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'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint
On 1 April, the same day California’s new $20 hourly minimum wage for fast-food workers went...
We found unhealthy pesticide levels in 20% of US produce
When it comes to healthy eating, fruits and vegetables reign supreme. But along with all their...
Chemist fired by ADA for not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to diabetics
Elizabeth Hanna had a simple job: help people with diabetes figure out what to eat. Anyone...
How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English
We’re witnessing the birth of AI-ese, and it’s not what anyone could have guessed. Let’s delve...
California cracks down on water pumping: 'The ground is collapsing'
Even after two back-to-back wet years, California’s water wars are far from over. On Tuesday, state...
Post Office urged by external lawyers to 'suppress' key document, inquiry hears
The Post Office was urged by its external law firm to “try and suppress” disclosure of...
US provides assurances to prevent Julian Assange appeal against extradition
The US has provided assurances to the high court in London in an attempt to prevent...
World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent...
Climate crisis: average world incomes to drop by nearly a fifth by 2050
Average incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years as a result...
'Water is more valuable than oil': the corporation cashing in on America drought
One of the biggest battles over Colorado River water is being staged in one of the...
The US reauthorizing and expanding its surveillance laws
The US House of Representatives agreed to reauthorize a controversial spying law known as Section 702...
Dead satellites could affect Earth's magnetic field
A dead spacecraft the size of a truck ignites with plasma and pulverizes into dust and...
Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK
Creating a sexually explicit “deepfake” image is to be made an offence under a new law,...
Astronomers discover Milky Way's biggest stellar black hole–33 times size of sun
Astronomers have discovered an enormous black hole which formed in the aftermath of an exploding star...
Dun, Dun Duuun Where did pop culture's most dramatic sound come from? (2022)
There’s surely only one thing that unites Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, the 1974...
Colorado funeral home where 190 bodies were found charged with Covid fraud
The couple who owned a Colorado funeral home – where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last...
'We're the last bastion of rental': video stores resisting rise of streaming
A man shuffles along a royal blue carpet and props himself up against a stacked shelf...
Top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
If you zoomed out on the universe, well beyond the level of planets, stars or galaxies,...
From boom to burst, the AI bubble is only heading in one direction
“Are we really in an AI bubble,” asked a reader of last month’s column about the...
US House votes to re-authorize law, allows warrantless surveillance of citizens
House lawmakers voted on Friday to reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or...
Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death in $27B fraud case
A prominent property tycoon has been sentenced to death for her role in Vietnam’s biggest-ever fraud...
