Category: Technology

Airtel, one of India’s leading telecommunications providers, has released its “Spam Watch” report, shedding light on the massive volume of unsolicited calls and messages inundating its users. According to the report, a staggering 8 billion spam calls and 800 million SMS messages were recorded over a 75-day period, highlighting a significant rise in digital intrusions. […]

Sergemi / Shutterstock At the bottom of the oceans and seas lie more than 8,500 shipwrecks from two world wars. These wrecks have been estimated to contain as much as 6 billion gallons of oil, as well as munitions, toxic heavy metals and even chemical weapons. For decades, these wrecks have largely lain out of […]

A caracal photographed at Miller's Point in Cape Town. © John Hishin/via Urban Caracal Project Have you recently opened YouTube or TikTok and immediately gone looking for cat videos? If your answer is “yes”, then you’re not alone: the global consumption of cat-related media online is simply massive. In 2015, there were over 2 million […]

Students are accused of a large proportion of harassment and threats towards Swedish academics. Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock Last week, Ally Louks (now Dr. Louks), an academic at the University of Cambridge, posted a picture of herself on the social media site X with her fresh PhD thesis titled “Olfactory Ethics: The politics of smell in modern […]

The evaluation From the outcomes of rounds one to six of the fund, the interim evaluation of the programme: provides insight on progress against the fund’s objectives reflects on the design of the programme highlights the positive impacts on the research capacity and capabilities of higher education providers (HEPs) Commissioned by Research England, it has […]

Meta has unveiled plans to build a cutting-edge $10 billion artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, which will be the largest of the company’s 20 data centers worldwide. The new facility is poised to play a pivotal role in supporting Meta’s AI-driven technologies, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads. The construction […]

Owlie Productions / Shutterstock The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on how we live and work in future. But they haven’t appeared from nowhere and have a much longer […]

Andrii Kobryn/Shutterstock The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 say they’ve never been readers, according to research by The Reading Agency. But what are the […]