Global Water Crisis Leaves Half of World Food Production at Risk in Next 25 Years

Landmark review says urgent action needed to conserve resources and save ecosystems that supply fresh water.

How does WhatsApp make money? It’s free - with some tricks

WhatsApp makes money from corporate customers wanting to communicate with users.

TV ads to target households on individual streets

The channel is to use new technology which will allow brands to tailor who sees their advert by enabling them to select a demographic within a specific location down to street level.

Man Sues Town for $647 Million Over Trashed Bitcoin Hard Drive

The Bitcoin landfill lawsuit is only the latest in a tragic, decades-long story about a guy accidentally throwing out 8,000 BTC.

People Think They Already Know Everything They Need To Make Decisions

When given partial info, most people felt confident they knew all they needed to.

Amazon plans to build small, modular nuclear reactors

The company has reached agreements in Washington and Virginia.

New skin research could help slow signs of ageing

The research is part of a study to understand how every part of the human body is created, one cell at a time.

How to Prevent Another Europa Clipper Transistor Panic

4 technologies that can radiation-harden future spacecraft electronics

First Section of Euclid Space Telescope’s Map of the Universe Revealed

Mosaic of 208 gigapixels covers 1% of what will be the final 3D map, which is expected to capture billions of galaxies.

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Petroleum Drilling Technology Is Now Making Carbon-Free Power

By the time the project is fully completed in 2028, this Utah plant will deliver 320 megawatts total — enough to power 350,000 homes.

Prada reveals its spacesuit for NASA’s Artemis III mission

The designer teamed up with Axiom Space to create the suit.

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In Point Leamington, an entire museum is devoted to gloves and the stories they carry

Museum shows off celebrity-worn gloves at plant in central Newfoundland/

Sleep perfectionists: the exhausting rise of orthosomnia

Could all this data be making our insomnia worse?

New Interface Uses Light to Scale Up Quantum Computers

Qubit-photon interfaces could entangle multiple quantum processors.

Human Sense of Smell Is Faster Than Previously Thought, New Study Suggests

In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a fraction of a second, working at a level of sensitivity that is “on par” with how our brains perceive color.

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Trees and Land Absorbed Almost No CO2 Last Year

The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating

Chinese Scientists Report Using Quantum Computer To Hack Military-grade Encryption

The researchers did acknowledge that limitations would hamper — at least for now — a full-on quantum hack.

This 237-million-year-old fossil from Brazil could shed light on rise of dinosaurs

One of the oldest fossils ever discovered, Gondwanax paraisensis was a 4-legged reptile species.

AI gives voice to dead animals in Cambridge exhibition

Creatures can converse and share their stories by voice or text through visitors’ mobile phones at Museum of Zoology.

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Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing

Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it. The discovery suggests that seasonal tracking is fundamental to life.

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AI Threats ‘Complete BS’ Says Meta Senior Research, Who Thinks AI is Dumber Than a Cat

LeCun thinks that today’s AI models, while useful, are far from rivaling the intelligence of our pets, let alone us.

Were America’s Electric Car Subsidies Worth the Money?

The largest electric vehicles have high costs in road deaths and pollution because of their electricity needs.

Hatch and release: One group’s gamble to save at-risk baby turtles

Endangered turtles get some TLC from dedicated Petrie Island guardians.

== Much of it a repeat, but perhaps something new for each of us
Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon

The spacecraft has been developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California

Study Done By AI Scientists Proves LLMs Have No Ability to Reason

Their initial testing reveals that slight changes in the wording of queries can result in significantly different answers, undermining the reliability of the models.

Mystery Drones Swarmed a US Military Base for 17 Days. Investigators are Stumped

For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S.

Zambia Faces a Climate-Induced Energy Crisis

Zambians are facing a daily struggle to find electricity during a climate-induced energy crisis that’s robbed the southern African country of almost all its power.

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This Teenage Hacker Became a Legend Attacking Companies. Then His Rivals Attacked Him.

He had limited social skills and trouble developing relationships, records say — and ultimately looked for approval in the booming world of cybercrime.

SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster after launching Starship’s fifth flight

It’s a huge milestone in SpaceX’s plans to make Starship and the Super Heavy rocket a fully reusable system.

LLM attacks take just 42 seconds on average, 20% of jailbreaks succeed

Attacks on large language models (LLMs) leak sensitive data 90% of the time when successful.

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Who’s Winning America’s ‘Tech War’ With China?

China is racing to unseat the United States as the world’s technological superpower.

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The Radio-Obsessed Civilian Shaping Ukraine’s Drone Defense

Since Russia’s invasion, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov has become an influential, if sometimes controversial, force—sharing expert advice and intel on the ever-evolving technology that’s taken over the skies.

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AI Disclaimers in Political Ads Backfire on Candidates, Study Finds

But the new labeling requirements could have an unintended boomerang effect hurting any candidate who acknowledges using AI in ads.

Physicists Generated Sound Waves That Travel In One Direction Only

Self-oscillations guide sound waves in only one direction through the circulator.

Scientists have finally seen the face of the world’s largest bug

Arthropleura, which roamed the Earth 300 million years ago, are the ancestors of centipedes and millipedes.

== yjc, we will have to wait for the final answer
Christopher Columbus’s DNA to shed light on his origins

DNA samples were taken in 2003 from the bones of Columbus (known in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón), his son, Hernando, and brother, Diego.

== and the verdict
Columbus probably ???

Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492, beginning a period of European contact with the region.