Who decides the best AI?
The AI industry has become adept at measuring itself. Benchmarks improve, model scores rise, and every new release arrives with a list of metrics meant
Peace as policy: Mediation is the core sense of modern diplomacy
Norway and Qatar have made mediation not an instrument of goodwill but a core instrument of security policy.
Refugees return to ruined Nigerian town despite threats from armed groups
‘We must live, we must hope’, say returnees who were displaced for a decade from homes in Malam Fatori, Borno State.
Saudi-led coalition attacks south Yemen separatists
Video shows explosions at an arms storage facility in southern Yemen.
With GeForce Super GPUs missing in action, Nvidia focuses on software upgrades
For the first time in years, Nvidia declined to introduce new GeForce graphics card models at CES. CEO Jensen Huang’s characteristically sprawling and under-rehearsed 90-minute
Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC
A Federal Communications Commission proposal to let state and local prisons jam contraband cell phones has support from Republican attorneys general and prison phone companies
Plot to kill Burkina Faso leader foiled, says junta
The security minister accuses neighbouring Ivory Coast of funding the plan to kill Capt Traoré.
Russia sends navy to guard oil tanker being pursued by US forces
US officials say that American forces plan to seize the Russian-flagged ship, which is accused of breaking sanctions.
Families shocked Swiss ski bar was not inspected for years before deadly fire
The New Year’s Eve fire at a bar in Crans-Montana killed 40 people and injured 116.
Trump says Venezuela will be ‘turning over’ up to 50 million barrels of oil to US
Earlier the president said US oil firms could be “up and running” in the country within 18 months.
The U.S. imposed a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers tied to Venezuela. How is that working out?
Questioned over the weekend about how the U.S. government will take over governing Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio instead shifted the focus to the
Canadian tourists voice concerns over Caribbean travel after U.S. strike on Venezuela
Travellers planning trips to the Caribbean are voicing trepidation online after the U.S. strike on Venezuela that captured president Nicolás Maduro, while one Latin America expert says
Why people donate their bodies to science
This study examines the psychological and social factors influencing body donation decisions, highlighting family experiences and public health implications.