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An Elon University professor has devised a “secret weapon” to fight “far-right extremists” on behalf of Antifa — she’s made software to keep tabs on 400,000 Facebook accounts whom she suspects to be members of the alt-right. And she’s using that program to dox anyone she deems a “far-right extremist.” A new Wired Magazine article, published on Tuesday, highlights the work of Megan Squire, a 45-year-old professor of computer science at Elon University, whose program feeds data to the hyper-partisan organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — as well as a “left-wing activist who she knew might take more radical action.” The magazine reports that the SPLC’s analysts then use the information she gives them to “provide information to police or to reveal white supremacists to their employers, seeking to get them fired.” The SPLC’s penchant for recklessly referring to organizations as “hate groups” previously resulted in a domestic terror attack on the Family Research Council …

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Panicked motorists have caused lengthy queues at petrol stations and caused some pumps to run dry - the latest consequence of a shortage of HGV drivers which is causing widespread disruption in the UK. The government insists the country has "ample fuel stocks" but it has not stopped long lines of cars forming after some forecourts were affected by problems getting petrol deliveries. It comes after the UK's biggest supermarket chains and restaurants including McDonald's, KFC and Nando's, were impacted by the truck driver shortages. Fuel supply latest: Follow live updates as police urge motorists to 'be sensible' Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Queues for fuel amid tanker driver shortage Retailers have now warned a solution must be found within days to avoid "significant disruption" in the run-up to Christmas. Advertisement So why is there a HGV driver shortage, how big is the problem and what can …

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The killing of Rayshard Brooks by police in America happened less than three weeks after that of George Floyd. With jaw-dropping horror, these deaths point to the intractable history of police brutality towards the black community, despite an equally long history of reform. The killings have given new impetus to the long-simmering frustration of how do you solve a problem like the police? Calls to defund the police and use the resources that are freed up on community welfare, health and education are rational and laudable, as those kinds of investments should reduce the need for police intervention further down the line. But defunding is usually seen as the tactical first step on the road to abolition by creating the kind of society in which policing would not be needed. While the US context, with its prison-industrial complex and where the police began life as slave patrols , is significantly different from the UK, there are enough parallels in terms of …

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Before coronavirus, to demonstrate its enormity and destruction, cancer was known as the “big C”. Now, Macmillan Cancer Support is referring to it as the “forgotten C”. Oncologist Karol Sikora talks of 2,300 cancer cases being missed each week and that the cancer diagnostic system has all but seized up. For five months I have been trapped in this system, currently going nowhere, waiting for surgery to determine if I have cancer. I feel abandoned. In February I was told that I have at least a 25 per cent chance of having cancer due to a suspicious thyroid nodule. This was discovered quite by chance, revealed by an MRI scan I had because of a painful neck and tingling in my hands. Back then I was swiftly and competently seen by the NHS. I felt secure that the NHS would be there for me no matter what. I was quickly given an ultrasound and then a fine needle aspiration. This confirmed the nodule showed malignancy markers and needed to be removed in an operation that will …

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It has been oft-quoted – albeit humouredly – that the ideal of medicine is the elimination of the physician. The emergence and encroachment of artificial intelligence (AI) on the field of medicine, however, puts an inconvenient truth on the aforementioned witticism. Over the span of their professional lives, a pathologist may review 100,000 specimens, a radiologist more so; AI can perform this undertaking in days rather than decades. Visualise your last trip to an NHS hospital, the experience was either one of romanticism or repudiation: the hustle and bustle in the corridors, or the agonising waiting time in A&E; the empathic human touch, or the dissatisfaction of a rushed consultation; a seamless referral or delays and cancellations. Contrary to this, our experience of hospitals in the future will be slick and uniform; the human touch all but erased and cleansed, in favour of complete and utter digitalisation. Envisage an almost automated hospital: cleaning …

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The world was not prepared for the fight against Covid-19 but it has been heartening to see many different fields, including healthcare and hospitality, come together to confront this deadly virus . The tech industry has played a vital role, delivering apps to track infected patients, thereby giving everyone else the best possible chance of staying safe. A different story is emerging in India, however. Almost six months ago, the government launched a promising Covid-19 tracker app called Aarogya Setu . It was publicised as the beacon of hope that would help the country in its battle with coronavirus. Unfortunately, it has not quite worked out like that. An Indian Right to Information (RTI) activist, Saurav Das, has since filed an appeal with the Central Information Commission (CIC), stating that the official bodies, which should be answerable for the formation of the app, haven’t made public who created it, prompting an even bigger question: where is all the …

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Mexican officials are urging Haitians on the Texas border trying to reach the United States to give up and return to Mexico's frontier with Guatemala to request asylum, even as discontent grows over the treatment meted out to the beleaguered migrants. Up to 14,000 mostly Haitians were camped just north of the Rio Grande river this month as they attempted to enter the United States, but hundreds retreated to Mexico after U.S. officials began sending planes of people back to Haiti. On September 23, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti quit in protest over the Biden administration's deportations of migrants to the Caribbean nation, which has been rocked bythe assassination of its President, gang violence and natural disasters. That followed widespread outrage stirred up by images of a U.S. border guard on horseback unfurling a whip-like cord against Haitian migrants near their camp. Yet pressure is also growing on U.S. President Joe Biden to tighten the border, and Mexico's National …

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Soul icon, rebel icon, style icon... Amy Winehouse inspired a whole generation, not only in the field of music, but also in terms of fashion. Ten years after her sudden death, the book Amy Winehouse – Beyond Black pays a vibrant tribute to the artiste through the testimonies and recollections of many of her friends and relations, as well as unpublished archive images, and even reconstructed room sets featuring some of her favourite objects. Read more: Taylor Swift to Michelle Obama, celebrities who caused fashion items to sell out All this is overseen by Amy Winehouse's stylist and friend, Naomi Parry. We caught up with the person most familiar with the British singer's wardrobe to decode her unique style, from her influences to her favourite pieces. – AFP Relaxnews Can you tell us about your unusual meeting with Amy Winehouse? It was the summer of 2005 and my school friend, Jon, had taken me for lunch in Soho. We were 19 at the time, and between our Art & …

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(Reuters) -McLaren's Lando Norris seized his first Formula One pole position at the Russian Grand Prix on Saturday after seven- times world champion Lewis Hamilton hit the wall in a damp and dramatic qualifying session. Ferrari's Spaniard Carlos Sainz joined the young Briton on the front row in Sochi with Williams' George Russell, Hamilton's Mercedes team mate from next season, completing a sensational top three against all odds. Hamilton, who had been on provisional pole before everyone switched to slicks on a drying track, qualified fourth -- making it three Britons in the top four -- after a brush with the pit lane wall. The team hurriedly swapped the front wing and got him back out on slicks in time for one more flying lap to the chequered flag but the tyres had lost temperature and Hamilton spun, with his fastest time remaining that set on the intermediates. Hamilton can still expect to retake the overall lead from Red Bull rival Max Verstappen on Sunday with the …

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Georgetown professor Trita Parsi told Hill.TV that the recent drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan has compelled some countries in the region to prioritize diplomacy. “The almost unquestionable idea in Washington is that we are there because we create calm and stability, and if we leave chaos invariably will ensue. And we’re now seeing quite a lot of evidence to the contrary,” Parsi, executive vice president at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft,  said on Hill.TV’s “Rising.” Two days before U.S. troops left Afghanistan in late August, Iraq hosted a regional security summit with Saudi and Iranian officials in attendance as part of efforts to ease regional tensions. President Biden Joe Biden Fighter jet escorts aircraft that entered restricted airspace during UN gathering Julian Castro knocks Biden administration over refugee policy FBI investigating alleged assault on Fort Bliss soldier at Afghan refugee camp MORE applauded the …

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