Category: Technology

In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds of dinosaur footprints. Dating to the Middle Jurassic period (around 166 million years ago), the extensive trackways are part of what has been described as a huge “dinosaur highway”. They form the […]

Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification. Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech, equity, privacy, and infosec. Their silver bullet? “Age estimation” technology that scans our faces, applies an algorithm, and guesses how old we are […]

The FBI is warning the public that criminals exploit generative artificial intelligence (AI) to commit fraud on a larger scale which increases the believability of their schemes. Generative AI reduces the time and effort criminals must expend to deceive their targets. Generative AI takes what it has learned from examples input by a user and […]

CT-scan thin section through the centre of the bovid femur. The three bone arrowhead fragments and poison substance are visible. CT rendering and image segmentation: Dr Aliénor Duhamel, CC BY-NC-ND In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be […]

The agreement will enable ongoing collaboration between UK and Swedish researchers using neutron methods for materials studies. The new agreement builds on the long-term VR-ISIS partnership, one of ISIS’s longest-standing international relationships. 100 researchers, 20 institutions During the past eight years, over 100 Swedish researchers from 20 institutions have used ISIS for materials investigations across […]

Nigeria has announced a 50% hike in mobile phone and data tariffs, marking a significant rise in the cost of telecommunications services in the country. The increase, approved by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), comes at a time when the country is facing one of its most severe cost-of-living crises in decades, with inflation at […]

An Indian appeals court has issued a temporary stay on a decision by the country’s antitrust authority that had imposed a five-year ban on data sharing between WhatsApp and its parent company, Meta Platforms. This ruling, which was initially handed down by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), sought to address concerns about potential misuse […]

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has unveiled plans to invest $12 billion in developing artificial intelligence (AI) chips in 2025, marking a significant move to bolster its technological infrastructure. This ambitious investment comes as the company seeks to strengthen its position in the competitive AI sector, aiming to enhance its capabilities in machine learning, […]

Picture this: a rugby player sprints down the pitch with no opponent in sight, only to collapse mid-run. It’s a non-contact injury, a frustrating and often preventable setback that can sideline players for weeks or months. Rugby is a game of power, precision and relentless intensity – and it’s also a sport where injuries are […]

The new initiative announced by the UK’s major public funder of research and innovation follows an independent review of university spin-outs, published in November 2023. A key theme emerging from the review highlighted the need for more proof-of-concept funding for academic researchers to build confidence in commercial ventures before creating a spin-out company. Critical early-stage […]