DIGITAL CLUTTER FUELS CARBON EMISSIONS, EXPERTS WARN

Sun 25 May 2025: Our digital clouds, overflowing with images and files, are unknowingly causing increasing harm to the environment. According to experts, individual users’ data habits carry not only financial costs but also serious environmental consequences. The dreaded warning “Your cloud storage is almost full” has become a common nightmare for many. What users […]

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VIETNAM ORDERS BAN ON POPULAR MESSAGING APP TELEGRAM

Sun 25 May 2025: Science and technology ministry accuses messaging app of not cooperating in combating alleged crimes committed by users in Vietnam. Vietnam has ordered the country’s telecommunication service providers to block the messaging app Telegram for not cooperating in combating alleged crimes committed by users of the platform, in a move that Telegram said […]

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AI-DRIVEN MOTION CAPTURE IS TRANSFORMING SPORTS AND EXERCISE SCIENCE

Image generated by AI/ChatGPT/Habib Noorbhai Fri 23 May 2025: In sport, the margin between success and failure is often measured in milliseconds. It could be a cricketer adjusting their foot positioning, a runner refining their sprint start or a footballer perfecting their passing. This is where motion capture comes in – among the many approaches being […]

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WHAT IS THE GOLDEN DOME DEFENCE SYSTEM TRUMP ANNOUNCED?

Fri 23 May 2025: The $175bn ambitious space proposal aims to counter aerial threats but Washington’s adversary China says it would prompt an arms race. United States President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has selected a $175bn design for the multilayered Golden Dome missile defence programme aimed at countering aerial threats “even if they are […]

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BITCOIN EXCEEDS $110,000 THRESHOLD FOR 1ST TIME AMID REGULATORY OPTIMISM

Fri 23 May 2025: The price of Bitcoin on Thursday surpassed the $110,000 threshold for the first time in history after the recent advancement of a key stablecoin bill in the US Senate. The value of the global cryptocurrency market, including Bitcoin, reached $2.2 trillion Thursday, according to data from Coinmarketcap. The price of Bitcoin, […]

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1 IN 4 JOBS GLOBALLY THREATENED BY GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Wed 21 May 2025: A report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland’s National Research Institute (NASK) revealed Tuesday that 25% of jobs worldwide are potentially exposed to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), with clerical and highly digital occupations facing the highest vulnerability. The report, “Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure,” presented what […]

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BRAIN STUDY CHALLENGES LONG-HELD BELIEFS ABOUT WHERE CONSCIOUSNESS RESIDES

Tue 20 May 2025: WASHINGTON: The core of human existence is consciousness, which includes the senses of sight, hearing, dreaming, imagining, feeling pain or pleasure, fear, love, and more. But exactly where in the brain is this located? Scientists and medical professionals have long been perplexed by that question. A recent study is providing new […]

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TELEGRAM FOUNDER SAYS FRANCE ASKED HIM TO BAN CONSERVATIVE ROMANIAN VOICES

Mon 19 May 2025: The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, said he refused a request by the head of France’s intelligence service to ban Romanian conservative voices ahead of the country’s elections. Romania’s centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, won the presidential election on Sunday in a shock upset over a hard-right, nationalist rival who had pledged to […]

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