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California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

A frame of video showing two Huntington Park Police officers pointing their guns at 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr., a double amputee, moments before he was shot and killed by police. (via Twitter/Mike Sington) A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them. The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both… Source link

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California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

A frame of video showing two Huntington Park Police officers pointing their guns at 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr., a double amputee, moments before he was shot and killed by police. (via Twitter/Mike Sington) A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them. The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both… Source link

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AI weapons ‘frightening,’ ‘will’ make lethal decisions

AI weapons ‘frightening,’ ‘will’ make lethal decisions

The chief software officer at the Pentagon, Nicolas Chaillan, suddenly quit last month over concerns that the U.S. military had fallen “15 to 20 years” behind China in cyber warfare and artificial intelligence, he told the Financial Times.  The warning marks the latest sign of discord within the U.S. military over how to prepare for what former Google executive Kai-Fu Lee calls the “third revolution” in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.  In a new interview, ex-General Stanley… Source link

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iPhone 12 feature can be lethal for patients with cardiac devices

iPhone 12 feature can be lethal for patients with cardiac devices

Doctors are warning about a potential life-threatening issue related to Apple’s iPhone 12. A powerful new magnet in the smartphone device can interfere with pacemakers and implanted cardiac defibrillators among patients with serious heart issues, according to research by specialists in cardiac electrophysiology. Dr Gurjit Singh of Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute in the US is an expert in cardiac devices which contain switches that respond to an external magnet to change how the device… Source link

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