
Sky News - 1 day 45 min ago
The government is piloting the use of artificial intelligence in the crown court, with a raft of new technology projects aiming to deliver improvements across the justice system and tackle the court backlog.

Vox - 1 day 1 hour ago
Doctors Without Border (MSF) personnel at the Elikya clinic Ebola treatment center is sprayed with disinfectants upon leaving the hospital rooms for Ebola patients in Bunia, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on June 5, 2026. | GLODY MURHABAZI / AFP via Getty Images In just 10 days over the summer of 1854, 500 people died of cholera in the Soho neighborhood of London. The city's population had more than doubled to 2.3 million people in the first half of the 1800s, and its sewage...

Vox - 1 day 2 hours ago
This photo taken on February 1, 2018, shows an engineer holding a silicon face against the head of a robot at a lab of a doll factory of Exdoll, a firm based in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian. | AFP via Getty Images Humanity may be scrolling its way out of existence. Across the globe, fertility rates are plummeting. In 2023, the average number of births per woman worldwide fell beneath 2.1 the minimum level necessary for averting population decline (also known as the "replacement...

Variety - 1 day 18 hours ago
The first new “Spyro” game in nearly two decades will release next spring from developer Toys for Bob in collaboration with Microsoft’s Activision. Tom Kenny, the original voice of Spyro, will be reprising his role as the iconic purple dragon for the project. Titled “Spyro: A Real Beyond,” is described as “a completely original adventure […]...

Newser - 1 day 20 hours ago
Just a few years ago, America's public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Los Angeles middle school teacher Anna Soffer remembers it well: "The idea was that technology is the future, so we need to put tech in every child's hands." Now, the conversation has flipped, the...

NY Post - 1 day 20 hours ago
Brain chips could improve the lives of more than 3 billion people with neurological conditions, especially those related to movement and speech.

Science Alert - 2 days 1 hour ago
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Newser - 2 days 5 hours ago
San Francisco police say they're likely dealing with a first in the city: a burglar who used a driverless car as his getaway ride. What's more, he got away with it. In under three minutes, a man slipped into Hot 8 Yoga in the Marina District, grabbed an armful of...