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Staff at approximately 220 Starbucks locations in the United States have voted to unionize, making unexpectedly successful inroads at the popular coffee chain. However, the movement is in jeopardy as the economy slows and the company responds furiously. Joselyn Chuquillanqui had been with Starbucks for nearly seven years when she was let go last month. She had been anticipating the decision. Though she enjoyed her job as a barista because it allowed her to care for her young niece, the 28-year-old had tried to rally her coworkers in New York to join a labor union this winter, frustrated by the…

However, fighter pilots in the 2030s will have an even closer relationship with their fighter jet. It has the ability to read their minds. The Tempest jet is being developed by BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, the European missile group, MBDA, and Leonardo of Italy. An artificial intelligence (AI) tool will be one feature that will assist the human pilot when they are overwhelmed or under extreme stress. Sensors in the pilot’s helmet will monitor brain signals and other medical data. As a result, the AI will amass a massive biometric and psychometric information database over the course of several flights. Because…

The UK economy shrank in the past 2 months, as experts predicted a bleak future with a possible recession. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the economy contracted by 0.1% in the second quarter of this year. This was due in part to the end of Covid schemes such as Test and Trace, a drop in retail sales, and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee bank holiday in June, according to the report. As energy prices rise, the Bank of England predicts that the UK will enter a recession by the end of the year. Despite contracting between April and…

For the first time, Chinese internet giants such as Alibaba, Tiktok-owner ByteDance, and Tencent have shared details about their algorithms with China’s regulators. Algorithms determine what users see and the order in which they see it, and they are critical to the growth of social media platforms. Meta and Alphabet have successfully argued that they are trade secrets in the United States, despite calls for greater transparency. The Chinese Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has published a list of 30 algorithms with descriptions. It stated in a statement that its algorithm list would be routinely updated in order to prevent data abuse.…

A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard offered $300,000 in the assassination scheme of Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton. According to Justice Department officials, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot targeting former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Federal charges unsealed against Shahram Poursafi, who allegedly attempted to arrange Bolton’s assassination in retaliation for a US drone strike in Baghdad in 2020 that killed Iran commander Qasem Soleimani. According to federal prosecutors, Poursafi attempted to pay a U.S. contact $300,000 to carry out the plot, unaware that the unidentified person was a…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi upheld her decision to visit Taiwan last week, saying “it was worth it,” despite China’s actions since she left the island. Since Pelosi’s divisive trip, China has withdrawn from climate talks and expanded threatening military exercises around Taiwan, disrupting shipping and air traffic and raising fears of conflict in a vital trade region. Taiwan warned Tuesday that Chinese military drills are more than just a dress rehearsal for an invasion of the self-governing island, but also reflect Beijing’s ambitions to control large swaths of the western Pacific, as Taipei conducted its own drills to demonstrate its…

Former US President Donald Trump has claimed that the FBI raided his Florida home and broke open a safe. Mr Trump said in a statement that his Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, was “occupied by a large group of FBI agents.” The search on Monday was reportedly related to an investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of official documents. “These are dark times for our country,” Mr Trump said in a statement. “Nothing like this beofre ever happened to a United States president”. The FBI and the Justice Department have both declined to comment on the reported search. An unnamed law enforcement…