USA:s nya Kubapolitik är en vändpunkt för hela regionen, deklarerade president Barack Obama när han tog till orda inför det panamerikanska toppmötet i Panama. Senare träffades han och Kubas president Raúl Castro enskilt. Stora förhoppningar har knutits till det mötet.

En kraftig brand bröt ut i Hägerstenshamnens skola i södra Stockholm på lördagskvällen.

New submitter arctother writes: Taxicab Subjects has posted a response to a Morgan Stanley analyst's recent take on how driverless cars will shape society in the future. From the article: [R]eally, 'autonomy' is still not the right word for it. Just as the old-fashioned 'automobile' was never truly 'auto-mobile,' but relied, not only on human drivers, but an entire concrete infrastructure built into cities and smeared across the countryside, so the interconnected 'autonomous vehicles' of the future will be even more dependent on the interconnected systems of which they are part. To see this as 'autonomy' is to miss the deeper reality, which will be control. Which is why the important movement reflected in the chart's up-down continuum is not away from 'Human Drivers' to 'Autonomous' cars, but from a relatively decentralized system (which relies on large numbers of people knowing how to drive) to an increasingly centralized system (relying on the knowledge of a small number of people)."

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New submitter arctother writes: Taxicab Subjects has posted a response to a Morgan Stanley analyst's recent take on how driverless cars will shape society in the future. From the article: [R]eally, 'autonomy' is still not the right word for it. Just as the old-fashioned 'automobile' was never truly 'auto-mobile,' but relied, not only on human drivers, but an entire concrete infrastructure built into cities and smeared across the countryside, so the interconnected 'autonomous vehicles' of the future will be even more dependent on the interconnected systems of which they are part. To see this as 'autonomy' is to miss the deeper reality, which will be control. Which is why the important movement reflected in the chart's up-down continuum is not away from 'Human Drivers' to 'Autonomous' cars, but from a relatively decentralized system (which relies on large numbers of people knowing how to drive) to an increasingly centralized system (relying on the knowledge of a small number of people)."

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Police announce a security lockdown, shutting down streets, after person shoots self dead.

The release of a man accused of the 2008 Mumbai attacks has caused anger in India.

Tennessee permits gun-toting in all public parks after Kansas became fifth state to allow carrying gun without license.

Ett larm om skottlossning fick polisen att stänga och spärra av USA:s kongress på lördagen. Besökscentret stängdes i Capitolium, den byggnad i Washington DC där kongressen har sitt säte. Trafiken stoppades på flera gator i närheten.

En kraftig brand bröt ut i Hägerstenshamnens skola i södra Stockholm på lördagskvällen.

Över 500 Huthirebeller har dödats sedan Saudiarabien gav sin in i konflikten i Jemen den 26 mars. Det uppger saudiska försvarsdepartementet för den statliga nyhetsbyrån SPA. Enligt uttalandet har rebellerna dödats i sammandrabbningar längs gränsen mellan länderna.

Försvarsförhandlingarna pågår för fullt. Och svenskarnas stöd för att Försvaret ska få mer pengar har ökat.

sciencehabit writes: Nanotechnology might soon save you a trip to the dentist. Researchers have developed tiny sphere-shaped particles that ferry a payload of bacteria-slaying drugs to the surface of the teeth, where they fight plaque and tooth decay on the spot (abstract). The approach could also be adapted to combat other plaquelike substances, known as biofilms, such as those that form on medical devices like orthopedic implants.

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Nairobi has given UN three months to move the camp over the border into Somalia.