LONDON: Social media platforms like will have to "tame" their algorithms to filter out or downgrade harmful material to help protect Facebook, Instagram and TikTok children under proposed British measures published on Wednesday. The...
GENEVA: After more than 20 years of talks, the United Nations wants to finalise an international agreement this month on combating so-called biopiracy. Their solution is to bring more transparency to the patenting of the traditional...
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform,...
Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape planets across the galaxy. The star it orbits is baking and stripping away the planet’s...
Think about taking a walk: where you need to go, how fast you need to move to get there, and whether you need to bring something along to carry the results of your errand. Are you going on this walk with someone else? Does walking...
WASHINGTON: Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered essential for any possibility of harbouring life. Well, they finally seem to have located one. But this...
MOSCOW: Russia has started developing a nuclear power plant for its planned joint lunar station with China, the RIA news agency cited Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, as saying on Wednesday. In March,...
Are drone strikes legitimate, meaning on sound moral and legal footing? How people perceive the legitimacy of U.S. drone strikes – firing missiles from remotely piloted aircraft at terrorist and insurgent leaders – is central to...
Wild chimpanzees have been studied for more than 60 years, but they continue to delight and surprise observers, as we found during the summer of 2017 in Kibale National Park in Uganda. We were observing young chimpanzees’ play to...
Effective 24 April 2024, US Prime Minister Joe Biden approved a bill that might ban TikTok from operating in the United States. TikTok has 270 days to sell its stake to an approved buyer or risk complete removal from US app stores. While...
A new material structure could revolutionize energy storage by enabling the capacitors in electric vehicles or devices to store energy for much longer, scientists say.Researchers have developed capacitors from new "heterostructures"...
Apple (AAPL.O) on Tuesday introduced a new chip called the M4 that it said would outclass personal computers designed for artificial intelligence - but put the new chip in an iPad Pro model rather than a laptop. The move is unusual...
At the recent Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett issued a stark warning about the potential threat of artificial intelligence (AI) scams. The May 4 meeting, the first without his long-time...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING: A Chinese man who orchestrated the operation of 4,600 phones to artificially inflate live-stream viewer counts, amassing US$415,000 in under four months, has been sentenced to jail, South China Morning Post reported. His...
BOSTON: The various species of whales inhabiting Earth's oceans employ different types of vocalizations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking noises - called codas...
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve...
Already years late, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft continues to face delays as it prepares to launch NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams into space. The latest delay came as a problem with its ride to orbit, an Atlas V...
OpenAI is launching a tool that can detect images created by its text-to-image generator DALL-E 3, the Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) startup said on Tuesday amid rising worries about the iNFLuence of AI-generated content in this year's...
TAIYUAN: China's Long March-6C carrier rocket made its debut flight on Tuesday, placing four satellites in space. The rocket blasted off at 11:21 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's...
Scientists have created an enhanced, ultra-pure form of silicon that could one day be the foundation for highly reliable "silicon-spin qubits" in powerful quantum computers.While the bits in classical computers encode data as either...
The future of cellular data transfer could lie in "curving" light beams midair to deliver 6G wireless networks with blazing-fast speeds — bypassing the need for line of sight between transmitter and receivers. In a new study...
