Google Lens, the search engine’s strong image recognition software, is getting easier to use within the Chrome browser on the desktop. Currently, if you use Lens on a webpage image, the browser opens a page of results in a separate tab. In the future, though, the browser will display results in a sidebar to the … Read more
TikTok has announced a program that lets viewers pay to subscribe to specific live streamers they want to support. Dubbed Live Subscription, it gives fans access to perks like a subscriber-only chat, creator-specific emotes, and badges that differentiate them from non-subscribers (via TechCrunch). It’s launching in beta on May 26th, according to an announcement video … Read more
In India, Uber has begun revealing trip destinations to drivers, allowing them to select whether or not to take the ride. The new policy is intended to alleviate passenger fears about driver cancellation after learning the destination of their journey. Earnings for long-distance pick-ups have also been added by the cab aggregator, allowing drivers to … Read more
The Butyrka, Russia’s oldest jail, has emerged as a center for illegal crypto mining activity. A high-ranking jail warden has also been accused of diverting energy from other areas of the facility in order to assist crypto mining within the facility. Butyrka, which was built in downtown Moscow in 1771, is nearly 250 years old … Read more
Former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb stated during a panel discussion at the Globe Economic Forum on Monday that the Ukraine conflict will have a long-term impact on the economy of Europe and the rest of the world. Stubb predicted that the Russian invasion of Ukraine would have a negative impact on the world economy, … Read more
Yemen’s army has said that the Iran-backed Houthis have violated a UN-brokered truce more than 4,276 times since day one by mobilizing fighters and launching drone and missile attacks on government troops, even as the militia indicated its acceptance of its renewal. The truce, which is the longest since the war began, came into effect … Read more
A senior Israeli lawmaker said on Monday the country risked “religious war” after a court ruled in favor of Jews who had tried to pray at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and as nationalists planned a march near the flashpoint site. Palestinian factions have denounced Israeli moves in Jerusalem’s Old City, the heart of their decades-old … Read more
Long queues snaked around gas stations in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital and its outskirts on Monday even though the island nation’s government was scrambling to deliver fuel supplies and douse any unrest as it battles a devastating economic crisis. Kanchana Wijesekera, Sri Lanka’s minister for power and energy, said supplies of 95-octane gasoline, mostly used … Read more
Greece said on Monday it had prevented around 600 migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea into its territorial waters from neighboring Turkey, in the largest attempted entry this year. A spokesman for the Greek coast guard said five sailboats and four dinghies had set off from the Turkish coast early in the morning. “Greek patrol … Read more
Lebanese authorities on Monday began removing concrete barriers around the country’s parliament building after the election of former protesters as MPs. The security measures had been put in place at the outbreak of massive anti-government protests in 2019. They are to be relaxed following the election of a dozen reformist newcomers to the 128-member legislature, … Read more
A British-Iranian charity worker who was imprisoned in Tehran for over six years says she was forced to sign a falsified confession to spying before being released two months ago. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said that British government personnel was present at Tehran airport when she signed the fraudulent admission to espionage “under duress.” She claimed that … Read more
A sandstorm blanketed parts of the Middle East on Monday, including Iraq, Syria, and Iran, sending people to hospitals and disrupting flights in some places. It was the latest in a series of unprecedented nearly back-to-back sandstorms this year that have bewildered residents and raised alarm among experts and officials, who blame climate change and … Read more
Tunisia’s labor union said on Monday it would hold a national strike over wages and the economy after refusing to take part in a limited dialogue proposed by the president as he rewrites the constitution. With more than a million members, the UGTT is Tunisia’s most powerful political force and its call for a strike … Read more
The emir of Qatar stated on Monday that he is willing to help any international or regional effort to find an expedient peaceful end to the Ukrainian crisis. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, claimed that conflict resolution via aggression is on the rise and that he … Read more
A person has been killed at the Qatar Embassy in Paris and one person has been arrested as part of the investigation, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday, confirming earlier media reports. A source close to the investigation said the person killed in the early hours of Monday was a security guard and that … Read more
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly discussed with Osmar Chohfi, president of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, and its Secretary-General Tamer Mansour, economic ties between the two countries. Nader Saad, the spokesman for Egypt’s Cabinet, said the meeting also reviewed growing ties between Brazil and Arab countries. Madbouly stressed Cairo’s support for all efforts to bolster … Read more
In a powerful speech during the opening session of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the lesson to be learned from the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that the global community must act preventively, rather than reactively, if it is to deter future acts of international aggression. … Read more
Labour Party leader Anthony Albanese was sworn in as the 31st prime minister of Australia on Monday, promising a “journey of change” as he vowed to tackle climate change, rising living costs, and inequality. Labor returns to power after nine years in opposition as a wave of unprecedented support for the Greens and climate-focused independents, … Read more
