Electric vehicles dominated Norway’s new car sales in 2024, capturing 88.9% market share versus 82.4% in 2023, the Norwegian Road Federation said. Tesla led sales, followed by Volkswagen and Toyota, as the Nordic nation approaches its 2025 goal of selling only zero-emission vehicles.
Scientists have discovered that great whales can live well beyond previously estimated lifespans, according to research published in Science Advances. The study found that southern right whales can survive past 130 years, while their heavily hunted northern counterparts rarely live beyond 47 years. The findings support earlier evidence from Arctic Read more…
Generation Beta, starting in 2025 and lasting until around 2039, will grow up deeply immersed in AI and smart technology, facing pressing societal challenges like climate change and global shifts while potentially being shielded from excessive screen time by tech-savvy Gen Z parents. Start and end dates of generations can Read more…
Alibaba is cutting prices on its large language models by up to 85% to attract more enterprise users and strengthen its position in China’s competitive AI market. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce firm’s cloud computing division, Alibaba Cloud, said in a WeChat post that it’s offering the price cuts on its visual Read more…
AI ethicists are cautioning that the rise of AI may bring with it the commodification of even one’s motivations. Researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence say — in a paper published Monday in the Harvard Data Science Review journal — the rise of Read more…
One possible reason that things aren’t going according to plan is that there never was a plan in the first place.
Research from Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University reveals a concerning correlation between micro and nanoplastic (MNP) concentrations in damaged human tissues and various health conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, thrombosis, and cancer. In the study, “Mapping micro(nano)plastics in various organ systems: Their emerging links to human diseases?” published in TrAC Read more…