When European rabbits arrived in Australia in the 19th century, they were brought in as familiar game animals for hunting rather than as a threat to the environment. Within decades, however, their population exploded across the continent. With few natural predators and the ability to adapt to a wide range of landscapes, rabbits spread from […]
Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation. Instead, his experiment convinced him that people could become emotionally attached to machines far more easily than he had imagined. That discovery changed the course of […]
What began as a routine day of collecting rubbish in the streets of Ankara slowly turned into one of Turkey’s most inspiring community projects. Sanitation workers in the city’s Cankaya district noticed that perfectly readable books were frequently being discarded alongside household waste. Instead of sending them to landfill, workers started setting the books aside, […]
The story of nature tucked away in Kazakhstan’s Tian Shan Mountains, Kaindy Lake, seems like something out of a dream. Tree trunks poke eerily out of the water, ghostly and silent. It’s strange. Almost unreal. Locals and travellers alike are drawn to it, though, curious to see a forest frozen in time. Over a century […]
How China created artificial islands by dumping sand into the sea in just one decade (AI-generated) Island building in the open ocean is not a modern idea. Cities such as San Francisco and Miami expanded their coastlines decades ago by reshaping shallow waters. In recent years, however, large-scale island construction has increasingly taken place far […]
It was an unusual romance. In the summer of 2024, Ayrin, a busy, bubbly woman in her 20s, became enraptured by Leo, an AI chatbot that she had created on ChatGPT. She spent up to 56 hours a week with Leo on ChatGPT. Leo helped her study for nursing school exams, motivated her at the […]
FILE – Vice President Dick Cheney is seen during a medal ceremony and rally with troops at Camp Speicher, Iraq, Thursday, May 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file) Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and the architect of the “war on terror”, has died at 84. His death closes a turbulent chapter in […]
“You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbours.”External affairs minister S Jaishankar issued a stern warning to Pakistan at the United Nations in 2022. Three years later, Pakistan is yet to mend its ways, and the warning rings truer than ever. Then, both leaders accused Pakistan of nurturing […]
Rep Ana Paulina Luna said she’s confident that there are proof of “interdimensional beings”. Florida Republican Rep and a prominent MAGA spokesperson Anna Paulina Luna said she is certain that Congress has seen evidence of “interdimensional beings”. What are interdimensional beings? Things that exist and travel between dimensions of space or time. Anna Paulina said […]
Israel Defence Forces shared video of the nuclear reactor in Arak claiming that it was being used by Iran to create nuclear bomb. It also said that the reactor had been neutralized in an attack earlier on Thursday, which was also confirmed by Iran.“This nuclear reactor in Arak was created for one purpose: to build […]
