In a groundbreaking moment for the art world, Sotheby’s will auction the first-ever artwork created by a humanoid robot. Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, has produced a striking portrait of computing pioneer Alan Turing that will go under the hammer this month. First humanoid robot artist (Ai-Da) A fusion of art and artificial […]
Three Chinese astronauts including the country’s only woman spaceflight engineer entered the Tiangong space station Wednesday morning following an early morning launch into orbit. The Shenzhou-19 mission took off with its trio of space explorers from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, state news agency Xinhua and state broadcaster CCTV reported. Among the […]
China spacecraft launches in mission to space station A Chinese spacecraft with a three-person crew, including the country’s first female space engineer, has docked after a journey of more than six hours. The crew will use the homegrown space station as a base for six months to conduct experiments and carry out spacewalks as Beijing […]
BBC Nyakuma and her husband Sunday, who live in a village in South Sudan, struggle to find food due to drought The area of land surface affected by drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has revealed. Forty-eight per cent of the Earth’s land surface had at […]
Woodland Trust The Skipinnish oak is on Lochaber’s Achnacarry Estate A tree in the Scottish Highlands thought to be at least 1,000 years old and known as the Skipinnish Oak has been named UK Tree of the Year. Native woodland experts had no idea the tree existed until a gathering in 2009. The band Skipinnish, […]
Chris Packham has reached a settlement with the government over two legal challenges against its decision to remove or delay some environmental policies. The TV presenter took legal action against the previous Conservative government in late 2023, arguing it acted unlawfully by delaying some policies aimed at helping the UK reaching net zero emissions by […]
Impersonation scams are everywhere these days, and scammers love to pose as government officials, big corporations or even politicians. But often, they’re also pretending to be your favorite celebrities. You’ve probably seen deepfakes of celebrities promoting cryptocurrency, NFTs or sketchy products (seriously, Tom Hanks isn’t out here pushing bogus medical products). Plenty of famous faces […]
What discovered Mayan city Valeriana might have looked ike A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche. They uncovered the hidden complex – which they have called Valeriana – using Lidar, […]
Salvamontes Colombia The yellow flower of one of the rarest magnolias in Colombia Scientists assessing dangers posed to the world’s trees have revealed that more than a third of species are facing extinction in the wild. The number of threatened trees now outweighs all threatened birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians put together, according to the […]
Over the past few months, we’ve seen a wave of data breaches affecting millions of people, from health care giants to government contractors and more. This latest incident is yet another in a long line of alarming breaches. Change Healthcare experienced a major data breach in February this year, causing widespread disruption across the U.S. […]