The man accused of killing a Nanaimo grandmother in what RCMP have described as a “stranger homicide” was previously convicted of assaulting a teen in an alleged abduction attempt, and was set to be tried on separate charges Wednesday. Cameron Alexander Compton, 32, is accused of eight allegations against an intimate partner between April 1,…
Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led hundreds of Israeli Jews into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Thursday, breaching the site’s decades-old status quo as he marked a Jewish day of mourning. The visit coincided with Tisha B’Av, the Jewish fasting day commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples, which is…
Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API access to a growing roster of third-party image, video and audio models alongside…
Whales keep increasing their exposure to the cryptocurrency. Cardano’s native token is among the best-performing cryptocurrencies (from the top 100 club) over the past week, with its price rising by 8% to around $0.17. Two key developments suggest the uptrend might be just at its starting point, while another factor hints that an upcoming correction…
The wreckage of a Pan Am flight that plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico more than 70 years ago in an accident that shaped commercial aviation safety procedures has been found. Last month, explorers discovered the wreckage of Flight 526A that crashed off San Juan, Puerto Rico, in April 1952,…
Mobile unit provides a set of religious, guidance and awareness services. Sheikh Dr. Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz Al-Sudais, president of Religious Affairs at the Grand Masjid and the Prophet’s Masjid, inaugurated a new mobile religious services center at the Masjid an-Nabawi. The new center was launched to provide religious services directly to worshipers and visitors throughout…
Google is adding a selfie video option as a new way for users to log in to their accounts, the company announced on Thursday, joining a growing wave of tech companies betting that biometrics and not password are the future of identity verification online. The tech giant says selfie videos give users more options to…
A wave of high profile crypto hacks in April that many suspected had been orchestrated using sophisticated AI tools to identify smart contract exploits, led to fears that every DeFi protocol was suddenly at risk. In May, Manuel Aráoz, founder of the blockchain security platform OpenZeppelin, declared “all of DeFi unsafe” following $630 million in…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man has died after a propane tank exploded at a cottage at a golf club located just outside of Peterborough, Ontario Provincial Police said. OPP said it responded to the scene on Villiers Line around 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Local fire and EMS also responded. A…
During its war with the United States, Iran has targeted Middle East bases where American troops are stationed, turning assets once seen as a bulwark against Tehran into targets. Below, AFP examines some of the major concentrations of US forces in the region, which fall under the US military’s Central Command (Centcom). Elizabeth Dent, a…
