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Election Observer group, Yiaga Africa, says it will deploy an artificial intelligence-assisted system alongside its election observation methodology to independently scrutinise results from Saturday’s Osun State governorship election and detect possible discrepancies between votes cast at polling units and results uploaded to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) results portal. The organisation’s Executive Director, Samson Itodo, disclosed this in Osogbo on Friday ahead of the poll. Mr Itodo explained that Yiaga would combine its Process and Results Verification for Transparency (PRVT) methodology with its Election Result Analysis Dashboard (ERAD 2.0) to assess both the electoral process and the integrity of…

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would “soon” declare the Strait of Hormuz waterway part of US territory after defeating Iran. “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated — pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” he said with a chuckle during a political rally at a police academy in New York state. “It’s true,” he added. Trump, together with Israel, launched a war against Iran on February 28 with the stated aims of ending the country’s controversial nuclear program and sparking a popular uprising. However, Iran struck…

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new “Media watermark” setting in Gemini and Google’s AI video generator, Flow.When toggled off, Google will remove the “sparkle” watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company’s Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata embedded in the background, according to Josh Woodward, the vice president of Google Labs, Gemini, and AI Studio. That means…

Hours after Bethenny Frankel officially opened her Supermodel Café in the Hamptons, the establishment was served a stop-work warning. “Today’s Supermodel Café launch drew an extraordinary turnout, and we are incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support from the community,” a rep for Frankel, 55, told Us in a statement on Thursday, August 13. “The café received a yellow notice labeled ‘Warning Stop Work Order’ following concerns surrounding the unusually high volume of launch-day attendees.” The spokesperson continued, “The team is working cooperatively with local officials and taking the appropriate steps to address those concerns. The notice does not require the…

The police, army and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have mounted heavy security surveillance across Osun State ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. PREMIUM TIMES reporters monitoring the election from different parts of the state observed armed security personnel, particularly police and military officers, patrolling strategic streets in Osogbo, Ikirun, Okuku, Ila, Ilesa, Ede, Iwo, Gbongan, Ejigbo and Ile-Ife, with some blaring sirens. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office along the Osogbo-Gbongan Road in the Abere area of Osogbo is being guarded by armed military and police personnel. Electoral offices across the areas visited were also heavily…

Ibrahim Shawai, the media aide to the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Gombe State, Dr Jamil Gwamna, has said the 2027 governorship election in the state would be decided at polling units and not on social media platforms. Shawai stated this in a statement issued on Friday while highlighting what he described as Gwamna’s growing engagement with communities across the state ahead of the 2027 governorship election. According to him, although social media has become an important tool for political communication, online popularity doesn’t necessarily translate into electoral support. He said, “There is a fundamental truth about…

Strings of code in Samsung’s Galaxy Wearable app hint at an upcoming pair of over-ear headphones that could compete with the AirPods Max, SamMobile reports. Samsung’s reportedly referring to the headphones as the “Galaxy H1,” and SamMobile says they could launch sometime in 2027. That would make these the company’s first pair of over-ear headphones since the Level On in 2015, which was released well before Samsung acquired Harman and a number of other audio brands.Connection status icons in the app standard show the design of over-ear, wireless Bluetooth headphones, but not necessarily exactly what these will look like in…

JPMorgan’s reported position in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund increased by about 25% in the second quarter, while its Ether ETF position more than quadrupled, according to its latest securities filing. The Form 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, submitted Wednesday, covers holdings as of June 30 and includes 17 other investment managers across JPMorgan. That makes it difficult to determine whether individual positions reflect a directional market view, Jonatan Randin, senior market analyst at PrimeXBT, told Cointelegraph.“It gives you some idea of what they are doing but not their opinion about the future direction of a specific…

Double Lives of Suburban Wives star Brianna Coppage is opening up about the difficult consequences she faced for exploring adult content. In Us’ exclusive sneak peek of the Sunday, August 16, episode of TLC’s new hit reality show, Brianna, 31, looks back on the moment she lost her teaching job after she was discovered to be on OnlyFans. “When I was put on leave at the school, I did call my mom,” Brianna recalls in the preview. “She said, ‘Well, it’s not going to be on the 5:00 news, is it?’ I said, ‘No, I don’t know why it would…

The police in Anambra State say they have arrested a suspected female drug dealer and six other crime suspects when operatives separately raided criminal hideouts in the state. Police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga stated on Friday that the operations were conducted in accordance with the directives of the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, and the Command’s operational strategy against violent crimes, cultism, and illicit drug activities. Ikenga, a superintendent of police, said one of the suspects, Ifeanyi Ogbuagbo, was believed to be a member of an unnamed separatist group in the state. “Acting on credible intelligence in the evening of 13…