Search results for "americans"
-
White House aide looks forward to growing U.S.-Pakistan relationship
The United States and Pakistan have a lot to gain by working with each other, a senior aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, said while speaking at a Pakistan Day event at the country’s embassy in...Mar 24, 2018 1206 0 -
Mark Zuckerberg regrets Facebook data breach amid privacy concerns
Photo Credit: Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com/ bub.blicio.us/Wikimedia Commons Faced with criticism over privacy concerns of Facebook users, the CEO of the social media giant Mark Zuckerberg has regretted the reported data breach of 50 million Americans that took...Mar 22, 2018 1121 0 -
Activists display empty shoes on Capitol lawn to press gun reform
Proponents of gun reform took their message to U.S. Congress with a display of thousands of empty pairs of shoes, memoraliazing children killed in gun shootings since 2012. An advocacy group, Avaaz, which organized the event...Mar 14, 2018 1146 0 -
Facebook, YouTube dominate American social media landscape
Americans use multiple social media platforms in early 2018 with Facebook and YouTube dominating the landscape while Snapchat and Instagram being favorites with majority of young people. A new Pew Research Center survey says nearly two-thirds...Mar 2, 2018 1882 0 -
White House cites support for infrastructure reform
Photo: Cezary p/wikimedia The White House on Wednesday said Americans across the spectrum support taking actions to rebuild America’s infrastructure as President Donald Trump pledged reform to step up work toward that end. Trump has proposed...Feb 14, 2018 1383 0 -
UN chief pays tribute to Asma Jehangir; Says she will not be forgotten
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres paid tribute to Pakistani human rights champion, who passed away in Lahore on Sunday, calling her a “human rights giant” In addition to her lifelong struggles for rights of...Feb 12, 2018 1815 0 -
Times Square rally ugres freedom for Kashmir
A map of disputed Kashmir region Credit: Planemad/Wikimedia Commons A demonstration in New York’s Times Square called for freedom of Kashmir, drawing attention to Indian atrocities and asking the UN to honor its commitment to help...Feb 6, 2018 2459 0 -
Artificial Intelligence: Are we transferring our biases to machines?
Photo: Polimerek in MIT Museum duringWikimania 2006/Wikimedia Are we transferring our biases to computers? With supervised learning, machines learn what we teach them. Just like our kids often perpetuate our belief systems, biases, and preferences, will...Feb 4, 2018 1344 0 -
Trump sticks to his call for sweeping immigration reform
President Donald Trump spoke of a “new American moment” in his State of the Union as he stuck to his call for a sweeping immigration reform with the construction of US-Mexican border wall, end to Diversity...Jan 31, 2018 1097 0 -
Pakistan embassy launches new website to improve services
Pakistan’s embassy in Washington D.C. has launched a new website as part of the public diplomacy efforts and improve access to information through a variety of new links. Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said at the inaugural...Jan 28, 2018 1171 0