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By Fernando Marron In his 74 years, Humberto Simonaio had never experienced anything like it: the cyclone that hit southern Brazil swelled the Taquari river so badly it inundated even high ground he had never seen flood before. Simonaio, the owner of a beloved, half-century-old ice cream parlor called Keko in the hard-hit town of Mucum, said he knew he needed to get his freezers and other equipment to higher ground as last week’s storm […]
From zero to 100 km/h in less than a second: a racing car built by students has broken the world record for electric vehicle acceleration, a Swiss university said Tuesday. Students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences designed and built the “Mythen” vehicle that achieved the feat, ETHZ said in a statement. “Now, Guinness World Records has confirmed that Mythen broke the previous world acceleration […]
By Issam AHMED As colder weather sets in, Covid rates are once more rising across the Northern Hemisphere, with several new variants on the scene. Here’s what you need to know. – Covid versus seasonal nasties? – The Covid pandemic extracted a terrible toll, with nearly seven million deaths worldwide. But thanks to vaccines, prior immunity and better treatments, the virus is now far more manageable. In the United States, excess deaths — the total […]
French regulators on Tuesday ordered Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation, and to fix existing handsets. The French agency that regulates radio frequencies, the ANFR, said testing found that the model emits more electromagnetic waves susceptible to be absorbed by the body than permitted. The ANFR said it “ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 12 from the French market from September 12 due to the model exceeding […]
GENEVA, Sept 12, 2023 (AFP) – A third of the world’s population is still without access to the internet, even though the number of people connected has never been so high, according to the latest UN statistics published on Tuesday. Around 100 million more people are able to access the internet since last year’s census by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency for information and communication technologies. That means 67 percent of the […]
GENEVA, Sept 12, 2023 (AFP) – The death toll from freak floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar dramatically, with 10,000 people reported missing, the Red Cross warned on Tuesday. Officials in Libya have said at least 150 people were killed in the sudden flooding on Sunday afternoon after storm Daniel swept the Mediterranean, lashing Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. But Tamer Ramadan of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) […]
By Glenn CHAPMAN Apple on Tuesday is expected to freshen its iPhone lineup, improving performance and switching to a universal charger set to become mandatory in Europe next year. The tech titan has revealed nothing about what is in store at a “Wonderlust” event at its spaceship-like headquarters in Silicon Valley. However, it comes at a time of year when Apple usually announces new iPhones to be released ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season. […]
By Jan HENNOP A Dutch art detective has recovered a precious Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in a daring midnight heist during the coronavirus lockdown three-and-a-half years ago, police said Tuesday. Arthur Brand took possession of the missing painting, the 1884 “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring”, worth between three and six million euros ($3.2 million), at his Amsterdam home on Monday, stuffed in a blue IKEA bag. Brand, dubbed […]
By Daniel Lawler Lead poisoning has a far greater impact on global health than previously thought, potentially contributing to over five million deaths a year and posing a similar threat to air pollution, modelling research suggested Tuesday. The study, described as “a wake-up call”, also estimated that exposure to the toxic metal causes young children in developing countries to lose an average of nearly six IQ points each. Lead pollution has been shown to cause […]
By Jules BONNARD Proponents of artificial intelligence say its potential is limitless. But cyber scammers could also use it to their advantage. Analysts explained to AFP how the technology could increase the risk from online crime. – Phishers of emails – Chatbots are the best-known of all AI tools thanks to the rampant success of ChatGPT and many that have come afterwards, not least Google’s Bard. Phishing is the most ubiquitous form of cyber scam, […]
By Romain FONSEGRIVES When a wildfire erupted in the middle of a recent California night, it could have been a disaster. But thanks to a new monitoring system that uses artificial intelligence to scan for danger, firefighters were able to quell the blaze long before it got out of hand. “It was less than a quarter acre,” Captain Kris Yeary of Cal Fire told AFP. “Had the AI not alerted us to it, it could […]
By Sahar Al Attar with Joshua Melvin in Missirat, Morocco Homeless, traumatised and in some cases feeling abandoned by the authorities, many survivors of Morocco’s powerful earthquake escaped death only to fear they are now on their own to stay alive. The deadly quake has put a heavy burden on the North African kingdom’s emergency resources and some stranded in shattered communities were angry and shocked over what they say is a lack of a […]
