AI WON’T TAKE YOUR JOB – BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN YOU SHOULD IGNORE IT

Sun 29 December 2024: Two influential tech CEOs have sparked a debate about AI’s effect on jobs. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski announced the buy-now, pay-later firm stopped hiring a year ago, claiming that AI can do most of the jobs that humans do. And the chief executive of AI firm Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has argued that workers are […]

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NASA PROBE MAKES HISTORY WITH CLOSEST-EVER APPROACH TO THE SUN

Sat 28 December 2024: Parker Solar Probe is operating normally after passing just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface, NASA says. The United States space agency has confirmed its Parker Solar Probe is safe after making the closest approach to the Sun ever recorded by a human-made object. The probe passed just 6.1 million kilometres (3.8 […]

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FRANCE TIGHTENS SOCIAL MEDIA RULES WITH CHILDREN UNDER 15 REQUIRING PARENTAL CONSENT TO CREATE ACCOUNTS

Sat 28 December 2024: One in four families in France experiences cyberbullying ‘Our first reflex should be to remember that a child should never be left alone with a digital screen,’ says general director of L’Enfant Bleu Association PARIS France has made it mandatory since 2023 for children under 15 to obtain parental consent to […]

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RUSSIA STARTS USING BITCOIN FOR INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS

Fri 27 December 2024: Russian companies have started using Bitcoin and other digital assets in international payments, the Russian finance minister said on Wednesday. In a statement to the Russian state channel Rossiya-24, Anton Siluanov said that Bitcoins mined in Russia can be used in the experimental process for international payments, and such payments have […]

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JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE UNVEILS SECRETS OF EARLY UNIVERSE OVER LAST 3 YEARS

Fri 27 December 2024: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled new discoveries about the early universe since its launch on Dec. 25, 2021, offering groundbreaking insights into the cosmos. Compiled from open sources by Anadolu, JWST’s findings over the past three years span studies on the Solar System, the Milky Way, the first […]

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NEW AI SOFTWARE DOUBLES ACCURACY IN DETERMINING STROKE TIMING

Thu 26 December 2024: Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence software that can determine the timing of a stroke and whether treatment is feasible with twice the accuracy compared to conventional methods. Researchers from Imperial College London in the UK, the Technical University of Munich in Germany and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland […]

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THE ‘CHOKING GAME’ AND OTHER CHALLENGES AMPLIFIED BY SOCIAL MEDIA CAN COME WITH DEADLY CONSEQUENCES

Tue 24 December 2024: The “choking game” has potentially deadly consequences, as players are challenged to temporarily strangle themselves by restricting oxygen to the brain. It sounds terrifying, but rough estimates suggest that about 10% of U.S. teenagers may have played this type of game at least once. There’s more, unfortunately: The Skullbreaker Challenge, the Tide Pod Challenge and Car […]

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JAPAN BEGINS RESEARCH INTO MAKING MOON HABITATION POSSIBLE

Mon 23 December 2024: Japan is taking steps toward making life on the Moon a reality, with Kyoto University and construction giant Kajima Corp teaming up to develop a lunar habitat that generates artificial gravity, local media reported Sunday. The “Neo Lunar Glass” project aims to create a paraboloid structure capable of mimicking Earth-like conditions […]

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