The dispute points to a much bigger question surrounding the rapid development of AI. A debate over whether artificial intelligence could have something resembling consciousness has put Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI companies, at odds with the Vatican after Pope Leo XIV rejected the idea that machines could replace or surpass human beings.The…
NEW YORK: The woman who accused members of a Cornell University fraternity of gang rape was “failed” by people obligated to protect her, including campus police and county prosecutor, New York governor Kathy Hochul said Friday.Hochul said at a news conference that she decided to appoint attorney general Letitia James as a special prosecutor to…
Tim PeakePhoto credit: Esa.int ESA astronaut Tim Peake took 2kg of rocket seeds to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015 as part of his six-month Principia mission. The seeds endured intense vibrations from launch and spaceflight and received up to 100 times more radiation than they would have experienced on Earth. After returning in…
Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal addresses the US Indian Community Foundation event India is building a network of free trade relationships that could eventually cover nearly 75-80 per cent of the world’s economies, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said in Chicago, pitching the country as an expanding base for global trade and…
A North Carolina artist once walked into a Goodwill store looking for inexpensive material for her own artwork and walked out with what would turn out to be a valuable piece of American abstraction. Beth Feeback paid just $9.99 for a large painting in 2012, not because she admired the artwork, but because she wanted…
Shannon Burns, an American technology executive and former Gitpod vice-president of engineering, is at the centre of a legal battle that could become one of the biggest employment compensation cases in the UK. Recent reports by The Independent, and The Guardian, alongside employment tribunal records, show that Burns is pursuing £76,071,992 from Gitpod after winning…
DHAKA: Bangladesh govt has extended the official Durga Puja holidays to three days in response to a longstanding demand of the Hindu community as well as strengthened security measures after seven under-construction idols at a temple in Mirzapur were recently vandalised.Officials said govt, on directions of PM Tarique Rahaman, increased funding for major puja mandaps…
A tragic accident occurred when a food packet dropped from an IAF helicopter, fatally striking local vendor Anil Kumar Singh (Representative image) PATNA: A relief operation turned into a nightmare when a food packet allegedly dropped from an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter hit Anil Kumar Singh alias Appu Singh (62), a local hawker, killing…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress MP and leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched “Satyagraha,” a digital platform aimed at consolidating information on various issue-based protests taking place across the country.The website was launched a day after the 157th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, whose philosophy of “Satyagraha”…
Two Iowa farmers have transformed their family’s former hog operation into a speciality mushroom business, turning infrastructure once built for thousands of pigs into spaces for growing lion’s mane and oyster mushrooms. The Faaborg family, which once raised about 8,000 hogs a year, ended its animal-farming contract in October 2022 after decades in the industry….
