May 09, 2024 05:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Its been seven years since the launch of Replika, an artificially intelligent chatbot designed to be a friend to human users. Despite early warnings about the dangers of such AI friends, interest in friendships and even...
Heat is coming for our crops. We have to make them ready
May 09, 2024 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Nature
Australias vital agriculture sector will be hit hard by steadily rising global temperatures. Our climate is already prone to droughts and floods. Climate change is expected to supercharge this, causing sudden flash...
Paris in spring, Bali in winter. How ‘bucket lists’ help cancer patients handle life and death
May 09, 2024 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In the 2007 film The Bucket List Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two main characters who respond to their terminal cancer diagnoses by rejecting experimental treatment. Instead, they go on a range of energetic,...
Photos are everywhere. What makes a good one?
May 09, 2024 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
We upload some 3 billion images online each day. We make most of these photos on smartphones and use these devices to document everything from gym progress and our loved ones to a memorable meal. But what makes a...
Loblaws boycott: What consumer psychology can tell us about the success of consumer activism
May 09, 2024 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Loblaws has found itself at the centre of public frustration due to soaring food prices. Canadians have expressed their discontent on social media, venting about the high cost of groceries at grocery stores like...
Could Biden stop Netanyahu’s plans? A national security expert looks at Israel’s attack on Rafah
May 08, 2024 11:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
Israel entered Rafah, a city that marks Gazas southern border crossing with Egypt, on May 7, 2024, launching a military offensive that the U.S. and others have cautioned Israel not to pursue. President Joe Biden warned...
Iran is gaining credibility in the Muslim world and feeling emboldened
May 08, 2024 11:06 am UTC| Insights & Views
Irans leadership has been a direct beneficiary of the months-long war in Gaza. With every missile that Israel fires on Gaza, every US veto of a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution, and every arrest of an anti-war...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects