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The Netherlands' data protection authority has imposed a penalty of €30.5M on Clearview AI for GDPR violations.

Student-interns are paid for low-skill factory tasks and spend little time in the classroom.

Syrian-American entrepreneurs and investors hope to facilitate 25,000 new tech jobs in the country by 2030.

A new breed of elite flexes its muscle

After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

Clean-energy technologies made up more than 10% of China’s economy in 2024 for the first...

Carbon capture firm inks latest CO2 removal deals with social media giant TikTok and British rum maker Two Drifters

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Explore the impact of Wikipedia’s deletionist approach and its effects on content preservation and management. This white paper offers a detailed analysis of the shift towards deletion and its implications.

Some fringe conspiracy theorists are connecting COVID-19 vaccines to the mark of the beast. A religion scholar explains why the biblical reference should be considered in its first-century context.

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French airplane designer had originally planned to introduce commercial H2-powered model by 2035

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Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people

As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation.

The company said it would now focus its efforts on developing fully autonomous vehicles for personal use.

A new degradable supramolecular plastic has been created that decomposes in seawater into monomers that can be metabolized by bacteria.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is quitting a major climate group for banks, as increasingly complex regulations and US political attacks lead some of the financial industry’s biggest firms to rethink such affiliations.

Farmers in Ghana’s Upper East region traditionally decided when to plant and harvest their crops in rhythm with regular rainfall cycles. But the rains now come at increasingly odd times, farmland is turning into desert, and farmers have been forced to endure temperatures high enough to melt tarmac. Amid these impacts, agroforestry is offering a […]

Hurricanes, floods, and power outages are disrupting patient care, according to Harvard and Americares.

‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say

GenCast, a probabilistic weather model using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, has greater skill and speed than the top operational medium-range weather forecast in the world and provides probabilistic, rather than deterministic, forecasts.

Michael Rider succeeds Hedi Slimane as Celine's creative director starting in 2025. Explore how his experience with Phoebe Philo and Polo Ralph Lauren will shape future collections

A new crop of biotech startups are working on an alternative to alternative protein.

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