North Korea has rebuffed US entreaties for diplomacy since Biden took over from Trump, who had three summits with Kim and famously exchanged “beautiful letters” with the third-generation leader. Reuters | , Washington PUBLISHED ON MAY 23, 2021 07:52 PM IST U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday the United States is waiting to see if North Korea wants to engage in diplomacy over the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday injected fresh urgency into attempts to engage North Korea in dialogue over its nuclear weapons, with Biden…
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Police said it was a party with a couple hundred people. Aerial footage shows debris throughout the home’s yard. AP | PUBLISHED ON MAY 23, 2021 07:36 PM IST State police in New Jersey are investigating reports of an overnight fatal shooting with multiple victims at a South Jersey house party.Officials said police responded to a house in Fairfield Township, about an hour outside of Philadelphia, late Saturday night.6ABC reports that police said it was party with a couple hundred people.Aerial footage shows debris throughout the home’s yard.John Fuqua, who runs a local anti-violence organization called Life Worth Living, said…
Nine people died and two children were seriously injured on Sunday when a cable car linking Italy’s Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain in the Alps plunged to the ground.The Stresa-Mottarone cable car carries tourists and local people from the town of Stresa on Lake Maggiore, almost 1,400 metres above sea level, to the top of the Mottarone mountain.”This is the final toll of the accident as the car was carrying 11 passengers when the disaster happened,” Simone Bobbio, a spokesman for Italy’s alpine rescue service for the Piedmont region, told Reuters.The cable car cabin plunged close to the second…
India’s government has sent notices to social media platforms ordering them to take down content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the COVID-19 virus, Reuters reported. The letter from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology sent Friday was not made public, but was viewed by several news outlets. It was not clear which social media outlets received the letter, but India’s government has recently ordered Twitter to remove tweets and Facebook and Instagram to take down posts that were critical of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “There is no such variant of COVID-19 scientifically cited as such…
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently revoked a memo, issued during the Donald Trump administration, to ensure smoother H-1B visa extension. The Trump-era memo required immigration officers to treat each visa extension request as a new application. This caused an increase in additional documentation which subsequently increased administrative burden and costs for sponsoring employers.The latest policy guidance instructs officers to defer to previous approvals while extending work visas such as H-1B. However, the officers may not defer to a prior approval when there is a material error, material change, or new material facts that adversely impacts the…
NVIDIA graphics cards over the years have gone through the proverbial driver chopping block many times. And if you’re still running some particularly old oneness, they’re going to be next. (Photo : Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)SANTA CLARA, CA – MAY 10: A sign is posted in front of the Nvidia headquarters on May 10, 2018 in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia Corporation will report first quarter earnings today after the closing bell. The ones we’re talking about here are the aging NVIDIA GeForce 600 and 700 series of graphics cards, which are slated to lose official driver support with the upcoming driver…
Homepod will support Apple Music’s newest feature, the lossless audio, in the next update of the speaker, Apple said in a support document. However, the new announcement by the Cupertino company is different from its first statement. At first, it said that all HomePod and AirPods variations do not support the lossless audio of Apple Music. Well, it is great news that Apple changed its mind. And now, it is clear that both HomePod and HomePod Mini will be able to play the high-quality audio from Apple Music. It will be exciting to hear the said speaker play music in uncompromised…
Aerion Supersonic, one of the biggest jet developers across the globe, confirmed that it will soon shut down due to financial issues. The giant plane creator said that its funding has finally dried up, preventing it to continue its operations to produce silent and super fast commercial jets. (Photo : Screenshot from Twitter post of @FelizVuelo)Aerion Supersonic Suddenly Shuts Down: Overture Airline to Replace AS2 Silent Commercial Plane? Hace apenas unos meses, Aerion Supersonic compartió detalles sobre sus ambiciosos planes para un avión comercial Mach 4+ de 50 asientos. Sin embargo, en un giro de los acontecimientos, la compañía con…
The Samsung Galaxy Z Slide could be the next smartphone to be added to the fancy Z line of the company. The South Korean company filed for the trademark of “Z Slide” in Europe on May 21. (Photo : by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – OCTOBER 25: The Samsung logo is displayed at the Samsung office on October 25, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee,, who had transformed Samsung Group into one of the world’s major tech giants from a small trading firm, died at a hospital in Seoul on Sunday at age 78, leaving…
NVIDIA graphics cards at MSRP are more or less like unicorns these days, considering how impossible they are to get at reasonable prices. But if you’re absolutely desperate to have the latest GPUs from Team Green, then maybe these Razer prebuilt PCs are your best options. (Photo : Chesnot/Getty Images)PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 25: The logo of the US computer company Razer is displayed during the ‘Paris Games Week’ on October 25, 2018 in Paris, France. ‘Paris Games Week’ is an international trade fair for video games and runs from October 26 to 31, 2018. Pro during the ‘Paris Games…