The rise of AI could mean a whole new landscape for 2024’s US presidential election: watch out for deep fakes and hyper-persuasive chatbots. We unpack North Korea’s secret pandemic [...]
A deal in principle and now comes the really hard part. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy need to cobble together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to get their [...]
Russian anti-Kremlin fighters take the war back home with an incursion into Russia’s Belgorod region. We hear from one of their commanders who says it’s just the start. What’s next in [...]
What's next for interest rates? Our U.S. Fed interpreter analyses the latest minutes - and if there's a difference between a hold, skip or pause. In Turkey, more rates decisions as President [...]
Black Real Madrid player Vinicius Jr has spoken out against racist incidents in Spain. We take a deep dive into how the Brazilian’s stand is shaking up Spanish soccer – and making [...]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is widely expected to throw his hat in the ring for the presidency this week. Which part of the conservative spectrum should he woo? Plus, a Reuters [...]
Gridlock over the U.S. debt ceiling as Biden and McCarthy are set to meet - can a deal get done? Russia says Bakhmut captured after the bloodiest battle of the 15-month war - now what? Plus, [...]
This episode is a special companion to the five-part investigation into how humanity's hunger for resources is driving worldwide destruction of areas rich with bats, carriers of tens of [...]
President Joe Biden wants to send a tough message to Beijing from this year’s G7 summit. But China’s trade ties with other G7 countries are complicating Biden’s goal. Japan’s hopes [...]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Saudi Arabia to attend the Arab League summit. His appearance seals his return to the regional fold after years of civil war. But Arab leaders are [...]
Rare strike on Russian capital unnerves Muscovites who had been told conflict would not threaten themRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesMoscow has been targeted with a large-scale drone attack [...]
Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear warA group of leading technology experts from across the world have warned that artificial intelligence [...]
Sirens briefly sound across Seoul and in Japan after launch of device most likely linked to regime’s plans to boost military surveillanceNorth Korea has launched what was described as a space [...]
Blood-testing firm’s fraud saga sees its end as 39-year-old tech founder reports to federal prison camp‘People wanted to believe the fairytale’: the downfall of Elizabeth HolmesThe Theranos [...]
House speaker says he isn’t worried the agreement will fail as prominent rightwinger Chip Roy calls it a ‘turd sandwich’The Republican speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy, insisted on [...]
Manahel al-Otaibi, 29, was held in November on charges including using a hashtag calling for end to male guardianshipA young women’s rights activist in Saudi Arabia has been arrested and imprisoned [...]
The incident is the latest in a season of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing this yearA Chinese fighter pilot performed an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” near an American [...]
Former Senate staffer who made claim in 2020 appears on Russian media alongside convicted Russian agent in US Maria ButinaTara Reade, a former Senate staffer who in 2020 accused Joe Biden of sexual [...]
Court reverses earlier decision by Governor Gavin Newsom not to free woman convicted of killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBiancaA California appeals court said on Tuesday that Leslie Van Houten, who [...]
Governor makes remark to Fox News and predicts two White House terms should he defeat Trump for Republican nominationPredicting two terms in the White House should he defeat Donald Trump for the [...]
COVID inquiry: Government stands by refusal to hand over Boris Johnson's 'private' WhatsApp messages following criticism Sky NewsBoris Johnson's WhatsApp messages handover to Covid inquiry [...]
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes begins 11-year prison sentence BBCElizabeth Holmes has gone to prison. Will she ever pay victims too? BBCElizabeth Holmes reports to prison in [...]
Kathleen Stock: Protests at Oxford Union as talk goes ahead BBCProtestor glues themselves to floor during trans debate at the Oxford Union The TelegraphTrans activists disrupt [...]
Who was behind Moscow drone attacks and what do they mean for Ukraine war? The GuardianUkraine war: Russia accuses Kyiv of drone strikes on Moscow Channel 4 NewsUkraine war: [...]
North Korea launches ‘space vehicle’ amid military spy satellite plans The GuardianNorth Korea launches rocket after satellite warning BBCSeoul wakes to erroneous 'wartime [...]
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Financial Times‘Time is now’ for Sweden to join NATO, Blinken says Al Jazeera EnglishTurkey wants action from NATO [...]
Man arrested after woman found dead in River Severn in central Wales The GuardianRiver Severn: Llanidloes body prompts murder investigation BBCMurder investigation launched [...]
Murder investigation over death of cricketer Thomas Barton Southern Daily EchoRyde assault: Two men charged with murder of 'caring' father BBCMurder investigation over death of [...]
Woman and child badly hurt in Worcestershire house fire BBCChild airlifted to hospital and woman fights for life after house fire Birmingham LiveHouse fire leaves two people [...]
TikTok prankster Mizzy set free on bail ahead of July trial Evening StandardTikTok star Mizzy bailed over alleged social media order breach BBCTikTok prankster Mizzy released on [...]
The Hebrew-language edition of Abigail Shrier's book, decried as 'transphobic propaganda,' has been slammed for importing a U.S. conservative culture war.
The post ‘Murderous bigotry’: [...]
The Israeli right has co-opted Rabin's slogan 'without a High Court and B'Tselem' to undermine those institutions — but for a different purpose.
The post With NGO assault, Israel drops its fig leaf [...]
From terror threat to peace hopes, Israeli views of the Palestinian flag have undergone many shifts over the decades. Now, attempts to outlaw it are back.
The post The long history of Israel’s [...]
Archeologists criticized the participation of two Ariel University scholars at the international event, citing illegality of excavations on occupied territory.
The post After backlash, conference [...]
By failing to push back on problematic definitions of antisemitism, the White House is missing a golden opportunity in the fight against hate.
The post Biden’s antisemitism strategy gets a lot [...]
Twenty-seven Palestinian families made the devastating decision to leave their homes in 'Ein Samia, hounded out by Israeli settlers and army pressure.
The post Under settler terror, Palestinians tear [...]
Left-wing high schoolers describe how the anti-government protests have provided a window for the mainstreaming of views long deemed illegitimate.
The post These Israeli youth are burning their [...]
An accord between Riyadh and Tehran could stymie regional polarization and normalization with Israel. Will Palestinian leaders take advantage of it?
The post What will Saudi-Iran rapprochement mean [...]
The collapse of any logic in Israel's Gaza policy has become accepted without a shred of discomfort, rendering the yearly bloodletting an act of fate.
The post A ritual of violence that Israelis have [...]
Cancelling an event with Ben Gvir does not make up for a history of European interests that give Israel the green light to carry on with its illegal policies.
The post Avoiding an Israeli fascist [...]
Anyons, anyone?
Scientists have created strange new particle-like objects called non-abelian anyons. These long-sought quasiparticles can be “braided,” meaning that they can be moved [...]
While volunteering at the University of New Mexico’s Children’s Hospital in Albuquerque, Quinton Smith quickly realized that he could never be a physician.
Then an undergrad at the [...]
If you ever come across a Cooper’s black orchid in the wild, you probably would mistake it for a stick — or perhaps an odd potato if you dig a little underneath it. Unlike many others of its [...]
It’s hard to know how busy this year’s Atlantic hurricane season will be, thanks to a rarely observed combination of ocean and climate conditions.
The Atlantic Ocean is in an active storm [...]
Planetary scientists now know how thick the Martian crust is, thanks to the strongest Marsquake ever observed.
On average, the crust is between 42 and 56 kilometers thick, researchers report [...]
Meet the house that diapers built.
Researchers have designed and erected a house that has shredded, disposable diapers mixed into its concrete and mortar. A single-story home of about 36 [...]
Giardia has plagued people for a long time.
The parasite can bring about dysentery — a miserable (and occasionally deadly) mixture of diarrhea, cramps and fever. Scientists have now [...]
Microbial stress can be a boon for young trees.
Saplings grown in soil microbes that have experienced drought, cold or heat are more likely to survive when faced with those same conditions, [...]
More than 5,000 animal species previously unknown to science live in a pristine part of the deep sea.
Their home — called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — sits in the central and eastern [...]
Beer breweries’ trash may have been Danish painters’ treasure.
The base layer of several paintings created in Denmark in the mid-1800s contains remnants of cereal grains and brewer’s [...]
Uber driver Adams Ikemu Adakole diligently paid the daily installments on his car loan from Nigerian vehicle-financing firm Moove for three months. But in February 2023, his work came to...
Tosin Eniolorunda is the founder and CEO of Moniepoint, Africa’s second-fastest-growing company in 2023. He spoke to Rest of World about the impact of Nigeria’s recent cash crisis on the...
It was noon, and the Delhi summer sun was beating down on Rajeev. The food delivery driver was drenched in sweat and visibly exhausted, but he couldn’t afford to take...
Today, as China’s tech companies expand their influence beyond the country’s borders, it’s hard to tell where Chinese internet begins and ends. TikTok, owned by Chinese tech juggernaut [...]
In September 2022, Zwigato, a Hindi-language film about the lives of food delivery workers in India, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival amid much fanfare. The movie was released...
Late last year, Jordanian car dealer Waleed Alheet ordered six BYD electric cars from a supplier in Jinan, China. He sold all six cars 10 days after they went on...
Huy Dao, an entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City, thought he had nailed the perfect TikTok: informative, playful, and ultimately harmless. Instead, he wound up fueling TikTok’s escalating clash with...
After years away from the limelight, one of Latin America’s most beloved crooners, Luis Miguel, will take the stage in the coming months, touring venues across the region and the...
Kenya’s government is set to roll out a controversial plan that it says will help tackle the problem of counterfeit mobile devices. But digital rights activists and telecommunications experts [...]
In 2021, Nepal’s electric vehicle sector had its big moment when a homegrown startup introduced an EV bike that had been designed, developed, and produced in the country. The P1...
Sunburns are terrible. The skin blisters and peels. Even a light brush from putting on clothes or tucking into bed sheets is agony.
Now imagine having those blisters at just six months old. But the [...]
After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the US have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe.
Unlike light [...]
COMPUTING
IBM Wants to Build a 100,000-Qubit Quantum Computer
Michael Brooks | MIT Technology Review
“Late last year, IBM took the record for the largest quantum computing system with a [...]
The ability of machines to read our minds has been steadily progressing in recent years. Now, researchers have used AI video generation technology to give us a window into the mind’s eye.
The main [...]
From Kenya to Mexico, Texas, and beyond, 3D-printed houses are starting to go up all over the world. Besides providing a durable and aesthetically pleasing structure, one of the biggest goals of [...]
Virtual reality experiences depend on goggles and headphones, transporting wearers to new places using sight and sound. Be it a peaceful meadow where the only sounds are birds chirping and the breeze [...]
There has been shock around the world at the rapid rate of progress with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence created with what’s known as large language models (LLMs). These systems can [...]
Robots are nothing new. They build our cars, vacuum our floors, prepare our e-commerce orders, and even help carry out surgeries. But now the sci-fi vision of a general-purpose humanoid robot seems [...]
To those who study existential risk, the list of threats is lengthening. If nuclear war doesn’t end us, a designer virus or AI might. The good news? No giant asteroids will strike this [...]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ChatGPT Is Already Obsolete
Matteo Wong | The Atlantic
“Language-only models such as the original ChatGPT are now giving way to machines that can also process images, [...]
