News Headlines - 11 May 2018
Israel has released footage of the moment one of its missiles destroyed an Iranian air defence battery in Syria as part of its retaliation over strikes on Golan Heights... It was released as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran had “crossed a red line” by firing a barrage of 20 rockets across the border overnight.
▽Uber Finds Deadly Accident Likely Caused By Software Set to Ignore Objects On Road — The Information
The car’s sensors detected the pedestrian, who was crossing the street with a bicycle, but Uber’s software decided it didn’t need to react right away. That’s a result of how the software was tuned. Like other autonomous vehicle systems, Uber’s software has the ability to ignore “false positives,” or objects in its path that wouldn’t actually be a problem for the vehicle, such as a plastic bag floating over a road. In this case, Uber executives believe the company’s system was tuned so that it reacted less to such objects. But the tuning went too far, and the car didn’t react fast enough, one of these people said.
A 76-year-old man has finally met his long-lost daughter whose mother was a former Catholic nun. Edward Hayes said that the nun repeatedly sexually abused him when he was serving as a 12-year-old altar boy and she eventually fell pregnant.
▽Leopard snatches and eats toddler at Queen Elizabeth National park in Uganda
Ugandan authorities are hunting for a leopard in Queen Elizabeth National park after it snatched and ate a ranger's three-year-old son.
The toddler had been left in the care of a nanny at the unfenced staff quarters of a safari lodge in the park, when he was taken by the leopard on Friday night.
▽India girl, 16, burnt alive after Jharkhand rape - BBC News
A 16-year-old girl in India was burnt alive after her parents complained to village elders that she had been raped, according to police.
Fourteen people have been arrested in connection with the attacks in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.
