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AI could use 3% of world's power by 2030, strain water supplies: UN report

As AI models become cheaper and more attractive, the report expects this to encourage new uses and higher volumes of use, eroding and possibly erasing any savings from efficiency advances

What is Beaufort Castle, Lebanon's Crusade-era fortress seized by Israel

Perched above the Litani gorge, the 12th-century fortress played a key role during the Crusades and has remained strategically important through successive conflicts in southern Lebanon

How to deal with disappointment: Expert explains this misunderstood emotion

Disappointment often reflects a gap between expectation and reality. It can involve grieving a future we had already begun to live in our minds

Privacy isn't dead, it has just been made inconvenient by tech companies

When you trade privacy for convienence by giving an app access to your data, it's import to know what you're giving away - and who is sharing it

Would you trust AI to help you find 'the one'? Dating apps bet it can

Outsourcing matchmaking to AI risks further reducing love and intimacy - a universal human experience - into something to be quantified and calculated, stripping it of its humanness

Renewed US-China alignment after Trump-Xi summit may spark global concerns

Renewed US-China G2 dynamic in 2026 looks less like global leadership and more like a strategic bargain between two powers, with the rest of the world left to bear the hidden costs.

When workplace clashes with your ethics: The problem of 'moral injury'

Moral injury is no longer confined to doctors and nurses, with workers across sectors increasingly facing psychological distress when corporate decisions clash with personal ethics

Why AI data centre boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips

The AI boom has changed memory demand from a broad consumer cycle into a more segmented market centered on high-bandwidth memory chips

Sramcbled wrods: Real reason why your brain can still read jumbled text

We can often read scrambled words, but not because the order of letters doesn't matter. It's because our brains are remarkably good at making sense of imperfect information

'Just looping you in': Why letting AI write emails may create more work

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, is increasingly allowing people to offload the repetitive routines of tending one's inbox

Floppy to Mythos, how ransomware grew into multibillion-dollar industry

Today, artifical intelligence makes malware coding and crafting convincing phishing-emails in any language simple

Meta, Microsoft have joined tech layoff tsunami, but is AI really to blame?

The workers most at risk are not necessarily those whose tasks can be replicated by AI. They are those who wait for pressure to arrive from outside rather than getting ahead of it now

How do teens use AI companions? With more creativity than you might think

The American Academy of Paediatrics recently shifted screen-time guidelines from set time limits to a framework that accounts for the individual child, their use, family relationships and their enviro

Is mouthwash bad for heart health? Here's what research actually says

Several small studies have actually found that giving people mouthwash can change the balance of bacteria in the mouth

Study finds marriage prevent cancer, highlights role of social support

According to study, men who had never married were about 70% more likely to develop cancer while women who had never married were about 85% more likely to develop cancer

UTI antibiotics not enough? Here's what to do if symptoms don't go away

UTIs are common, affecting half of all women at some point. They occur when bacteria enter the urinary tract, causing symptoms such as burning, urgency, frequent urination

Neuroscience explains why teens are so vulnerable to social media platforms

Landmark verdict intensifies calls for regulation amid concerns over addiction, depression and online harms among teenagers

Our modern vision evolved from ancient one-eyed worm creature, finds study

Evolution of paired eyes in vertebrates was key to brain growth, enabling complex behaviour and cognition, highlighting the deep link between vision and the development of larger, more advanced brains

AI health chatbots won't make you better at diagnosing yourself: Study

People who used chatbots were less likely to identify the correct condition than those who didn't. They were also no better at determining the right place to seek care

No gym needed: Even small movements have health benefits, say researchers

Many people do not consider housework a form of physical activity, but tasks like sweeping, mopping or vacuuming require sustained movement and engage multiple muscle groups