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Russian apartment building attacked by alleged drones from Ukrainian forces: state media

FOX News

Fox News contributor Mike Pompeo weighs in on Hungary's parliament approving Sweden's bid to join NATO and a resurfaced clip of Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning about NATO expansion on'The Story.' A drone crashed into an apartment building in St. Petersburg Saturday morning, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. The local state news agency said that Ukrainian forces had damaged the apartment building. Two buildings were damaged in St. Petersburg's Krasnogvardeisky district following the alleged attack. Photos from the dilapidated-looking apartment complex showed large craters on the building's exterior.


Seven killed in Russian drone attack on Odesa apartment block

Al Jazeera

A Russian drone attack on an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa has killed at least seven people, including a three-year-old and a woman with an infant child, regional authorities said. "Rescuers in Odesa have just uncovered the bodies of a mother with a three-month-old baby," Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in a post on the Telegram app on Saturday. At the scene, smoke poured from rubble strewn across the ground where the drone had ripped a chunk several storeys high out of the building. Clothes and furniture were scattered in the ruined mass of concrete and steel hanging off the side of the apartment block. Ukraine's State Emergencies Service posted photos, including of a dead toddler being placed in a body bag by rescuers.


Are the robots about to rise? Google's new director of engineering thinks so…

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It's hard to know where to start with Ray Kurzweil. With the fact that he takes 150 pills a day and is intravenously injected on a weekly basis with a dizzying list of vitamins, dietary supplements, and substances that sound about as scientifically effective as face cream: coenzyme Q10, phosphatidycholine, glutathione? With the fact that he believes that he has a good chance of living for ever? He just has to stay alive "long enough" to be around for when the great life-extending technologies kick in (he's 66 and he believes that "some of the baby-boomers will make it through"). Or with the fact that he's predicted that in 15 years' time, computers are going to trump people. That they will be smarter than we are. Not just better at doing sums than us and knowing what the best route is to Basildon. But that they will be able to understand what we say, learn from experience, crack jokes, tell stories, flirt. Ray Kurzweil believes that, by 2029, computers will be able to do all the things that humans do.