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Drone attack kills eight children in Haiti's capital

Al Jazeera

Drone attack kills eight children in Haiti's capital NewsFeed Drone attack kills eight children in Haiti's capital At least 11 people, including eight children, were reported killed in a drone attack in a gang-controlled area of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. Relatives of the victims said police were targeting a suspected gang leader. Video: Parents carry children's bodies after Israeli attack on Gaza City Protesters outside UN say recognising Palestine isn't enough


Deadly Haiti drone attack kills eight children in capital Port-au-Prince

Al Jazeera

A deadly drone attack in an impoverished area of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, which killed at least 11 people, including eight children, is being blamed on the government, as the country's use of the UAVs in its war on gangs comes under increasing scrutiny. The incident happened on Saturday night in Cite Soleil, one of Port-au-Prince's most dangerous neighbourhoods, in the city's west along the coast, as Albert Steevenson, known as Djouma or "King Jouma", who is a suspected gang leader, was celebrating his birthday. One of the group's leaders and most notorious figures, Jimmy Cherizier, known as Barbecue, promised to avenge the attack. Claudia Bobrun, 30, whose daughter was killed in the attack, showed The Associated Press news agency a video of the eight-year-old in a pool of blood, as she burst into tears. Merika, another four-year-old victim of the attack, was playing with other children at 8pm in the Simon Pele neighbourhood, in Cite Soleil, where the suspected kamikaze drone exploded.


Black in Robotics 'Meet The Members' series: Andrew Dupree

Robohub

Inside of the development studios of San Francisco-based Dexterity, Inc. there is a robot arm that stands as tall as a human. It is placed between a conveyor belt and several wooden pallets, all of which are typical of most warehouse packing facilities. But this is no typical warehouse facility. This is the location where most warehouse packing facilities would have teams of people manually picking up boxes from the conveyor belt and carefully placing them onto the pallets for wrapping and shipping, but there are no such people here. Instead, as the packages come down the belt, this robot recognizes them, picks them up, and then deposits them onto the target pallet with a gentle touch.


Newt Gingrich: Biden's border disaster โ€“ here's why it will just keep getting worse

FOX News

A surge of Haitians is being deported, or let free. As President Joe Biden vacationed at Rehoboth Beach, the disaster at the U.S. southern border continued to metastasize. Anyone who has seen pictures of thousands of people crossing the Rio Grande en masse knows the administration has achieved complete failure. Anyone who has seen the overhead drone footage of more than 12,000 people gathered under one bridge in South Texas knows that massive, historic incompetence is being allowed to flourish. At the same time, it's clear that โ€“ despite all the Big Government Socialists in Biden's party who complain about America โ€“ we remain the one country people desperately try to get into.


Cyberpunk 2077 Is a Mess On Every Level

TIME - Tech

Cyberpunk 2077 and the constellation of controversy orbiting it--at nearly every level of its making--is almost laughable. The open-world shooter game, developed by Polish studio CD Projekt Red, was billed as the next big thing in video games, an experience that would impress both visually and narratively. From a huge city full of opportunities to an arsenal of upgradable elements for your customizable character, how could one not be enticed by the previews ahead of the Dec. 10 release? Hell, it's even got Keanu Reeves in it, and a lot of him! In hindsight, Cyberpunk 2077's seven-year lead up didn't do it any favors. After all, you can only rely on hype for so long.


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MIT News

In recent years, MIT scholars have helped develop a whole lexicon of science and math terms for use in Haiti's Kreyรฒl language. Now a collaboration with Google is making those terms readily available to anyone -- an important step in the expansion of Haitian Kreyรฒl for education purposes. The new project, centered around the MIT-Haiti Initiative, has been launched as part of an enhancement to the Google Translate program. Now anyone using Google Translate can find an extensive set of Kreyรฒl terms, including recent coinages, in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. "In the past five or six years, we've witnessed quite a paradigm shift in the way people in Haiti talk about and use Kreyรฒl," says Michel DeGraff, a professor of linguistics at MIT and director of the MIT-Haiti Initiative.


That Hurricane Matthew forecast you keep seeing may not mean what you think

Mashable

As Hurricane Matthew churns from Haiti toward Cuba and the Bahamas, millions along the Southeast U.S. coast are preparing for the storm. As of midday Tuesday, the entire East Coast from Miami to Boston was within the National Hurricane Center's (NHC) "cone of uncertainty" storm track forecast. With supermarket shelves already going bare in Florida, many are basing crucial storm decisions, such as whether to stay near the shore or head inland, in large part on forecast graphics like the cone of uncertainty map. Forecasters at the NHC produce this map multiple times each day based on new information from computer models, weather observations and other sources. But published, peer-reviewed research, along with an informal poll of Mashable newsroom colleagues, indicates that it's unlikely do itmost people truly understand what the cone of uncertainty graphic actually shows.


When Disaster Strikes, He Creates A 'Crisis Map' That Helps Save Lives

NPR Technology

Patrick Meier (center, in cap) flies a drone in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015. Meier and his team were able to to capture detailed images of damage around the capital, Kathmandu. He believes using this technology will make crisis mapping even more effective for disaster response. Patrick Meier (center, in cap) flies a drone in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015. Meier and his team were able to to capture detailed images of damage around the capital, Kathmandu. He believes using this technology will make crisis mapping even more effective for disaster response.