If you are battling a video game goblin who speaks with a Cockney accent, or asking a gruff Scottish blacksmith to forge a virtual sword, you might be hearing the voice of actor Andy Magee. Except it’s not quite Magee’s voice. It’s a synthetic voice clone generated by artificial intelligence. As video game worlds get more expansive, some game studios …
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Estancamiento de ayuda estadounidense a Ucrania subraya que republicanos evitan confrontar a Rusia
Aproximadamente a las 2 a.m. del martes pasado, el senador republicano Ron Johnson se presentó en el pleno del Senado y explicó por qué se oponía a enviar más ayuda para apoyar a Ucrania a defenderse de la invasión lanzada en 2022 por el presidente ruso Vladímir Putin. “No me gusta esta realidad”, dijo Johnson. “Vladímir Putin es un criminal …
Read More »Guatemalan accused of importing fentanyl precursors for Mexican cartel arrested
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have detained a Guatemalan man wanted by the United States for allegedly participating in the importation of precursor chemicals used by the Sinaloa cartel to make fentanyl, officials said Monday. Immigration authorities stopped Jason Antonio Yang López at the airport in Tapachula on Sunday and turned him over to agents from the Chiapas state …
Read More »Alaska’s chief medical officer, a public face of the state’s pandemic response, is resigning
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Dr. Anne Zink, who was a public face of Alaska’s pandemic response, is resigning as the state’s chief medical officer. Zink plans to continue working full-time in the role until early April, the Anchorage Daily News reported. An email seeking comment was sent to a state health department spokesperson by The Associated Press on Monday, a …
Read More »VAMOS y Arena dicen pedirán anulación de las elecciones en El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Bajo el argumento de una serie de irregularidades durante el proceso de escrutinio, dos partidos políticos anunciaron el domingo que solicitarán la anulación de los comicios presidenciales y legislativos del pasado 4 de febrero en El Salvador. La diputada del partido VAMOS Claudia Ortiz, quien habría logrado la reelección para un segundo periodo en el Congreso, …
Read More »A prayer for Evita: Here’s why many Argentines are devoted to a first lady who died in 1952
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Early every morning, just as she reaches her workplace at a labor union in Buenos Aires, Ángeles Celerier heads to the chapel and prays to Saint Cajetan, Saint Teresa and Eva Perón. Perón — unlike the others — has not been canonized by the Vatican, but this doesn’t matter to Celerier. “For me, she is …
Read More »China’s coast guard to ramp up patrols near Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago after 2 fishermen drown
BANGKOK (AP) — China is stepping up patrols in the waters off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, days after two of its fishermen drowned while being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard, which accused the boat of trespassing. The Chinese coast guard’s Fujian division will regularly monitor the waters off the southern coast of the city of Xiamen — …
Read More »Top UN court to hold hearings on legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian-claimed lands
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court opens historic hearings Monday into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Six days of hearings are scheduled at the International Court of Justice, during which an unprecedented number of …
Read More »Leaking underground propane tank found at Virginia home before deadly house explosion
STERLING, Va. (AP) — When firefighters arrived at a home in a Washington, D.C., suburb to investigate a report about a gas smell Friday night, they discovered a 500-gallon underground propane tank with a leak on the side of the residence. Shortly after they arrived, the house exploded and burst into flames, with multiple mayday calls coming from the firefighters …
Read More »WWII Monuments Men weren’t all men. The female members finally move into the spotlight
DALLAS (AP) — After World War II, the U.S. Army’s art experts set out to find and return millions of works stolen by the Nazis. Known as the Monuments Men, they included Mary Regan Quessenberry, who from her base in Berlin traveled to examine stolen works, tracked looting cases and investigated suspicious art dealers. Decades later, Quessenberry and the other …
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