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Promobot talks about service robotics and the future of the industry [Q&A]

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Robots are one of the main world trends in the world of technology. Automation and AI are increasingly entering our lives, and robotics is the most dynamically developing industry.
Robots are one of the main world trends in the world of technology. Automation and AI are increasingly entering our lives, and robotics is the most dynamically developing industry.
Russian company Promobot is the largest manufacturer of autonomous service robots in Russia, Northern and Eastern Europe. Several hundred Promobot robots already work in the US, China, Kazakhstan, Ireland, the UK, Spain, Chile and other countries around the world. They work as administrators, promoters, hostesses, are able to increase the financial performance of companies, the quality of service and customer loyalty.
Oleg Kivokurtsev, development director at Promobot, spoke to ITProPortal about the service robotics and the robots produced by his company.
ITPP: What are the key areas in robotics that the Promobot is being used for at the moment?
OK: To date, several hundred Promobot robots are operating in 13 countries around the world. They can communicate on any topic, advise, show various materials on the built-in display. To perform the functions of administrator, promoter, hostess, museum guide, consultant in cinemas, shopping centers and business centers, as well as in crowded places where assistance is needed
ITPP: How developed is the field of AI robotics in Russia at the moment?
OK: The direction of artificial intelligence is developing very intensively. First of all, the development of neural networks is actively proceeding. Today, neural networks are widely used in search engines, in email-analytics systems, in BigData systems in the banking industry.
In addition, artificial intelligence develops in the direction of video analysis. There are several companies that deal with the processing of video using neural networks and algorithms of artificial intelligence. These are companies such as VisionLabs, Vocord, Tevian. And their algorithms, to date, are the best in the world.
AI is also developed by our company and is used in our robots: in the direction of speech recognition, face recognition, autonomous route construction and linguistic base.
Our most important result in the direction of artificial intelligence is the neurolinguistic base, which allows the robot to answer questions as consciously as possible. It is enough just to load a certain amount of data, for example 200 pages of text, and the robot, after analyzing this text, will be able to make the most accurate answers, which, in turn, greatly simplifies the work with the robot and its customization.
AI is actively developing in the military industry. There is a whole line of robotic devices used in the direction of defense.
AI is used in computer security systems, and many can confirm that Russia is one of the leaders in the field of computer security in the world, and this is all thanks to the AI.
ITPP: How do you plan to overcome the public’s aversion to robots in their everyday life?
OK: The society negatively perceives robots for two reasons.
First, if the appearance of the robot causes it to be in an «uncanny valley.» Namely, scientists and researchers carried out an experiment called «Phenomenon of the uncanny valley» — it means that if a robot visually resembles a person, but there are certain inconsistencies, then a person has unpleasant feelings about it. The robot begins to be perceived as a zombie or a sick person, so the robot in an uncanny valley.
Our robots were designed taking it into account, they are not anthropomorphic and do not fall into an uncanny valley. They are more abstract models and associated with technology.
Secondly, people are afraid of robots because of the risks inherent in artificial intelligence. Mankind is afraid that AI, sooner or later, will be capable of harming and destroying humanity.
We, for our part, are participants of the list of the world community of robotics, which stands for regulating the use of AI in the military industry.
Namely, we propose to limit the use of AI in the direction of the nuclear industry. If one uses AI in the field of object recognition, then one should apply it in a special way. It is necessary that the final order is given by a person, not by a machine.
In general, people are already ready for the presence of robots in our lives. In most cases, robots are perceived positively. Promobot is popular among people — unlike a living consultant, the robot does not get tired, it is always in a good mood and knows everything, he does not need breaks for lunch and holidays. He will never offend, unlike a regular employee.
ITPP: What is your main R&D focus going forward?
OK: So, now we have two flagship products — they are Promobot v.2 and Promobot v.3. They are designed for different purposes. Promobot v.2 is designed to advise, speak about products, perform the functions of an assistant, consultant to improve the quality of service and financial performance of the company, while Promobot v.3 is created to perform narrow business tasks .
It is an open robotic platform, it has open APIs and SDK with which it can be built in the business processes of the company in which it operates. For example, if it works in the retail industry, it can integrate with the internal accounting system of goods, and there are a lot of such options. Also, the developer can create his own applications, and, in the future, to make money on it.
This all is impossible without the basic functions of the robot — and we daily develop and refine them.
We regularly improve speech recognition: our robot can hear a person, understand its question and consciously respond, regardless of the noise in the room.
We are focused on developing and optimising the face recognition system, which allows our robots, to understand with whom they communicate, accordingly, and have a dialogue and it can understand who is in front of it in a dimly lit room and even without lighting.
Now we use the technology of neural networks, which allows us to load an array of plain text into the robot, and the robot, without any human help, can navigate in this text, and, accordingly, give the right advice, as a consequence, to be useful and effective in business in which it is applied.
We carry out developments in the field of navigation, mechatronics, we add gestures, the ability to adjust to the growth of the interlocutor and so on. In addition, we are developing in the field of artificial intelligence, which is used in some of our modules. We focus on this direction, and our main task is the distribution of our robots around the world.
ITPP: What do you think will be some of the best use cases for the Promobot?
OK: Several hundred of our robots work in 13 countries around the world, as administrators, promoters, consultants, hostesses, museum guides and even concierges.
We have a lot of successful cases. For example, a robot guide in the Museum of Modern History of Russia in Moscow. In this museum you can ask a robot for a tour. When it gathers a group, the robot starts to conduct an excursion: it rides from exhibit to exhibit, stops at each, tells about it and answers the visitors’ questions. Thus, the process of conducting excursions is automated. The robot knows the answers to all questions, is able to conduct quality excursions and does not need rest or holiday.
The second interesting case of application is the retail industry. In this sphere the robot is able to consult shop visitors about the products. For example, a buyer needs milk and he cannot find it. It is enough for him to approach the robot and ask him where the milk is — the robot leads him to the milk counter, and also tells about the current discounts and promotions of the store. This increases the sales of the store and allows one to save on sales consultants.
Promobot is used in the banking industry. Our robot is able to help make a contract, consult on all banking products, accounts, deposits. It is able to send a contract for printing, and the client will only have to sign the contract. The robot automates the work with visitors, improves the quality of services and financial indicators of the bank.
ITPP: How developed do you think the robotics market can become in the future?
OK: The robotics market is growing very actively. According to the International Federation of the Robotics Market, annual growth is 500 percent.
The main industries where robots will come to are:
First, where it’s dangerous to work. Elimination of emergency situations, oil, coal and gas production, construction.
Secondly, these are harmful industries, the work in which is harmful to human health. For example, metallurgy.
And, thirdly, robots will come to where it is boring to work. They will replace sales consultants, promoters, security guards. For this purpose, there is a special branch of service robotics. It is also developing rapidly — the characteristics are improving, the components are getting cheaper.
We are waiting for total robotization, a robot will be introduced in each process, and a person will have great prospects for creativity, science, self-development, sports, and, most importantly, the discovery of new horizons such as space.
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英首相、EU離脱後2年の移行期間を提案

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英国の メイ首相は22日、 EUから離脱した後「およそ2年間」 の 移行期間を設けることを提案した。 記事全文>>>
英国のメイ首相は22日、EUから離脱した後「およそ2年間」の移行期間を設けることを提案した。
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Facebook’s Belated Awakening

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As social media companies wield greater power in the political system, more safeguards are needed.
Chastened by criticism that Facebook had turned a blind eye to Russia’s manipulation of the social network to interfere in the 2016 election, the company’s executives now acknowledge a need to do better and have promised to be more transparent about who is paying for political ads. That’s a good start, but more is required — of Facebook, of social media giants generally and of Congress.
Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder and the chief executive of Facebook, said on Thursday that the company would give congressional investigators more than 3,000 Russia-linked ads and would begin disclosing the names of Facebook business accounts that place political ads on the site. He also said the company would hire more people to improve security, work more closely with election regulators and crack down on political harassment.
“I don’t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy,” he said. “That’s not what we stand for.” A day earlier his top lieutenant, Sheryl Sandberg, pledged to change the company’s systems so ad buyers couldn’t target their missives to racists and anti-Semites. These statements came two weeks after Facebook said that a business linked to the Russian government had placed $100,000 worth of divisive ads on the site between 2015 and May of this year.
Companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google have become a huge force in the political system and in society broadly. While their executives have eagerly embraced their status as disrupters and innovators, they have been reluctant to acknowledge that their creations have been used to do harm. Technology executives have been loath to accept much or any responsibility for the power they and their businesses wield. In fact, many of them have gone out of their way to avoid or evade rules that apply to the traditional businesses that they are trying to displace. For example, Facebook argued in a 2011 letter to the Federal Election Commission that it and other internet companies should not be subject to regulations on political ads that radio and TV stations have to abide by.
Mr. Zuckerberg’s concern about democracy is commendable, and some of the changes he announced could have a positive impact. But they apply only to his company and can be easily evaded. Disclosing the name of Facebook business accounts placing political ads, for instance, will be of little value if purchasers can disguise their real identity — calling themselves, say, Americans for Motherhood and Apple Pie. Further, even if Facebook succeeds in driving away foreign propaganda, the same material could pop up on Twitter or other social media sites.
More comprehensive safeguards will need intervention from Congress, which could begin by passing a law requiring online political ads — those that mention candidates seeking office or that advocate for certain political outcomes — to disclose who paid for them. Congress should also require internet companies to preserve the ads, and data about the groups the ads were targeted against, to help investigators looking into illicit activities. Two Democratic senators — Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Mark Warner of Virginia — are planning to introduce a bill with some of these ideas.
Of course, legislation cannot completely protect American elections from outside interference. It was already illegal for foreigners to purchase political ads when Russian agents started their Facebook campaign. Stronger enforcement of those rules would help, but that would require broader reforms, like replacing the Federal Election Commission, a toothless watchdog often paralyzed by partisan gridlock, with a new agency that has an odd number of members, including a nonpartisan election law expert.
An educational effort by government, schools, civil society groups and the media to help people distinguish facts from fakery might help. Regrettably, President Trump has elevated “alternative facts” to a high political art, and many members of his party and its talking-head cheerleaders seem perfectly happy to follow his lead. The willingness of social media to serve as a theater for obvious propaganda doesn’t help advance the cause of truth.

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Drohende Wirtschaftseinbußen?: Moody's stuft Bonität herab

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Wird die britische Wirtschaft durch den Brexit geschwächt? Das befürchtet zumindest die US-Ratingagentur Moody’s. Sie stufte nur wenige Stunden nach der Rede von Premierministerin May Großbritanniens Kreditwürdigkeit herab.
Wird die britische Wirtschaft durch den Brexit geschwächt? Das befürchtet zumindest die US-Ratingagentur Moody’s. Sie stufte nur wenige Stunden nach der Rede von Premierministerin May Großbritanniens Kreditwürdigkeit herab.
Die britische Premierministerin Theresa May verspricht, dass Großbritannien durch den Austritt aus der EU langfristig gestärkt wird: Das Land soll seine finanziellen Pflichten als EU-Mitglied loswerden oder weniger für EU-Ausländer zahlen, die auf den britischen Inseln arbeiten.
Doch die US-Ratingagentur Moody’s befürchtet das genaue Gegenteil: Die Aussichten für die Staatsfinanzen Großbritanniens habe sich durch den für 2019 angesetzten Brexit «erheblich verschlechtert». Darum stuften die Bonitätswächter die Kreditwürdigkeit des Landes herab — von «Aa1» auf «Aa2».
Der Agentur zufolge ist durch den EU-Ausstieg mit steigenden Schulden zu rechnen, ob Konsolidierungsbemühungen Erfolg hätten, bezweifeln die Wirtschaftsexperten.
Trotzdem bleibe Großbritannien ein «stabiler» Wirtschaftsmarkt und sei für sichere Geldanlagen auch in Zukunft geeignet. Mit einer weiteren Herabstufung sei nicht zu rechnen, hieß es von Moody’s weiter.

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МИД: мы разочарованы нежеланием румынской стороны к диалогу

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В Министерстве иностранных дел Украины заявили, что «внутриполитическая дискуссия не должна негативно влиять на двусторонние отношения».
КИЕВ, 22 сен — РИА Новости Украина. Визит президента Румынии Клауса Йоханниса в Украину не отменен, а перенесен, заявили в Министерстве иностранных дел Украины.
Ранее сообщалось, что президент Румынии Клаусс Йоханнис решил отменить визит в Украину и встречу с премьер-министром Владимиром Гройсманом якобы из-за принятия Верховной Радой закона «Об образовании».
«Визит не отменен, а перенесен», — отметили во внешнеполитическом ведомстве в пятницу.
Также в МИД отметили, что соответствующую ноту получили еще на прошлой неделе. «Это исключительное решение румынской стороны», — отметили в МИД.
«Мы разочарованы нежеланием румынской стороны к диалогу между лидерами. Внутриполитическая дискуссия не должна негативно влиять на двусторонние отношения. Мы подтверждаем заинтересованность в продолжении конструктивного диалога и ожидаем его продолжения в ближайшее время», — заявили в пресс-службе МИД.
Также в министерстве напомнили, что 19 сентября министр иностранных дел Украины Павел Климкин и глава внешнеполитического ведомства Румынии Теодор Мелешкану обсудили вопросы недавно принятого Закона Украины «Об образовании».
Верховная Рада во вторник, 5 сентября, одобрила новый закон об образовании. Как заявила министр образования Украины Лилия Гриневич, принятый закон предполагает, что дети представителей нацменьшинств сначала будут изучать предметы на родном языке, в 5-9-м классах у них будут вводиться предметы на украинском языке преподавания, «а в старшей школе это могут быть почти все предметы на украинском языке». Такой сценарий предусмотрен для всех нацменьшинств, в том числе для школ с исключительно русским языком преподавания.
Напомним, Венгрия обратилась с жалобой в международные организации в связи с принятым ранее Верховной Радой Украины законом об образовании, который, по мнению венгерской стороны, ущемляет права национальных меньшинства в Украине.

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Порошенко: Канада поддерживает Украину в политике безопасности и обороны

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Украина чувствует поддержку Канады в вопросе безопасности и обороны, считает президент Украины Петр Порошенко.
Украина чувствует поддержку Канады в вопросе безопасности и обороны, считает президент Украины Петр Порошенко.
«Друзья познаются в беде. И все время мы чувствуем плечо Канады, в том числе в политике безопасности и обороны», — написал П. Порошенко на своей странице в Фейсбук в пятницу вечером.
По словам П. Порошенко, канадские инструкторы и военные помогают в тренировках украинских коллег.
«Также мы благодарны канадским друзьям за поддержку в проведении реформ», — написал лидер Украины.

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Prospect of Atmospheric Nuclear Test by North Korea Raises Specter of Danger

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Stopping Kim Jong-un from conducting a nuclear test over the Pacific may be as dangerous as letting him go ahead.
WASHINGTON — If North Korea follows through on its threat to conduct an atmospheric nuclear test, it would be a far more dangerous step than anything Kim Jong-un, its leader, has attempted — and poses a host of hard decisions for the Trump administration because attempting to stop the test could be as dangerous as letting it go ahead.
All six of the North’s nuclear tests have been underground, containing the radioactive fallout. But an atmospheric test — perhaps with a warhead shot over the Pacific on a North Korean missile, or set off from a ship or barge — would put the populations below at the mercy of the North’s accuracy and at the winds that sweep up the radioactive cloud.
That is why the United States and the Soviet Union banned such tests in their first nuclear test-ban treaty, more than a half-century ago.
It is exactly that fear of an environmental or humanitarian calamity that Mr. Kim appears eager to foster as he looks for ways to strike back at the United States, Japan and others seeking to choke off his money and trade. But experts who have been through the uncertainties of nuclear testing say there are risks all around, for Mr. Kim as well as his foes.
“It is not clear North Korea has that capability yet,’’ said Siegfried S. Hecker, the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the nuclear weapons expert the North Koreans let in to see their uranium enrichment plants years ago, when they wanted to make clear to the Obama administration that their atomic weapons program was moving ahead, unimpeded by sanctions.
“Besides,” said Dr. Hecker, now a professor at Stanford University, “a live missile test — one loaded with an H-bomb — poses enormous risk.” He recalled that when the United States performed such tests in the early days of the Cold War, “one blew up on the launchpad and one had to be destroyed right after launch, creating significant radioactive contamination.”
The North Koreans have studied this history, too, according to current and former American intelligence officials. But the appeal of an atmospheric test is obvious: It would create a sense of fear that an explosion deep inside a tunnel in North Korea does not. The underground tests are detected on a Richter scale; an atmospheric test, like the kind the United States conducted at Bikini Atoll starting in 1948, creates a terrifying mushroom cloud.
The largest of those, a 1954 test code-named Castle Bravo, turned out to be roughly three times larger than American bomb designers anticipated. They had made a mathematical miscalculation about the power of one of the nuclear fuels contained in the weapon, and the explosion spread radioactive material across the globe. Ultimately, Castle Bravo helped fuel the call for a ban on atmospheric tests.
No one knows what kind of test the North Koreans have in mind; the country’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, did not specify when he raised the possibility when talking to reporters at the United Nations on Thursday. “This could probably mean the strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean,” he said. “Regarding which measures to take, I don’t really know since it is what Kim Jong-un does.”
But the presumption is that if Mr. Kim decided to go ahead, the North would attempt to conduct the test by firing it on a missile, presumably to an empty spot in the Pacific. The goal would be to demonstrate that it had solved all the technological issues involved in delivering a nuclear weapon to an American city.
But that form of testing — putting a live weapon on a missile — is particularly risky. Other countries have blanched at the potential for disaster, Dr. Hecker noted, including the Chinese, who conducted one missile launch with a live nuclear weapon in the warhead. It worked as planned, he said, but “the Chinese considered the risks unacceptable” and never tried it again. In the hands of the North Koreans, some say, it would be even riskier.
“This would be a regional nightmare” for East Asia, said Heather Conley, a former senior State Department official, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
It is possible the threat will never come to fruition. Detonating a weapon inside a missile warhead, or even from a ship or barge, would be far more difficult for the North than setting one off inside a mountain, where engineers have months to wire up the weapon, and no time pressure.
It would require what experts call a “weaponized device” that could survive shocks, stresses and, if launched from a missile, the heat of re-entry into the atmosphere, something North Korea has never demonstrated it can handle.
“The DPRK would be taking a big risk — missile tests fail,” said Philip E. Coyle III, a nuclear scientist and former head of the Pentagon’s weapons testing. The live nuclear warhead could come down on a neighboring country, or if the missile blew up on the launchpad — as has been known to happen — set off the nuclear warhead in North Korea.
The transportation risks would be enormous, including the chance of an accidental detonation before the nuclear device reached the target zone. And while the world’s best missiles fail roughly once in every 100 flights, the failure rate for the North’s missiles is much higher. Last year, one type of missile failed seven out of eight times, perhaps in part because it had been targeted by a series of cyber attacks ordered by President Barack Obama. Since then, the North has ceased testing that type of missile and been more successful with others.
And even if one of the North’s missiles succeeded in lofting a nuclear weapon, the bigger challenge would be bringing it back down during the fiery re-entry. The heat, pressures and forces of deceleration are enormous. To date, evidence from the North’s test launches suggests it is still in the beginning stages of learning how to build a survivable warhead.
It would be far easier for the North to entrust a nuclear weapon to a plane or a boat. But it has few with the long-range capability for the job, and the chances that the United States or its allies would detect it in transit are considerable.
It would also break a taboo. It has been 37 years since any nation tested a nuclear weapon in the planet’s atmosphere. And given what is now known about the effects that radioactive fallout from such tests has on human health and the environment, one now would only intensify the international opprobrium Mr. Kim already faces.
According to one estimate by a physicians group opposed to nuclear weapons, 2.4 million people could die from cancer caused by the radioactivity from the more than 2,000 known tests that have already taken place.
The last atmospheric test took place on Oct. 16,1980, when China fired what experts believed to be a nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles into a desert salt flat along what was once the Silk Road, more than 1,300 miles west of Beijing.
The United States attempted a missile-launched nuclear test so only once — on May 6,1962 — during a frenzy of Cold War tests. A submerged submarine, the Ethan Allen, fired a Polaris A-2 missile in the direction of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. After traveling more than 1,200 miles, its warhead exploded at an altitude exceeding 10,000 feet.
That test helped spur negotiations that ultimately led to a treaty banning tests in the atmosphere, outer space or underwater. It was in signed in 1963 by the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain.
In 1996, a far broader agreement to ban all nuclear testing, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, was adopted at the United Nations and has been ratified by 166 states. The United States, China and North Korea are among the holdouts, along with Egypt, India, Israel, Iran and Pakistan.
An effort by the Clinton administration to ratify the treaty failed; Mr. Obama promised to resubmit it for ratification but never did, fearing a second defeat. The United States and China have adhered to its restrictions, even if neither has ratified it.

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Deaf man's family calls for Oklahoma City officer's arrest

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Family of deaf man killed by Oklahoma City police officer calls for officer’s arrest and independent investigations into shooting.
An Oklahoma City police officer who killed a deaf man should be arrested and investigations into the shooting need to be launched on the state and federal levels, the man’s family said Friday.
In a statement released through their attorney, family members of Magdiel Sanchez called for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and U. S. Department of Justice to open separate investigations into the shooting of their loved one.
«We are devastated by Magdiel’s death and the fact it occurred at the hands of (Oklahoma City police) even though he was not a suspect for any crime, was not breaking any laws, and was standing in his own front yard with his trusted walking stick,» the family said in the statement. «It is truly unconscionable that a man in Magdiel’s condition and circumstances would be killed by the very people who the community looks to for protection.»
The statement, released by attorneys Melvin Hall and Damario Solomon-Simmons, said Magdiel was completely deaf and also developmentally disabled. The family also accuses Oklahoma City police Chief Bill Citty of rushing to release information before an investigation is complete in an attempt to «taint the investigation in his officer’s favor.»
Police have said officers who responded to a hit-and-run accident Tuesday night encountered the 35-year-old Sanchez holding a metal pipe. Witnesses yelled «he can’t hear you» before the officers fired, but they didn’t hear them, police said.
The Oklahoma Association for the Deaf said Friday that police have reached out to the organization since the shooting, but that more needs to be done, including teaching officers to recognize the deaf and learn to visually communicate with those who can’t hear.
Association Treasurer Johnny Reininger told The Associated Press through an interpreter that not all deaf people use sign language and many use hand and arm gestures to communicate.
«At this time our deaf community feels frightened,» Reininger said. «This is a very sticky situation right now between the deaf community and the police force.»
Training programs are in place for recruits and current officers, said police Capt. Bo Mathews.
«Recruits who go through the academy … receive four hours of training on dealing with the deaf and hard of hearing,» Mathews said. «Every year we have to go through mental health training, so we receive training, not just on hearing disabilities, but mentally challenged people as well.»
One of the sessions is titled «communication with the deaf and hard of hearing,» according to Mathews.
«Chief Citty is in contact right now with the Oklahoma Association (for the Deaf) and he plans to discuss with them further about the shooting that took place,» Mathews said. «We’re always receptive to ways to improve.»
One officer fired a Taser at Sanchez and the other a gun. Sgt. Chris Barnes, the one who shot the gun, is on administrative leave pending an investigation.
Mathews, a 30-year veteran of the Police Department with five years in the homicide division and four years in internal affairs, said he doesn’t recall a similar shooting by police in the city.
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Take a look at what goes into an Apple iPhone launch

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like for Apple when they start pre-orders for the iPhone? A new video gives us a behind the scenes look at what goes on the night of pre-orders up until it is shipped.
You never really think about it, but there is quite a process that occurs when it comes to announcing and then launching a product, while making sure everything goes smoothly. This is more so the case when you are dealing with a huge company like Apple who, year after year, is tasked with shipping out millions of its iPhone, all across the world.
BuzzFeed News was on hand with Apple during the launch of its most recent iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, getting a behind the scenes look with the firm’s Senior Vice President of Retail, Angela Ahrendts. The work starts the night pre-orders open, with numerous Apple employees, including Ahrendts, being holed up in a «war room» that will allow them to see the activity of everyone around the world who is ordering. There is interesting insight revealed in that over half of the order that will come in initially will be from Apple’s own Apple Store app on the iPhone.
After the initial night of pre-orders, Ahrendts then takes the time to actually visit multiple stores, getting teams excited about the upcoming releases. When it comes to shipments, Apple has so much volume of product coming through that UPS sets aside a special amount of time just to sort through their products. These packages will eventually arrive to homes, offices, and Apple Stores across the globe. Although this seems quite basic, it is interesting to see the process in action, as can be seen in the video above. The iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, Apple TV 4K, and Watch Series 3 are now available for purchase.

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Вибухи на складі боєприпасів під Маріуполем: Поліція відкрила справу про підпал

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Віце-прем’єр-міністр України Геннадій Зубко заявив, що навколо населеного пункту ліквідовано шість вогнищ спалаху
За фактом пожежі на полі поблизу населеного пункту Малоянісоль Нікольського району Донецької області, який викликав подальше загоряння і детонацію боєприпасів на складі однієї з військових частин Збройних сил України, відкрито кримінальне провадження за статтею Кримінального кодексу України «умисне знищення або пошкодження майна». Про це йдеться в повідомленні прес-служби Головного управління Національної поліції області.
Новини за темою: На складі боєприпасів під Маріуполем ще чутні вибухи, пожежу не локалізовано
«За даним фактом порушено кримінальне провадження за попередньою кваліфікацією за ст. 194 «умисне знищення або пошкодження майна» Кримінального кодексу України. Досудове розслідування проводиться під процесуальним керівництвом військової прокуратури області», – йдеться в повідомленні.
Віце-прем’єр-міністр України Геннадій Зубко заявив, що навколо населеного пункту ліквідовано шість вогнищ загоряння.
Новини за темою: За фактом пожежі в дитячому таборі в Одесі відкрито ще одне кримінальне провадження
«За останні 10 хвилин вибухів не зафіксовано. Населений пункт Новоянисоль Нікольського району Донецької області підключено до електропостачання, газ відключений, але в системі його вистачить до ранку. Створений штаб. Ліквідовано шість вогнищ навколо населеного пунктів», – написав він на своїй сторінці в Facebook.
Нагадаємо, пожежа на складі однієї з військових частин під Маріуполем спалахнув увечері в п’ятницю, 22 вересня. Повідомляється, що перед пожежею на складі прогриміли кілька вибухів.
В оперативному штабі ЗСУ «Південь» заявили, що пожежа на складі боєприпасів, за попередніми даними, міг виникнути через навмисного підпалу трави на сусідньому полі .

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