Microsoft unveiled a new Teams AI interpreter on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The program can replicate a user’s voice in near-real-time in nine different languages. The company said it plans to expand to 31 different languages in the future. The languages reportedly range from English, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. The feature…

Plenty of people in the United States threatened to leave the country if Donald Trump won a second presidency. He did, and now one Italian village is inviting Americans to put their money where their mouth is, even if it’s not much. The rural village of Ollolai on the Italian island of Sardinia is offering…

British car manufacturer Jaguar is rolling out a rebrand complete with a new logo. The new look and the colorful promotional video that came with it have many online criticizing the move. The rebrand comes as Jaguar sales have declined in the U.S. and the brand pivots to ultra-luxury electric vehicles. Jaguar’s 30-second promotional video,…

President Joe Biden has approved the use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles on Russian territory and authorized the distribution of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine. According to U.S. officials, the mines are designed to deactivate after a set period and will only be deployed within Ukrainian territory. Russia has made significant battlefield gains this year, seizing nearly…

While Russia is suspected of severing two communication cable lines between NATO allies in the Baltic Sea by the West, a Chinese vessel was also implicated in the incident on Wednesday, Nov. 20, as Danish authorities detained the vessel. The cuts in the Baltic Sea happened on Sunday, Nov. 17 and on Monday, Nov. 18.…

Canadian authorities have reportedly foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister and prominent human rights advocate. Cotler, 84, was informed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Oct. 26 about the threat and has since been placed under police protection. Cotler, a longtime critic of Iran’s government,…

The Texas State Board of Education has advanced a plan to incorporate Bible-based lessons into elementary school classrooms, marking one of the latest efforts by Republican-led states to introduce religious content into public education. The proposal, which would be optional for schools, includes financial incentives for those who adopt it, offering $60 per student in…

The world’s most powerful onshore wind turbine has officially been switched on in China. With blades reaching heights comparable to the Great Pyramid of Giza, the turbine boasts an energy capacity of 15 megawatts – enough to supply electricity to approximately 160,000 households. This new onshore model more than doubles the power rating of its…

The ads for the best sales of the season and Black Friday deals are aimed at attracting those day-after Thanksgiving shoppers. Cyber security experts are sounding the alarm that scammers are now using AI to turn it into so-called “Black Fraud Day.” Richard Horne, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Center in the U.K.,…

A South Carolina mother convicted of killing her two sons by drowning them in a lake 30 years ago is up for parole. Susan Smith is serving a life sentence for rolling her car into a lake with her 3-year-old and 14-month-old boys strapped into their car seats in 1994. At her trial, prosecutors said…