Mon 07 April 2025: The operator of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has challenged a New Delhi court’s order to remove statements from its page that the court said defamed a domestic news website, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday. Last week’s Delhi High Court ruling came after Indian news agency ANI sued the […]
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Mon 07 April 2025: Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has introduced a new method for enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), reportedly surpassing current approaches. DeepSeek developed a dual technique that combines generative reward modeling (GRM) and self-principled critique tuning in collaboration with researchers from Tsinghua University, the South China Morning […]
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Sun 06 April 2025: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he will direct the government to suspend all tariffs on US imports. Mnangagwa posted on X on Saturday that this measure aims to boost American imports in Zimbabwe and promote Zimbabwean exports to the US. “This action underscores our commitment to a framework of equitable trade […]
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Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty. Sun 06 April 2025: When the accused are Hindu and the place of worship attacked Muslim, bombs suddenly become ‘gelatin sticks’ and no properties linked to the accused are demolished. What would happen if there was a terror attack at a place of worship in India? It would be all over our […]
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At Camps Bay, Cape Town, wastewater is pumped out to sea. Steve Kretzmann/GroundUp Sun 06 April 2025: As the planet gets hotter and freshwater sources dry up, cities and towns will not be able to continue the global norm of using millions of litres of clean, drinkable water to flush toilets. South Africa’s Water Research Commission […]
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Sun 06 April 2025: Israel has detained two British members of parliament and refused entry to the officials who were visiting as part of a parliamentary delegation, British Foreign Minister David Lammy said in a statement late on Saturday, Reuters reports. Sky News, citing a statement from the Israeli immigration ministry, says that the detained parliamentarians […]
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Sun 06 April 2025: A strong number of Canadians and Mexicans now view their former US ally as an “enemy country” and favor matching tariff for tariff, a new Leger poll released Saturday found. But The Three Amigos Survey, as the report is called, found that respondents blamed US President Donald Trump, not Americans, for […]
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Sat 05 April 2025: From self-service checkouts to public streets to stadiums – surveillance technology is everywhere. This pervasive monitoring is often justified in the name of safety and security. But our recent study, published in Neuroscience of Consciousness, reveals a disturbing side effect. Surveillance isn’t just changing our behaviour – it’s altering how our brains process information, […]
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Sat 05 April 2025: Turkish scientists are set to explore the depths of oceans and seas for clues about life in space through the METU Institute of Marine Sciences’ “DeepTrace” project, Anadolu Agency reports. The team will conduct research at depths of up to 2,600 meters in the Black Sea, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Mustafa Yucel, deputy […]
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Sat 05 April 2025: At the break of dawn, Ronin’s handler gently sets him down at the edge of a suspected minefield. A lightweight harness, attached to a thin rope, wraps snugly around the rat’s small torso, guiding him methodically across the terrain. With an eager twitch of his whiskers and the promise of a slice […]
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