Category: Technology

The latest absurdist offering from Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Favourite and Poor Things, hits cinemas this week, and Bugonia promises to be another strange and rollicking masterpiece of complete, unmissable chaos. Lanthimos’s muse Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons reunite in this darkly comic tale about a pharmaceutical CEO (Stone) kidnapped by conspiracy theorists. Believing […]

Neanderthal handprints in a replica of Maltravieso Cave, Spain. WH Pics / Shutterstock The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 and 12,000 years ago) were capable of artistic flair. Discoveries […]

The consulting firm Accenture recently laid off 11,000 employees while expanding its efforts to train workers to use artificial intelligence. It’s a sharp reminder that the same technology driving efficiency is also redefining what it takes to keep a job. And Accenture isn’t alone. IBM has already replaced hundreds of roles with AI systems, while […]

Albert Joseph Moore/Shutterstock Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply human experience. For most of human history, a continuous eight-hour snooze was not the norm. Instead, […]

Gabriel Falloppius explaining one of his discoveries to the Cardinal Duke of Ferrara WellcomeTrust, CC BY-SA Buried in your body is a tribute to a long-dead Italian anatomist, and he is not the only one. You are walking around with the names of strangers stitched into your bones, brains, and organs. We all are. Some […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened its 84th Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Convention Centre Dublin, running from October 25–30, 2025. This marks ICANN’s first return to Ireland since 2015 and comes at a pivotal moment for global internet governance. A Landmark Gathering ICANN, the multistakeholder non-profit body responsible […]

🧠 Summary In a bold move following OpenAI’s unveiling of its Atlas browser, Microsoft has reintroduced Edge with Copilot Mode, transforming it into a context-aware AI browser. The update, announced on October 23, 2025, integrates Copilot directly into Edge, allowing users to search, summarize, and take action across the web—ushering in a new era of […]

🏭 Summary German automaker Volkswagen has issued internal warnings about possible production stoppages linked to a renewed semiconductor supply crisis, particularly involving chips from Nexperia, a Dutch-based but Chinese-owned supplier. The company cited geopolitical tensions and export restrictions as key factors threatening its manufacturing continuity. 🔧 Supply Chain Disruption The warning follows a decision by […]

Leaf your prejudices at the door. Black Salmon As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely useful machines or programs that help us solve problems, whereas strong AIs would have genuine intelligence. A strong AI would be conscious. Searle was sceptical of the […]