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How Will China Answer The Hardest AI Question Of All?
There have been numerous stories about the new generation of AI chatbots lying when asked questions. This is rightly perceived as a big issue for the technology if it is to become routinely used an…
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In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived
About 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway are battery-powered. As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed. But problems with unreliable chargers persist.
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Paper trail
Canada is one of the biggest exporters of recyclable paper to India, but along with that paper comes plastic waste — lots of it.
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The Dutch Textile Trade Project
This project aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by examining data drawn from trade records alongside samples of textiles and visual culture depicting textiles in use.
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By Balenciaga meme is an amalgam of AI, Fashion & Pop Culture
One of the emergent viral memes worming it’s way into video stream suggestions across the internet is the “By Balenciaga” series that has rapidly evolved over the past 2 months to…
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Used clothing from Europe: Trash or treasure for Africa? | DW News
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Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years
The art was created long before modern humans inhabited France's Loire Valley
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Kukeri : How a Bulgarian Village Dances Evil Spirits Away
Once a year, the Bulgarian tradition of Kukeri unites a small village as residents wear intricate masks and costumes and dance at night. Killian Lassablière chronicles the practice in his short documentary.
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U.S. to restore more bison herds on tribal lands by tapping Indigenous knowledge
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands.
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How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation
The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda. Here’s what other countries can learn from its success.
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'Putin's chef' confirms plans for Chatham Islands in cryptic email to Stuff
The Russian oligarch boss of the Wagner private military company, known as “Putin’s chef”, has told Stuff in a cryptic email his group has plans for the Chatham Islands.
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Upper Canada Playhouse premieres new Norm Foster comedy, Moving In
After a winter and spring season of the live concerts Glory Days, Across the Pond and Honky Tonk Angels, Morrisburg, Ontario’s Upper Canada Playhouse is moving on to Moving In, the world premiere of a brand new comedy by Norm Foster, running June 8 to 25.
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Short selling Adani: how an obscure US firm profited from triggering the Indian giant's price plunge
Activist short selling is certainly controversial. But it’s not necessarily illegal nor unethical.
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No Mow May blamed for rise in hedgehog injuries
A hedgehog hospital owner says “heartbreaking” strimming injuries have doubled as long grass is cut.
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Origins of masturbation traced back to primates 40m years ago
Behaviour predates humans by tens of millions of years but evolutionary purpose is less clear, scientists say
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Europe is trying to ditch planes for trains. Here’s how that’s going
Banning ultra short-haul flights, creating air-rail links, and upping taxes on domestic and short flights – European countries are leading the way towards a public transport system that favors train travel over flying, but not without problems.
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I tried Delta's new free inflight Wi-Fi. Here's how fast it was
Delta's new free inflight internet service is better and more stable than earlier services and free to all SkyMiles members.
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The History of The Boycott
How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888.
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Black bear breaks into vehicle, guzzles 69 cans of pop | CBC News
A woman on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast awoke to a sticky situation last Thursday when she found a bear with a sweet tooth had broken into her car and crushed dozens of cans of soda she had left there overnight.
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In China, the Police Came for the Consultants. Now the C.E.O.s Are Alarmed.
Foreign businesses, a top Chinese official said in March, “are not foreigners, but family.” Then came a crackdown on firms with foreign ties.