Companies racing to replace entry-level employees with artificial intelligence may be saving money in the short term, but they could be creating a much bigger problem for the future, according to an MIT research scientist. Andrew McAfee, who co-leads the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, has warned that automating away junior…
Austrian authorities convert Hitler’s birth house into police station. The house where Adolf Hitler was born has been converted into a police station, ending years of debate over its future.Located in Braunau am Inn, Austria, the 17th-century building has been renovated to serve a public role and prevent it from becoming a site for neo-Nazi…
Still, the outlook for Hawaii’s snails is uncertain, symbolizing a new era in the conservation of endangered species. In 1955, wildlife officials in Hawaii released a meat-eating “cannibal” snail to control an invasive pest. But the plan went terribly wrong. Instead of eating the pest, the predator turned on the islands’ rare native tree snails,…
The decline of coral reefs is often described through bleaching events, rising sea temperatures and fading marine life. Less attention is paid to something that disappears at the same time: sound. A healthy reef is rarely quiet. Snapping shrimp, feeding fish and countless other marine animals create a constant underwater backdrop that helps young fish…
Why the Ae’o nearly disappeared Imagine a bird that was so close to extinction that there were only a few hundred left in the entire world. But then hardwork of scientists and magic of innovation brought them back in large numbers and the same bird is now thriving across parts of its native habitat decades…
A health worker stands at an ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Congo, Monday, July 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Prosper Heri Ngorora) At least 999 people have died in an ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, according to official data released on Wednesday, with the actual toll potentially higher as authorities continue to track cases and fatalities.The…
A Sri Lankan-origin doctor at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children has been arrested and charged with possessing and accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material, Toronto Police said in a press release.Dilan Dissanayake, 44, was held by officers from the force’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit after an investigation into the alleged use of an electronic…
Kick Streamer Sweatergxd Gets Punched by Rampage Jackson After Crossing a Personal Boundary. (Image via X/@Kick_Champ) A tense moment involving MMA legend Rampage Jackson and Kick streamer Sweatergxd is making rounds after a party interaction turned physical within seconds. A video from the gathering shows the two meeting before things suddenly take a different direction….
In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of what is now Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Within a single human lifetime, most of it was gone. Soviet planners had redirected its two feeder rivers to irrigate cotton fields across Central Asia, and by the 1980s the lake…
An 11-year-old girl died in the River Thames after asking her father for permission to ‘dip her toes’ in the water, an inquest heard.Kaliyah Coa disappeared on 31 March 2025 after entering the water at Barge House Causeway, east London. A large-scale search was carried out, but her body was found two weeks later in…
