Fri 03 October 2025: Cyclist and social media sensation Aurelien Fontenoy became the fastest athlete ever to climb to the second floor of France’s Eiffel Tower on an all-terrain bike, the monument’s operator said on Friday. Fontenoy on Thursday climbed 686 steps of the monument to reach the second-floor platform, the last accessible by stairs, in 12 […]
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Fri 03 October 2025: The Israeli cabinet is paying social media influencers up to $7,000 per post as part of a coordinated online propaganda campaign aimed at shaping public opinion. In a meeting on mobilizing pro-Israel media support, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alluded to a cohort of Israel’s influencers, claiming, “we have to fight […]
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Thu 02 October 2025: The U.S. labor union for actors and media professionals is opposing the introduction of “Tilly Norwood,” an AI-generated character seeking industry representation, arguing it endangers the jobs of human performers. Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), in a statement on Tuesday, said creativity “should remain human-centered” and […]
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Thu 02 October 2025: Researchers have helped uncover evidence of a mysterious giant asteroid impact, hidden not in a crater but in tiny pieces of glass found only in Australia. The discovery centers on rare tektites, which are natural glasses created when a space rock slams into Earth, melting surface material and hurling it hundreds […]
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Wed 01 October 2025: On Tuesday, Elon Musk revealed that his AI company, xAI, is working on “Grokipedia,” a new platform to compete with Wikipedia. Musk, who owns the social media platform X, said the new service would be a “massive improvement” over the long-established online encyclopedia, whose entries are created and edited by volunteers. […]
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Tue 30 September 2025: WhatsApp has announced new features aimed at enhancing the user experience. iOS users can now send Live Photos, and Android users can send Motion Photos. This functionality allows users to send photos that include sound and movement. The update also includes several key additions: Personalized Themes: Users can now create personalized chat themes and video call […]
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The Conjurer, c. 1502. Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch Tue 30 September 2025: What do Tiger Woods, Ben Stiller, Australian pensioners and dating app users have in common? Despite being from different walks of life, they have all fallen prey to various scams. In 2024, more than A$2.03 billion was lost to scams in Australia across 494,732 reported cases. Most of these scams were […]
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Mon 29 September 2025: South Korea has logged the highest relative poverty rate among its retired population among member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), data showed Monday. The relative poverty rate stood at 39.8% for those aged 65 and older in 2023, up 0.1 percentage point from the previous year, […]
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Mon 29 September 2025: A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet belonging to an ancient pharaoh, which disappeared from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC) earlier this month, was stolen and melted down, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. According to the ministry, a restoration specialist took the artifact and sold it to a silver […]
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Sun 28 September 2025: The study examined health records of over 559,000 participants from the Million Veteran Program in the US and the UK Biobank databases. Participants aged between 56 and 72 were followed for 4 to 12 years, during which more than 14,000 were diagnosed with dementia. Observational analyses showed that people consuming 40 or more […]
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