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Roaming pet cats on borrowed time, as councils consider curfews to protect native animals
They’re playful and gentle companions. Clean, independent and smart. For many people, cats are the perfect pet.
But they are also known to be killing machines.
Just ask wildlife veterinarian, Maren Beeston.
Almost every day she witnesses the devastating fallout from free-ranging cats.
One of her recent patients was a majestic boobook owl.
I am uncertain about the circumstances behind this video, one commenter suggests the girl is from North Africa so she may be Muslim herself.
La fille est maghrébine
— Alessia (@Alessialafarge) December 29, 2021
We have a mental health crisis in this country pic.twitter.com/Li7bPWVSBk
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 28, 2021
Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.
The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a “challenge to do”.
“Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” the smart speaker said.
Amazon said it fixed the error as soon as the company became aware of it.
Elon Musk is facing a social media backlash after China complained that its space station was forced to avoid collisions with satellites launched by his Starlink Internet Services project.
The country’s space station had two “close encounters” with Starlink satellites this year, Beijing claimed.
The incidents behind the complaints, lodged with the UN’s space agency, have not yet been independently verified.
A Texas doctor said his practice has seen a nearly 15% increase in vasectomies as men try to push back against the state’s abortion law, The Washington Post (WaP0) reported Sunday.
Koushik Shaw, a doctor who practices at the Austin Urology Institute, told WaPo his practice saw a roughly 15% increase in scheduled vasectomies following the state’s Sept. 1 abortion ban.
Since its birth during the Cold War, Canada’s spy agency has occupied itself with three primary threats: terrorism, espionage and foreign interference in domestic politics and business.
Now, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is pointing to a disruptive new player on the field: climate change.
CSIS says it’s trying to get a handle on how climate change will disrupt national security. It has even acknowledged that effort publicly — something intelligence agencies rarely do.
Another budget ask.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri woman has been charged with killing her boyfriend with a sword on Christmas Eve.
… Wilson told police that she and Foster had taken methamphetamine earlier in the day. She also told investigators that she believed Foster had several other entities living in his body, and she was setting him free by stabbing him.
As the year comes to a close, the news is getting grimmer, folks — at least according to the prophecies of long-dead, divining daddy Nostradamus. The French-plague doctor, astrologer and seer published his famed and widely quoted book “Les Prophéties” in 1555. Chock full of poetic predictions, the book foretells the coming of wars, natural disasters, assassinations, nuclear attacks and revolutions.
The search for deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s rumored $100 billion illicit fortune has hit the Big Apple.
An application filed by the Libyan government in Manhattan federal court seeks records from eight major banks related to Gaddafi’s finances “in what could become the largest international asset recovery effort of all time,” according to attorneys involved in the matter.
More than $100 billion was allegedly stolen by Gaddafi during his time as Libya’s ruler from 1969 to 2011, when he was overthrown by U.S.-supported rebels.
The machine was ‘trained’ using information compiled from more than 17,000 cases from 2015 to 2020 and can correctly file charges for Shanghai’s eight most common crimes, including credit card fraud, theft, and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” according to research published this month in the domestic peer-reviewed journal Management Review.
The AI prosecutor was developed and tested by the Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate, China’s biggest and busiest district prosecution office, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. The paper noted that the system could even run on a desktop computer.
Chilling moment masked man with crossbow threatens to kill Queen in vid sent to pals minutes before cops arrest man, 19
“This is revenge for those who have died in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
“It is also revenge for those who have been killed, humiliated and discriminated on because of their race.
“I’m an Indian Sikh, a Sith. My name was Jaswant Singh Chail, my name is Darth Jones.”
Suspect Jaswant Singh Chail was sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
🚨🚨🚨 | BREAKING: Chilling footage of the alleged Crosbow man who broke into Windsor threatening to kill the Queen
Via @TheSun pic.twitter.com/d655TIzqPo
— News For All (@NewsForAllUK) December 26, 2021
Idaho sheriff attempts to justify pulling a gun on church youth group who had dropped a Thanksgiving card at his home by saying he feared they were ‘drunk Indians’ from nearby reservation
This is who you entrust your kids with. She gets her validation from 10 year olds saying the right pronoun pic.twitter.com/EQsaQeD415
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 24, 2021
