A 2016 tremor in New Zealand destroyed roads and set off slow slip movements deep in the two crustal plates off the country’s east coast. Credit: Marty Melville Getty Images Wed 22 March 2023: Hundreds of earthquakes have rattled parts of New Zealand for the past five days, with experts warning the shaking could continue for weeks. On Wednesday, the country’s […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: As it continues on its gradual path to catch up with the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, Google has invited users in the UK and the US to test out its AI chatbot, Bard. Bard, ChatGPT, and other similar artificial intelligence apps churn out essays, poems, or computer code on command and have taken […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: Twitter is reportedly testing a new verification process for its Blue subscribers that will require the submission of a government ID. The method for submitting a photo of the users’ ID, both front and back, combined with a selfie photo, to authenticate their Twitter account is revealed through code-level insights uncovered […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari has revealed that it received a ransom demand related to customer contact details that may have been compromised in a ransomware attack. In a statement released on March 20, Ferrari said that it immediately began an investigation in collaboration with a leading cybersecurity firm upon […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Even if planet-warming emissions rapidly decline, the record-breaking temperatures of the past eight years will rank among the coolest in the next three to four decades as global temperatures rise, according to a UN report released on Monday. “The warmest years we have experienced to date will be among the coolest […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: After the Kremlin said Putin and Xi had held a “thorough” exchange of views during their first day of talks and discussed China’s peace plan for Ukraine, the two leaders are expected to continue further discussions on Tuesday. But the meeting between Putin and Xi, who have referred to each other […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, for formal talks at the Kremlin on Tuesday, the second day of his three-day trip. It’s Xi’s first visit, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine — and Beijing has billed the trip as a peace mission, but has not yet indicated, […]
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Six Muslim men were killed when a gunman opened fire shortly after evening prayers at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre on 29 January 2017 (Jillian Kestler-D’Amours/MEE) Tue 21 March 2023: It was the deadliest attack on a house of worship in Canada’s history. Six people lost their lives when a gunman opened fire on a […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Economists caution against comparisons to 2007-08 bank failures despite persistent market turmoil. Following a series of shocking bank failures in Europe and the US over the past two weeks, there has been turmoil in the global banking industry. After Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed on March 10, concerns about the stability […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Do you learn from mistakes? This is especially true when it comes to learning from other people’s mistakes. Your own, on the other hand, are often ignored. But why? You learn less from your own mistakes than from your own successes. Only when it comes to other people’s victories and defeats you do […]
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