GENEVA - The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Friday that the Myanmar junta was pressuring people into voting in an election next month and that electronic voting machines and AI surveillance could help authorities to identify opponents.
Concerns were raised around the possible tracking of who people are voting for.
Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big toe for climbing but still walked upright in a distinct style. Isotope tests
A University of Southampton study has revealed an intriguing new clue in the mystery of what triggers periods of very intense, brightly colored activity during displays of both the southern and northern lights.
When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into such a huge variety of sizes? Now, Emmanuel Villermaux at Aix-Marseille
Cherry keyboards could soon be vintage.
Palestinian student Razan Shawar has travelled for 24 hours to showcase her team's AI-powered invention at World Robot Olympiad in Singapore, telling AFP innovation -- not war -- should be why people hear about her country. The 15-year-old high school student from Ramallah in
A new study shows that while Czech speakers are immune to specific grammar illusions in their mother tongue, they unconsciously adopt the "glitchy" processing patterns of native speakers when reading in English.
Researchers at the University of Sydney have cracked a long-standing problem in microchip-scale lasers by carving tiny "speed bumps" into the devices' optical cavity in their quest to produce exceptionally "clean" light. This exquisitely narrow spectrum light could be used in
Jackery's flagship portable power station drops to $349 for Black Friday. The post Amazon Sells Jackery Explorer 1000 at New Low, 1500W Power Keeps Americans Safe From Winter Outages appeared first on Kotaku .
Lars Stevens-Cullinane works in a dark room. But he's not processing negatives and printing photographs on light-sensitive paper; he's testing whether brief flashes of light can make drug-resistant bacteria sensitive to antibiotics.
After years studying wild birds in the bush, Flinders University experts have described a new call type frequently used by one of Australia's favorite birds, the superb fairy-wren.
The U.S. and EU should be doing more to support Ukraine's financial names.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Disc-mas. In these final days of December, as Record Store Day Black Friday again takes over independent music shops, vinyl exclusives are the reason for the season for hundreds of thousands of music fans. This year, there are about 175
[This Day] The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has declared that Kenya and Nigeria is collaborating intentionally to develop cross-border production networks, industrial corridors, and investment partnerships that would reflect both countries strengths.
What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the answer was simple: mammoth bones.
In extreme cases, they will not be able to drive in pure electric mode.
Trying to stop financial crises before they happen is not enough on its own, according to new research from the University of Surrey. The study shows that when governments and central banks only focus on preventing crises and neglect how they will respond after one hits, they
Israel claims the two men were terrorists, while Palestinians allege the incident represented extrajudicial killing.
Leaders of key parties contesting the crucial state polls made a last-ditch pitch to more than 1.7 million eligible voters on Friday (Nov 28), a day before polling.
Some bat species seek shelter during the day in the attics of large, mostly historic buildings within human settlements, even though they forage for insects at night in the dark surrounding countryside.
Russia's leader praised what he called Orban's "balanced position on the situation in Ukraine".
Vehicles and buildings designed to enable survival in extreme environments, such as spacecraft, submarines and sealed shelters, heavily rely on systems for the management of carbon dioxide (CO2). These are technologies that can remove and release CO2, ensuring that the air
Save $30 for a limited time on the WD 5TB My Passport Ultra over at Amazon. The post At $0.02 Per GB, WD 5TB My Passport External Hard Drive Leaves No Margin on the Table appeared first on Kotaku .
An international team has discovered a simple and environmentally friendly way to power the next generation of self-charging electronics. The work is published in Nano Energy.
Greater participation by women in the investment landscape could boost EU GDP by €600 billion by 2040.
A major outage at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange brought futures and options trading to a standstill on Friday, disrupting activity across global equity, currency, bond, and commodity markets.
Sebadoh have a new music video out today, more than a decade in the making. The clip for "Love You Here," from 2013's Defend Yourself , is directed by Ricardo Spencer and André Peniche. I'll let Lou Barlow explain how it came together, as excerpted from the YouTube caption:
Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that the prefrontal cortex assembles these blocks like Legos to create new
This backlight syncs instantly with your screen. The post Govee TV Backlight Drops to Just a Few Dollars, Turn Basic TV Into Cinema Setup on a Budget appeared first on Kotaku .
The group includes consultants, scaffolding subcontractors and a middleman of the estate’s renovation project.
Experts say the deal may put fans at risk as the Catalan club tries to relieve its financial woes.
UK's capital is hosting the Gingerbread City, where architects swap drawings for dough to build a miniature world made of biscuit and sugar.
