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By Issam AHMED US President Joe Biden’s administration announced Wednesday it is banning new oil and gas drilling over a vast region of Alaska home to iconic animal species. The move comes a little over a year before the 2024 election, as Biden seeks to shore up his green credentials that were damaged by a decision earlier this year to greenlight a project by US energy giant ConocoPhillips in the same area. The prohibition covers […]
The United Nations called on Thursday for strict rules on the use of AI tools such as viral chatbot ChatGPT in classrooms, including limiting their use to older children. In new guidance for governments, the UN’s education body UNESCO warned that public authorities were not ready to deal with the ethical issues of rolling out “generative” Artificial Intelligence programs in schools. The Paris-based body said relying on such programs rather than human teachers could affect […]
By Yann SCHREIBER In Munich, where this week’s IAA motor show is taking place, an interactive street survey elicits an overwhelming “yes” when asking passers-by if they would take a self-driving taxi from the station to the Oktoberfest festival. But while the number of coloured balls placed in the “yes” column shows no shortage of enthusiasm, experts say the long-promised future of autonomous cars remains some way off. “Five years ago, we thought that by […]
Australia’s government Thursday cited Qatar’s “invasive” searches of women air passengers three years ago as a factor in its decision to block extra flights by the nation’s airline. Women passengers on a series of Qatar Airways flights from Doha — including one bound for Sydney — were subjected to gynaecological examinations in October 2020 as the authorities searched for the mother of a newborn baby found in an airport bathroom. The women had been escorted […]
By Kyoko HASEGAWA Japan’s “Moon Sniper” mission blasted off Thursday as the country’s space programme looks to bounce back from a string of recent mishaps. Only the United States, Russia, China and, since last month, India have successfully landed a probe on the Moon, with two failed Japanese missions — one public and one private. Watched by 35,000 people online, the H-IIA rocket lifted off early Thursday from the southern island of Tanegashima carrying the […]
By Silvio AVILA The death toll from a cyclone that unleashed torrential rain and flooding on southern Brazil rose to at least 36 Wednesday, authorities said, as the region braced for more violent weather. With the flood waters forcing some residents to climb onto their roofs, a major emergency operation was underway, with one official saying more than 1,000 people were awaiting rescue. The storms, which started Monday, left whole neighborhoods submerged in the southern […]
From devastating fires in the north to winter heatwaves in the south, the last three months produced another grim litany of extreme, and often deadly, weather events. The June-August period was the hottest in history, according to the latest report Wednesday from the European climate observatory Copernicus. Here’s a recap of how the season unfolded: – Northern hemisphere sweltered – One heat record after the other tumbled over the course of summer in the northern […]
By Juan José Rodríguez On a tiny Caribbean island, hundreds of people are preparing to pack up and move to escape the rising waters threatening to engulf their already precarious homes. Surrounded by idyllic clear waters, the densely populated island of Carti Sugtupu off Panama’s north coast has barely an inch to spare with houses crammed together — some jutting out into the sea on stilts. The island’s Indigenous community of fewer than 2,000 souls […]
Two people have been detained after using an excavator to dig a hole in the Great Wall of China, state broadcaster CCTV said. Police in Shanxi province followed tracks made by machinery used to dig a shortcut through a segment of the wall — remains of the immense structure built by China’s emperors to deter foreign invaders. The suspects admitted under questioning that they had used a digger to create a shortcut in the wall […]
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has been granted Indonesia’s first golden visa, officials said, as Southeast Asia’s biggest economy looks to attract wealthy foreign investors. The co-founder of the ChatGPT bot sensation was granted a 10-year visa for his potential contributions to the development of artificial intelligence in Indonesia, director-general of immigration Silmy Karim said in a statement late Monday. “Once the holders of Golden Visa arrive in Indonesia, they no longer need to apply […]
Revelers stuck in the mud for days at the Burning Man festival in Nevada finally began heading home on Monday after heavy rainfall poured on their big party. With the sun now shining on the colorful makeshift community of 70,000 people called Black Rock City, the roads opened Monday afternoon, kicking off the official exit process known as the “Exodus.” “Exodus operations have officially begun in Black Rock City,” the festival said in a statement […]
By Léa PERNELLE One of the world’s biggest auto shows opened in Munich on Monday, with Tesla ending a 10-year absence to jostle for the spotlight with Chinese rivals as the race for electric dominance heats up. Chancellor Olaf Scholz will officially inaugurate the IAA mobility show, held in Germany every two years, on Tuesday. But carmakers used Monday’s press preview as an early chance to show off some of the new models that will […]
