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A reformist candidate critical of many Iranian government policies, including the mandatory veil law, will compete next week against a hardline conservative in a runoff for the country's presidency, Iran's Interior Ministry announced Saturday. The runoff follows a special vote called after the death last month of the previous leader, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash. A second round of voting, pitting reformist Masoud Pezeshkian against Saeed Jalili, an ultra-conservative former nuclear negotiator, will take place on July 5. The runoff was partly the result of low voter turnout and a field of three major candidates, two of whom competed for the Conservative vote. Iranian law requires that a winner receive more than 50 percent of all votes cast.A majority of Iranians, 60 perce...

A patient walks into a hospital room, sits down, and starts talking to a doctor. Only in this case, the doctor is a hologram.It may sound like science fiction, but it’s reality for some patients at Crescent Regional Hospital in Lancaster, Texas.In May, the hospital group began offering patients the ability to see their doctor remotely as a hologram through a partnership with Holoconnects, a digital technology company based in the Netherlands.Each Holobox — the company's name for its 440-pound, 7-foot-tall device that displays a highly realistic 3D live video of a person on a screen — costs $42,000, with an additional $1,900 annual service fee.The high-quality image gives the patient the sensation that a doctor is sitting inside the box, when in reality the doctor is miles away looking ...

As negotiations to end the long-running legal tussle between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the United States reached a critical point this spring, prosecutors presented his lawyers with a choice so crazy that one person involved thought it it sounded like a Monty Python joke. movie.“Guam or Saipan?”It was no joke. He had been told that his path to freedom would pass through one of the two American islands in the blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean.Mr. Assange, who feared lifelong imprisonment in the United States, had long insisted on a condition of any plea deal: never to set foot in the country. The U.S. government, in turn, had required Mr. Assange to plead guilty to a felony for violating the Espionage Act, which required him to appear before a federal judge.In April, a lawyer fo...

Eskişehir, tarihi zenginliği ve kültürel çeşitliliğiyle Türkiye'nin önemli şehirlerinden biridir. Her gün yaşanan olaylar ve gelişmeler, Eskişehir Haber sitesi üzerinden okuyucularla buluşuyor. Bu yazıda, şehrin güncel haberlerini ve Eskişehir Haber sitesinin önemini detaylı bir şekilde ele alacağız. Eskişehir'in Tarihi Mirası: Kültürel Zenginlikler Eskişehir, Anadolu'nun önemli medeniyetlerine ev sahipliği yapmış bir şehirdir. Phrygler'den Osmanlı'ya kadar uzanan tarihi mirası, müzeler ve tarihi yapılarla günümüze taşınmıştır. Eskişehir Haber sitesi, bu zenginlikleri okuyucularına aktararak şehrin kültürel dokusunu canlı tutmayı hedefler. Eskişehir'de Eğitim ve Öğrenci Hayatı: Üniversite Şehri Olma Özelliği Anadolu Üniversitesi'nin bulunduğu Eskişehir, genç nüfusu ve eğitim ol...

In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. The match was wrong, and Mr. Williams sued.On Friday, as part of a legal settlement over his wrongful arrest, Mr. Williams won a commitment from the Detroit Police Department to do better. The city adopted new rules for police use of facial recognition technology that the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Mr. Williams, said should become the new national standard.“Hopefully it moves the needle in the right direction,” Williams said.Mr. Williams was the first known person to be wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition errors. But he wasn’t the last. Detroit police have arrested at least two other people following botched facial recogni...

A heart surgeon, a former mayor of Tehran and a cleric implicated in the execution of political prisoners are among six candidates approved by authorities to run in Iran's elections on Friday to replace the president who died in a helicopter crash last month.The candidates have renounced the hijab requirement in Iran. They have addressed U.S. sanctions that have contributed to the country's economic crisis and have openly criticized the government during a series of debates, an unusual move in Iranian politics. However, voter apathy in the country is high and divisions among conservative leaders make the outcome difficult to predict.Although Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has final authority over major state matters, the president sets domestic policy and can influence fo...

The Biden administration said this week that it opposes gender-affirming surgery on minors, the most outspoken statement yet on the issue from a president who has been a vocal supporter of transgender rights.The White House announcement was sent to the New York Times on Wednesday in response to a report that staff in the office of Adm. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, had solicited an influential international organization to Transgender health remove minimum age for surgery from treatment guidelines for minors.The interim guidelines would have lowered the minimum age limits to 14 for hormone treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgery, and 17 for genital surgery or hysterectomies. The final guidelines, rel...

Rishi Sunak’s gamble was a big one. Five weeks ago, the British prime minister gambled on his belief that a summer election would give his Conservative Party a better chance of holding on to power than waiting until the autumn.Calling a snap election was Sunak’s last throw of the dice. But it has since emerged that in the days before he announced to the country in the pouring rain on May 22 that he was going to the polls, a number of colleagues and underlings were placing bets of a more literal kind.Looking at data from the week before Mr Sunak’s announcement, bookmakers noticed a spike in bets placed on the election date. The amounts wagered were small, totalling just a few thousand pounds, but the sudden flurry of activity was enough to warrant further investigation.The question of wheth...

What does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has been imagining this for decades. Now AI developers are copying from movies, creating voices for real machines based on dated movie fantasies about how machines should talk.Last month, OpenAI revealed updates to its artificially intelligent chatbot. ChatGPT, the company said, is learning to hear, see and converse in a naturalistic voice, much like the disembodied operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson in Spike Jonze’s 2013 film “Her.”ChatGPT's voice, called Sky, also had a husky tone, a calming effect and a sexy touch. She was nice and shy; it seemed like she was ready for anything. After Sky's debut, Johansson expressed disappointment at the "eerily similar" sound and said she had previously rejected OpenAI'...

The United States is in the midst of an intense diplomatic push to prevent an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, as risks grow that either side could launch a broader regional battle.In recent days, U.S. officials have pressured their Israeli counterparts and conveyed messages to Hezbollah leaders aimed at averting a broader regional conflict that they fear could involve both Iran and the United States.Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met with several Biden administration officials in Washington this week, largely to discuss rising tensions along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. That visit was followed last week by one by Israel’s national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, and his strategic affairs minister, Ron Dermer.Also last week, a senior White Hous...