While experts debate whether the presence of bollards in New Orleans would have prevented the tragedy, some believe that even with the barriers, the power and speed of a large vehicle could still pose a serious threat.
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Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
Local leaders are fielding tough questions over whether the New Orleans attack on New Year's Day that killed 14 people and injured another 35 could have been prevented.
What a contrast to Liverpool’s visit in September 2023 when Luis Diaz had a goal wrongly disallowed by VAR, Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota were sent off, and Joel Matip’s late own goal consigned Jurgen Klopp’s side to defeat.
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James Pearce,
The Athletic,
23 Dec. 2024
Content that violates site-wide rules should be disallowed and removed.
Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees, and workers were shut out of email as termination notices arrived.
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Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
14 Feb. 2025
The Sacramento Kings may not have any players representing the franchise at the NBA’s annual All-Star festivities this coming weekend in San Francisco, effectively shut out of the midseason showcase for the first time in more than a decade.
Unlike other fields that have large, high-quality datasets available to train AI models, such as image analysis and language processing, the AI in drug development is constrained by small, low-quality datasets.
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Christian Macedonia,
The Conversation,
3 Jan. 2025
Even constrained by the low initial altitude, the toss method helps keep Ukrainian jets outside the range of Russia’s most dangerous surface-to-air missile batteries.
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