dollars for the turkeys, chickens…