Sun 23 November 2025: Deaths and injuries are at their highest levels since records began in 2006, and up by 42 percent on the 2020 total, the UK charity says. Nearly 12,000 children were killed or injured in conflicts worldwide last year, of which 70 percent were a result of explosives, the United Kingdom-based charity […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: Recent developments in United States tech and media have prompted concerns about media consolidation and its impact on free speech. The US government is pushing ByteDance to reduce its control over TikTok, with Oracle proposed to oversee the platform’s algorithm for national security reasons. Meanwhile, Skydance Media’s $8bn merger with Paramount […]
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Sat 22 November 2025: – Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are no longer “a hedge against market risk” and “now more closely track the rest of the market,” says UC Irvine’s Bill Maurer – ‘There have been six episodes where Bitcoin dropped by more than 60% – so fasten your seatbelt. However, one commonality is that […]
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Sat 22 November 2025: ‘Soon, you’ll no longer be able to use Facebook’, Meta said in messages it sent to young people ahead of the social media ban5 Meta will prevent Australians younger than 16 from accessing Facebook and Instagram from December 4, as Canberra prepares to enforce a sweeping new social media law that […]
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Fri 21 November 2025: Artificial intelligence is fast becoming part of the furniture. A decade after IBM’s Watson triumphed on “Jeopardy!,” generative AI models are in kitchens and home offices. People often talk about AI in science fiction terms, yet the most consequential change in 2025 may be its banal ubiquity. To appreciate how ordinary AI use […]
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Fri 21 November 2025: Chinese scientists have found signs of iron rust caused by meteorite impacts in rock and soil samples collected by the “Chang’e 6” rover from the Moon’s far side. Researchers from Shandong University, the Institute of Geochemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yunnan University reported in Science Advances that the rover discovered microscopic hematite (α-Fe2O3) […]
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Fri 21 November 2025: Billionaires in the world’s leading economies made $2.2 trillion last year, which would have been enough to lift all the world’s poor out of poverty, global campaign group Oxfam announced Thursday. The British-based charity urged this weekend’s summit of the powerful G20 group of major economies to back initiatives by the […]
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Thu 20 November 2025: With the latest shift by President Donald Trump on releasing the Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of Justice – he’s now for it after being against it after being for it – the MAGA base may finally get to view the documents it’s long wanted to see. On the afternoon of Nov. 18, […]
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Thu 20 November 2025: US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitoring body warned in an AFP interview. Peter Thorne is the deputy chair of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), a little-known but crucial UN-backed […]
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Thu 20 November 2025: Belgium is set to ban all e-cigarette flavors except tobacco in a bid to stop youth nicotine addiction, Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke announced on Wednesday. The move follows fresh recommendations from the country’s Superior Health Council. Vandenbroucke said flavored e-cigarettes are deliberately designed to appeal to children and mask the potential […]
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