A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Read more…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being tapped to address the impacts of climate change. From a report: Google’s latest announcement is one example. Countries across Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and South and Central America can now use its AI-enabled platform that displays flood forecasts. Starting Monday, governments, aid organizations and Read more…
Facebook owner Meta was hit by a record $1.3 billion European Union privacy fine and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the prying eyes of American security services. The social network giant’s continued data transfers Read more…
India’s government gave nearly early household a bank account offering app-based digital money transfers, reports the Economist. But that’s just the beginning: Take a walk on Mumbai’s Juhu beach and little has changed in five years — except for the QR codes adorning every food stall. Go to São Paulo Read more…
“The first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) down in the Atlantic, has been created using deep-sea mapping,” reports the BBC. Their article includes a one-minute video showing the results. “It provides a unique 3D view of the entire ship, enabling it to be seen as Read more…
New research reveals that New York City is sinking, primarily due to the weight of its tall buildings, exacerbating the threat of flooding from rising sea levels. The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each Read more…
A trash can overflowing with disposable drink cups is an all-too-familiar sight outside any high-traffic cafe or fast-food joint. It was during a lunch-time walk in Melbourne that colleagues Aniyo Rahebi and Catherine Hutchins passed by several such eyesores and decided to combat the piles of waste. A few months Read more…