Category: Technology

Subsea fiber-optic cables, essential for global data transmission, have emerged as a pivotal battleground within the escalating great power rivalry involving the United States, China, and Russia. These cables, spanning vast distances worldwide and carrying a majority of international data traffic, are indispensable for various sectors, from finance to national security communications. The strategic value […]

A US biotech company has genetically modified mice to have traits from the extinct woolly mammoth. Researchers at Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences endowed their mice with the thick, shaggy hair of the mammoth and its efficient fat metabolism, which helped it survive in icy conditions. Colossal’s ultimate goal is to introduce these woolly mammoth traits, […]

Silk Typhoon, the Chinese state-backed hacking group responsible for breaching the US Treasury Department, has been caught targeting the global IT supply chain, including managed service providers, IT services firms, and remote monitoring companies. This shift in tactics was revealed by Microsoft’s threat intelligence team on Wednesday. Instead of directly attacking high-profile cloud services, Silk […]

Madagascar is an island that’s no stranger to natural disasters, in particular cyclones. This is because it’s located in the south-west Indian Ocean cyclone basin, a region of the Indian Ocean where tropical cyclones typically form and develop. Madagascar has experienced 69 cyclones between 1912 and 2022, although cyclones have been a pressure on the […]

Teleperformance, the world’s largest call center operator, is deploying artificial intelligence to “neutralize” Indian employees’ accents in an effort to improve customer communication. The AI-driven technology, developed by US startup Sanas, aims to make English spoken by Indian agents more easily understandable, addressing common issues where calls are often misinterpreted or difficult for customers to […]

KreateStuff/Shutterstock Cities can be deeply unwelcoming places for wildlife. They are noisy, difficult to get around, full of people and heavily reliant on artificial lighting. Yet some species do better in urban areas than in rural ones. Research is showing that animals of the same species that live in cities and the countryside are behaving […]

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) has been targeted by a cyberattack, prompting the agency to disconnect its network from the internet over the weekend in an effort to secure its systems. POLSA confirmed the breach on social media, stating that the incident had been reported to authorities, and an investigation was underway. While the agency […]

shutterstock rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The typical adult in the UK spends nearly two hours on social media per day. And for younger users, this can easily be up to five hours. The likes of Instagram or TikTok seem to draw us into their ever-changing feeds and it’s difficult to tear ourselves away from these platforms. Now our […]

marina.rodrigues/Shutterstock Sometimes AI isn’t as clever as we think it is. Researchers training an algorithm to identify skin cancer thought they had succeeded until they discovered that it was using the presence of a ruler to help it make predictions. Specifically, their data set consisted of images where a pathologist had put in a ruler […]

Ferryland lighthouse near Labrador in the Canadian Arctic, an area mapped by Mina Hubbard in 1905. Nagel Photography In the summer of 1905, a young Canadian widow, Mina Hubbard, set out on an expedition to map the northeastern corner of Labrador, from Lake Melville up to Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Arctic Ocean. It […]