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OpenAI’s ChatGPT appears to be biased against people with disabilities, going by how it ranks resumes, according to rese...
01/07/2024

OpenAI’s ChatGPT appears to be biased against people with disabilities, going by how it ranks resumes, according to researchers in the US

AI innovators have already been told of the risks their chatbots bring, from potentially costing millions of people their jobs to "hallucinating" false information when fielding user queries. But a more immediate risk could be the prejudices that such software reinforces: According to University of....

Yeah, this is, like, totally what the world needs right now.
16/05/2024

Yeah, this is, like, totally what the world needs right now.

The lowest form of wit is sometimes the hardest to detect, in writing at least. And depending on how subtle the delivery - or how callow or tin-eared the listener - sarcasm can sometimes be missed in conversation as well, sailing over heads like a mis-hit corner kick. But now, in the most important....

More than a decade after Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad brutally crushed protests against him and his regime, the country...
13/03/2024

More than a decade after Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad brutally crushed protests against him and his regime, the country has been inundated with drugs which are threatening society. One of the biggest beneficiaries - the country's ruler al-Assad.

"I just wanted to forget all the misery and everything I lost," says Ahmad, a Syrian whose name has been changed as he wishes to remain anonymous. Ahmad turned to forbidden means to escape the anguish he was enduring in war-torn Syria. For years Ahmad was addicted to the drug commonly known as Capta...

Will we need sick bags? ✈️🤢
20/02/2024

Will we need sick bags? ✈️🤢

"The captain has switched on the 'fasten seatbelt' sign." If the sheer thought of turbulence is triggering panic and nausea in you, then one website might help calm your nerves before a flight. Turbli.com offers a kind of weather forecast for airplane turbulence: You enter your departure and destina...

A therapy centre for ghosting victims is now helping people in Berlin's dating scene to overcome the shame and fear they...
14/02/2024

A therapy centre for ghosting victims is now helping people in Berlin's dating scene to overcome the shame and fear they are left with when someone cuts off all contact.

"I don't think things are going to work out between us." It's a sentence that seems too final, too absolute. What if my date from last weekend thinks I'm arrogant for writing a text like that? Instead, maybe not texting or talking to them at all will make things easier. But for whom? Mostly just for...

Carbon emissions, groundwater pollution and pesticides - the impact of food production on our environment is rarely refl...
24/01/2024

Carbon emissions, groundwater pollution and pesticides - the impact of food production on our environment is rarely reflected in supermarket prices. One German retail chain adapted its prices to reflect the so-called "true cost". Surprisingly few consumers mind.

Fish, meat, cheese and milk would be far more expensive, while dairy alternatives and regional fruit and vegetables would stay the same or become cheaper. Prices in supermarkets around the world would look very different if they reflected the impact of food products on the environment through methan...

Later this year, a new model is set to top the list of the world's fastest cars. The speedometer's needle might never - ...
23/01/2024

Later this year, a new model is set to top the list of the world's fastest cars. The speedometer's needle might never - legally - touch speeds beyond 400 km/h, and yet billionaires around the world are only too happy to spend millions more on these cars.

Apart from stretches of Germany's autobahn with no speed limit, there are few public motorways in the world where drivers can use more than a fraction of the power turned out by the world's 10 fastest mega-cars. That has scarcely dented demand among deep-pocketed enthusiasts for these near mythical....

Samsung has left virtually no part of its latest flagship phones untouched by artificial intelligence.
18/01/2024

Samsung has left virtually no part of its latest flagship phones untouched by artificial intelligence.

Two words summarize just about everything that's shiny and new in Samsung's latest series of flagship smartphones: artificial intelligence. AI will translate phone calls in foreign languages for you in real time. AI will remove unwanted reflections from your photos. AI will even convert ordinary vid...

From low entry prices to high-tech, high-cost mobility, the newest arrivals in the automotive industry this year are evi...
17/01/2024

From low entry prices to high-tech, high-cost mobility, the newest arrivals in the automotive industry this year are evidence of just how big the choice in mobility has gotten.

Berlin (dpa) — The car industry is going through deep change, trying to move into a new world of electric mobility and yet at the same time unable to completely abandon the old. While engineers and designers groan under the burden of supporting different drive systems, customers benefit: in times ...

In 2020, Erdoğan formally converted Istanbul's world-famous Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque. Admission has been free e...
12/01/2024

In 2020, Erdoğan formally converted Istanbul's world-famous Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque. Admission has been free ever since - but now things are about to change for tourists.

It was a project close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's heart - but also one that was met with international criticism. In the summer of 2020, Erdoğan converted Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, once built as a church, from a museum back into a mosque. At the time, Erdoğan reassured the public ...

Built on a bog in one of Europe's foggiest, windiest and rainiest regions, the airport serving Ireland's western coast i...
12/01/2024

Built on a bog in one of Europe's foggiest, windiest and rainiest regions, the airport serving Ireland's western coast is something of a mystery. Still running despite naysayers, Knock airport is now booming after a "Banshees of Inisherin" boost to this region's tourism.

Many people in Ireland scoffed at the notion of building an airport on a windswept plateau of bogland in the west of the country. The received wisdom was that it would never get off the ground. But almost 40 years after the first flights roared up the 2.3-kilometre runway at Knock airport, or Irelan...

Why Valencia, Spain's third-largest city, is being crowned this year's European Green Capital
11/01/2024

Why Valencia, Spain's third-largest city, is being crowned this year's European Green Capital

"European Green Capital." For Valencia, this title - which the EU Commission has been annually bestowing on cities for ecological efforts since 2010 - is long overdue. After Tallinn last year, Grenoble in 2022 and Lahti in 2021, this year is now the one for recognising the environmental efforts of S...

Once again, the world's biggest electronics fair is being dominated by cars. But more attention than ever before is bein...
10/01/2024

Once again, the world's biggest electronics fair is being dominated by cars. But more attention than ever before is being pulled towards flying taxis at the annual CES tech fair in Las Vegas.

Car manufacturer Hyundai is getting serious about its plans to conquer urban skies with air taxis and has unveiled a four-passenger aircraft set to launch in 2028. Test flights of the vertical-takeoff aircraft, which has eight propellers but is said to be no louder than a dishwasher, are set to begi...

"Pre-heat the oven to 180° Celsius." If you're baking veggies, biscuits, a casserole or a roast, you can probably save s...
18/12/2023

"Pre-heat the oven to 180° Celsius." If you're baking veggies, biscuits, a casserole or a roast, you can probably save some energy and skip this step in the recipe.

The recipe is telling you to pre-heat the oven to 220° Celsius - but is this really necessary? Not always, say consumer protection and energy experts, and in many cases, it's good to question the recipe's call for a pre-heating. "Some recipes have you turn on the oven far more ahead of time for pre...

- 🍷 1 bottle of red wine- 🍊🍊🍊 3 juicy organic oranges- 🍋 1 organic lemon- 2 cinnamon sticks- 8 cloves- 50 g brown rock c...
14/12/2023

- 🍷 1 bottle of red wine
- 🍊🍊🍊 3 juicy organic oranges
- 🍋 1 organic lemon
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 8 cloves
- 50 g brown rock candy for sweetness

For anyone visiting Germany in winter, the spicy-sweet scent of mulled wine is almost inescapable. World leaders in mulled wine, they drink around 50 million litres per year, almost one bottle per capita, and much of it at the country's famous winter markets. But you don't have to travel all the way...

"Miracle" weight-loss drugs promise a sure-fire way to get slim. And yet evidence is piling up that while some weight mi...
13/12/2023

"Miracle" weight-loss drugs promise a sure-fire way to get slim. And yet evidence is piling up that while some weight might be lost during treatment, chances are strong that much will return once a person stops taking the drug.

In the fight against obesity, much hope has been pinned on weight loss drugs, and yet evidence is mounting that any weight lost simply comes back once a person stops taking the medication. Patients who take the drug tirzepatide, sold under the brands Mounjaro and Zepbound, show a significant weight....

If planning a winter holiday, why on earth would you go somewhere that's probably colder, wetter and darker than where y...
06/12/2023

If planning a winter holiday, why on earth would you go somewhere that's probably colder, wetter and darker than where you are right now? Stockholm's winter markets is why.

Be warned. Stockholm is one thing above all in December: dark. The sun rises after eight o'clock in the morning, only to disappear again at around 3 pm, and is often obscured all day by clouds. Lucky visitors may get some snow, but December here is decidely cold, wet and dark. That's why, until the....

Now 60 million views and counting: The trailer for one of the most anticipated game releases in a decade has arrived.
05/12/2023

Now 60 million views and counting: The trailer for one of the most anticipated game releases in a decade has arrived.

In less than half a day, the trailer for one of the most anticipated game releases in a decade has clocked up more than 50 million views on YouTube. And yet millions of fans of the "Grand Theft Auto" saga will have to wait until 2025, when the game launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, befo...

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