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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Thu 20 November 2025: Israel’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that its 1,000th aircraft in an ongoing Western airlift since the start of the Gaza genocide had landed in the country, bringing total military cargo delivered since Oct, 8, 2023 to more than 120,000 tons. The announcement comes as the US continues to support Tel Aviv […]
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Thu 20 November 2025: UN agency said an estimated 318 million people will face acute food insecurity in 2026. The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that funding cuts will worsen a deepening hunger crisis around the world, warning that more than 300 million people will face acute food insecurity next year. “Food insecurity is […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Hundreds of career Israeli soldiers, including senior officers, have submitted requests for early retirement, deepening the military’s manpower crisis as the army struggles with shortages during its war on the Gaza Strip, local media said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, representatives from the army’s Personnel Administration told the […]
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