Sat 14 June 2025: – ‘The next Ronaldo, Messi, Michael Jordan will be in esports. That goes without a doubt,’ says Orlando Carlo Calumeno, chairman of Türkiye’s first esports club – Industry forecasts estimate that this year, the global esports audience will surpass 640M, with 318M dedicated fans and 322M casual viewers ISTANBUL What if, […]
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Sat 14 June 2025: Russia conducted large-scale tests of new laser systems designed to counter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov attending the trials, officials said on Friday. The tests, which were conducted at a specialized military range, were designed to assess the lasers’ accuracy, range, reaction time, and performance […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: You may have come across those “what I eat in a day” videos on social media, where people – usually conventionally attractive influencers wearing activewear – list everything they consumed that day. They might seem like harmless fun but in fact they can reinforce dangerous ideas about food, weight and body […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is assembling a top team of AI experts to develop “superintelligence,” a type of AI that outperforms human capabilities. Dissatisfied with Meta’s AI progress, Zuckerberg had invited AI researchers to his Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto homes as part of efforts to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), […]
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Tue 10 June 2025: Italy severs links with Paragon spyware after allegations of targeting critics and migrant rescuers spark outrage. Italy has terminated its contracts with Israeli spyware company Paragon, after revelations that the surveillance technology was used against critics of the government – including journalists and migrant rescue workers – prompted political uproar and calls for […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: From dangerous diet tips to disinformation, cyberbullying to hate speech, the glut of online content harmful to children grows every day. But several European countries have had enough and agree the EU should do more to prevent minors’ access to social media. The European Union already has some of the world’s […]
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AI tools reveal how images have been manipulated. William Theisen et al. Sun 08 June 2025: Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don’t trust each other and violence seems likely. Now, imagine a flood of political images, hateful memes and mocking videos from domestic and foreign sources taking over social media. What […]
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Fri 06 June 2025: Developed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the pen features magnetic ink and a special tip that converts hand movements during writing into electrical signals. These signals are then analyzed by AI to detect markers associated with Parkinson‘s. More than 10 million people worldwide are thought to be living […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: Elon Musk‘s brain-implant company Neuralink has raised $650 million from investors in a new funding round, the company announced on Monday. Neuralink’s implant, currently used by five patients with severe paralysis, allows users to control digital and physical devices with their thoughts. The latest funding round follows a $280 million raise in August […]
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Wed 04 June 2025: Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Far from being benign tools, smartphones parasitise our […]
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