Fri 26 July 2024: An assisted dying group anticipates the first use of a portable suicide pod in Switzerland within months, offering a method of death without medical supervision. The space-age Sarco capsule, unveiled in 2019, induces death by hypoxia through nitrogen replacement and costs $20 per use. The Last Resort organization sees no legal […]
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Fri 26 July 2024: An asteroid as large as a stadium is moving towards Earth and will soon fly by our planet. Its massive size and the distance at which it will travel mean that it is considered potentially dangerous. The latest warning has been issued by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of its […]
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Fri 26 July 2024: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres drew attention Thursday to the growing danger of heat to the world. “Heat is estimated to kill almost half a million people a year, that’s about 30 times more than tropical cyclones. “We know what is driving it — fossil fuel-charged, human-induced climate change. And we know […]
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Thu 25 July 2024: Single people are increasingly turning online to find love, with more than 300 million people around the world trying their luck on dating apps. Some find their fairy tale. But for others, stories of online dating have very different endings. You may be ghosted after a seemingly blissful start, or strung along with […]
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Wed 24 July 2024: Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, promising to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It is used in contexts both mundane, like entertainment, and high stakes, like the workplace, hiring and health […]
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Wed 24 July 2024: Google has announced it will no longer eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, reversing its four-year effort to phase out the technology that enables businesses to track users online. This decision marks a significant shift from its initial plans to enhance user privacy through the Privacy Sandbox initiative. Impact on […]
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Tue 23 July 2024: Preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service indicates that July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. The global average surface air temperature reached 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit) on that day, the highest since records began in 1940. Unprecedented Temperature Surge “The difference in temperature […]
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Tue 23 July 2024: U.S.-based global electric carmaker Tesla will start using humanoid robots next year, CEO Elon Musk said Monday. “Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026,” he wrote on his personal X account. Tesla’s humanoid robot named Optimus was first unveiled […]
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Tue 23 July 2024: Nigerian artist and medical doctor Fola David is aiming to set a Guinness World Record for the largest drawing by an individual. David spent six days working on his 1,050 square meter artwork titled “Unity in Diversity” at a stadium in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. Celebrating Nigeria’s Cultural Heritage […]
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Mon 22 July 2024: The 80’s movie Terminator depicts a bleak world where a cyborg assassin is sent to the past to eliminate the mother of an unborn child who holds the key to humanity’s salvation. The frightening prospect of machines that can teach themselves and, in the worst-case scenario, machines that are more intelligent […]
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