NewsFeed A painting produced by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da has sold for more than $1 million at a Sotheby’s auction. The portrait is of British mathematician Alan Turing who is seen as the father of modern computing. Published On 10 Nov 202410 Nov 2024 Check out our Latest…
Police describe escapees, who are not carrying disease, as ‘harmless and a little skittish’, posing ‘almost no danger to public’. More than 40 monkeys escaped from a research lab in a small town in the United States after an employee failed to properly shut an enclosure. The 43 rhesus macaque…
Legislation to prevent children accessing social media will be introduced by Australia’s parliament later this year and will take effect 12 months after ratification. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced plans to legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16 years of age, an initiative his…
The Iranian-made satellites, Kowsar and Hodhod, were successfully placed into orbit by a Russian Soyuz-2.1 spacecraft. A Russian rocket carrying a payload of satellites into orbit – including two from Iran – blasted off successfully, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said, in a move seen as reflecting the growing cooperation between…
A documentary aired on Spain’s national television this month has made headlines around the world for its revolutionary claim that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from the Iberian Peninsula, contrary to the widely accepted theory that he hailed from Genoa in Italy. A team of forensic experts led by…
Can we prevent zoonotic diseases from spreading to humans and protect our cities from major future outbreaks? Seventy-five percent of infectious diseases in humans come from animals. Environmental destruction and urbanisation are increasing the risk of zoonotic outbreaks. Veterinarians run disease surveillance programmes in poor African countries like Madagascar. They’re…
Forty-four countries have been declared malaria free, but there were still 249 million cases in 2022. Egypt has been certified as malaria free, with the World Health Organization (WHO) calling the achievement “truly historic” and the culmination of nearly a century of work to stamp out the disease. “Malaria is…
Atlantic salmon populations in England and Wales have plummeted to unprecedented lows, according to the Atlantic Salmon Stock Assessment for 2024, a report published this month by the United Kingdom Environment Agency and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science. According to the report by the two government agencies, a…
The technology helped recover $1.3bn in tax fraud in the 2024 fiscal year, says the Treasury. The United States Treasury Department is turning more to artificial intelligence (AI) to fight fraud, using the technology to thwart $4bn in improper payments in the last year. The agency released the estimate in…
The air-taxi market is predicted to grow exponentially by the end of the decade, but experts have warned that its future depends on a well-planned network of vertiports that would need to be integrated into existing infrastructure and supported by advanced air traffic management systems. By 2029, the air-taxi market…
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