A female bonobo at Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lukas Bierhoff, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project Bonobos combine their calls in a complex way that forms distinct phrases, a sign that this type of syntax is more evolutionarily ancient than previously thought. Human language, often described as the hallmark of our…
In the late 1940s, as the industrial capacity of Europe and Japan lay in tatters, America accounted for over half of global manufacturing output, with much of the world heavily reliant on its wares. Last year it accounted for little over a tenth, and imported $1.2trn more in merchandise than it exported—to the displeasure of…
Adrienne Murray Technology Reporter Reporting fromLongyearbyen, Norway Getty Images Norway’s Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost town High above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Frozen, mountainous, and remote, it’s home to hundreds of polar bears and a couple of sparse settlements. One of those is…
Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill showed up with little fanfare at a track meet in California on Friday and won the 100-meter dash with an impressive time of 10.15 seconds. That’s an incredibly fast race considering that Hill is 31 years old and hadn’t run track competitively since college, and shows that if Hill had…
Saturn now has a total of 274 moons NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A further 128 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, bringing the planet’s total to 274 – more than there are around all the other planets in our solar system combined. But as advances in telescope technology allow us to spot progressively smaller planetary objects,…
In the weeks after the re-election of Donald Trump, the bosses of America’s tech champions worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the returning president, congratulating him publicly and dutifully turning up to his inauguration. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, gushed that it was nice to have an administration that was “proud” of America’s tech…
Brooke PryorJun 13, 2025, 09:06 PM ET Close Brooke Pryor is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN who has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2019. She previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and the University of Oklahoma for The Oklahoman. OAKMONT, Pa. — There won’t be a back-to-back U.S….
I spotted another interesting file that uses, once again, steganography. It seems to be a trend (see one of my previous diaries[1]). The file is an malicious Excel sheet called blcopy.xls. Office documents are rare these days because Microsoft improved the rules to allow automatic macro execution[2]. But it does not mean that Office documents…
Gigabyte’s AI TOP 500 TRX50 is a desktop built for AI developers working on massive LLMs Older Threadripper CPU included but motherboard supports newer upgrades GeForce RTX 5090 GPU paired with software for model tuning Gigabyte has quietly launched the AI TOP 500 TRX50, a high-end system aimed at developers working on AI models and…
Honeybees are vulnerable to seasonal die-offs Nicholas Klein/Alamy Honeybees in the US may have just experienced their most severe die-off on record, and we don’t know exactly why. “As of right now, it does look like this is going to be the largest colony loss that we’ve experienced in at least the last 25 years…
