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An Iranian rial banknote
World
Friday, 7/24, 10:53 AM

Iran Calls Trump Threat to Seize Its Frozen Assets 'Incendiary'

  • As the US-Iran war entered a 13th night of strikes, President Trump said he would use frozen Iranian assets held by the United States to pay for damage in the Gulf.
  • Iran's foreign minister called it an 'incendiary precedent,' warning that normalizing the seizure of state assets would make no country's money safe.
A surveillance camera
Technology 34 d

Can what you wear hide you from facial recognition?

  • As cameras that can identify faces spread through streets and shops, a small movement of designers and privacy activists is making 'adversarial' clothing meant to confuse the machines.
  • It is a striking idea, but experts caution it is far from a cloak of invisibility.

In brief

In brief

The facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Culture 50 d

Value of looted antiquities seized from the Met passes $95 million

  • A fresh round of seizures has pushed the total value of looted antiquities recovered from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art past $95 million, a reckoning for one of the world's great museums with the murky origins of treasures it acquired in a less scrupulous era.

In brief

In brief