The Taliban have imposed a nationwide telecommunications shutdown in Afghanistan, severing fibre-optic connections and cutting off internet, mobile, and satellite services as part of “morality” measures. Netblock is currently tracking the outages. The BBC reports: Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have imposed numerous restrictions in accordance with their Read more…
The internet is full of people claiming to uncover conspiracies in politics and business. Now an unlikely new villain has been added to the list: theoretical physicists, is the major attraction of what might be called ‘conspiracy physics’. In recent years, a group of YouTubers and podcasters have attracted millions Read more…
Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin, in the second nationwide vote on the issue. In a referendum on Sunday, 50.4% of voters supported an electronic ID card, while 49.6% were against, confounding pollsters who had forecast stronger support for the “yes” vote. Turnout Read more…
As awareness grows around the dangers of head trauma in sports, a small number of professional fighters and football players are turning to a psychedelic called ibogaine for treatment, tout its ability to treat addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Ibogaine, which is derived from a Read more…
It’s the world’s largest companies by revenue. But Walmart’s executives have a blunt message, “Artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and reshape its workforce.” “It’s very clear that AI is going to change literally every job,” Chief Executive Doug McMillon said this week in one of the most pointed assessments Read more…
Six months ago California had 48% more public and “shared” private EV chargers than gasoline nozzles. (In March California had 178,000 public and shared private EV chargers, versus about 120,000 gas nozzles.) Since then they’ve added 23,000 more public/shared charging ports — and announced this week that there’s now 68% Read more…
A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that the human species began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study. It also shows that we co-existed with other sister species, including Neanderthals, for much longer than we’ve come Read more…