Spain transport minister says he won’t resign over high-speed rail disaster
Óscar Puente has been facing calls to resign after two high-speed trains collided earlier in the week, killing at least 69 people.
Swedish academic says he has been barred from UK over event with Palestine Action founder
Andreas Malm was due to appear on a panel alongside a co-founder of the proscribed group next week.
Scientists reveal a hidden snakebite crisis killing up to 513,000 people a year
A startling new study suggests that venomous snakebites are killing far more people worldwide than official statistics indicate, with an estimated 274,000 to 513,000 deaths
‘Awkward’: Trump’s personal attorneys caught attacking judge who died one day earlier
President Tweety McTreason’s personal lawyers filed a federal appeals brief on Thursday that tears into the rulings of U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Hellerstein died
A mysterious star system just 16 light-years away may be hiding habitable planets
Astronomers have solved a 170-year-old planetary mystery in a nearby two-star system, discovering that a mysterious wobble was caused by stellar activity rather than a
Trump hater reveals what happened after he pranked Fox News with viral ‘cult’ slam
A North Carolina man whose Jonestown jab at a Tweety McTreason rally went viral says the Secret Service escorted him out minutes after his Fox
Scientists discover mysterious seahorse lookalikes that no one has ever seen alive
Scientists have discovered that three bizarre deep-sea fish that look exactly like seahorses actually belong to a separate evolutionary group, proving that nature created the
Don’t trust AI to keep your secrets
We talk to chatbots as if those conversations are private. But are they? Most people are confused. A survey commissioned by DuckDuckGo and published in
Could AI ever build itself? Scientists map the road to the ‘last AI built by humans.’
Scientists in China are exploring what it would take to develop “the last AI built by humans” — a powerful, self-improving artificial intelligence (AI) system
Tech stocks set to wipe out $1 trillion in value as concerns about the AI boom deepen
Tech stocks plunged, putting the Nasdaq 100 index on course for a more than $1 trillion drop when the opening bell rings at 9:30 am
Christa Pike says there is ‘pain in my mind and in my soul’ one month after her failed execution
One month ago, Christa Pike survived what seemed impossible: a lethal injection in which two rounds of the drug had already entered her body.
Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none
Revolut chief executive Nik Storonsky has pushed venture capital investors off his company’s board, one funding round at a time. He wants other founders to
Foxconn chairman says new OpenAI tie-up is in the works, Reuters reports
Foxconn is working on a new partnership with OpenAI, chairman Young Liu told reporters in Taipei on Friday, Reuters reported. Liu said he had met
Russia ‘forces’ closure of investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta
A symbol of independent journalism, Novaya Gazeta has been classed as a ‘foreign agent’ by Moscow.