Wildfires are exploding across the West, especially in California, where the Park Fire has grown to be the biggest in the state this year. The largest of several wildfires in the state is the Park Fire, burning in Butte, Tehama, Shasta and...
Life-threatening heat is returning to the West before spreading to the East Coast later this week. This weekend, record highs were tied and broken from Florida to Colorado. Dalhart, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, hit a record high of 103 degrees, w...
Protests against the war in Gaza have spread from Columbia and Yale to other US universities as officials scramble to defuse demonstrations. On Monday night, police moved to break up a protest at New York University and made a number of arrests. Do...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has claimed his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he said "promising" brain activity had been detected after the...
Japan is set to make the latest attempt at a soft touch-down on the Moon. Its Slim (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) mission will aim for a gentle slope, close to an equatorial crater called Shioli. The bid follows the failur...
Amazon has become the latest tech giant to announce a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI). It said that the bot, called Q, would help businesses to do things like summarise long documents or group chats and would increase prod...
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Google is trialling a digital watermark to spot images made by artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to fight disinformation. Developed by DeepMind, Google's AI arm, SynthID will identify images generated by machines. It works by...
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The world's average temperature reached a new high on Monday 3 July, topping 17 degrees Celsius for the first time. Scientists say the reading was the highest in any instrumental record dating back to the end of the 19th century....
The unrest started after French police shot a 17-year-old driver who refused to stop for a traffic check in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Emergency services attended the scene but Nahel, the driver, died shortly afterwards. A video was released on ...
Learner driver flips car during driving test in Argentina...
A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer has shown real promise in a major NHS trial, researchers say. The test correctly revealed two out of every three cancers among 5,000 people who had visited their GP with suspected symptom...
The government has allowed animal testing for makeup ingredients to resume despite a 25-year ban. It changed a policy on animal testing to align with EU chemical rules, according to a High Court ruling. The High Court said on Fri...
Sam Altman discusses how a new version of ChatGPT that launched this week is capable of reason and the ability to analyze images....
An Illinois man has been indicted for allegedly cheating the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for his pop-up COVID testing company and allegedly lied about test results. Zishan Alvi, 44, was the co-owner of Laboratory Elite, head...
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US households are once again able to order free at-home Covid-19 tests, as the government attempts to limit the spread of the virus this winter. The White House said up to four rapid tests could be ordered from the government website...
Prices are continuing to rise at their fastest rate for 40 years as food, energy and fuel costs continue to climb. UK inflation, the rate at which prices rise, edged up to 9.1% in the 12 months to May, from 9% in April, the Office...