Fuel and fury: energy becomes a Middle East battlefield
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The critical computer systems still relying on decades-old code
Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed the computer scientists of the mid-1960s with its ability to engage in seemingly meaningful conversation. But, for decades, ELIZA was considered lost because its creator – Joseph Weizenbaum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology –…
Striking artworks reveal the beauty of mushrooms and other soil life
Fly Agaric Marshmallow Laser Feast Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom complexity of connections, a multitude of symbiotic partnerships between plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria….
Hoping For ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’? Here’s Some Good News
Toothless and Hiccup (Mason Thames) in “How To Train Your Dragon.” DreamWorks/Universal Pictures The live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon, starring Mason Thames, Nico Parker and Gerard Butler, had a monster opening at weekend box office, but as it turns out, the studios behind the film didn’t need to know any numbers before…
LA activist group faces investigation over anti-ICE protests
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The anti-ICE protests and riots in Los Angeles brought heightened scrutiny on activist groups, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Union del Barrio. CHIRLA and the other groups are now subject to an investigation by Sen….
Reds agree deal for really EXCITING forward to join
© IMAGO – Richard Hughes Liverpool 2024-25 Liverpool are always on the hunt for the biggest teenage talents around. The club recently secured a deal for Rio Ngumoha from Chelsea, which followed on from a similar agreement for Trey Nyoni from Leicester. There is an established pathway for young players from the under-age ranks to…
I’m a payments expert – this is what happens when you use an agent to buy on your behalf
One of the biggest differences between being rich and poor is having people to do things for you. When a person moves from being poor to the middle class, they might get a cleaner or take their clothes to a dry cleaner; when they become rich, they might get a driver, a private chef –…
The story of mirror life: From intriguing idea to unprecedented threat
In the coming decades, we might figure out how to make an entirely new kind of life: a mirror cell, in which every molecule is the mirror image of those found in normal cells. Such reversed cells have probably never existed on our planet in its 4.5-billion-year history. Yet we could one day make them…
‘My blood cancer was dismissed as a pulled muscle’
Emma Stanley BBC News, Lancashire Handout Mel Tottoh was diagnosed with myeloma after months of rib and back pain A former footballer has told how he was in “complete shock” after being diagnosed with blood cancer – after first believing the pain was from a pulled muscle. Mel Tottoh was diagnosed with myeloma after months…
Amazon Spending $13 Billion To Build AI-Powered Data Centers In Australia
Computer servers in a data center. getty Amazon will invest A$20 billion ($13 billion) in the five years through 2029 to build data centers in Australia amid growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications. The spending—the biggest investment from a global technology provider in Australia—will hasten AI adoption across the country, boost productivity…