In an opulent ballroom on a Saturday night, the classic pump-up anthem “Eye of the Tiger” blared as artificial intelligence enthusiasts tapped away on their keyboards. This was a hackathon — an event where participants have a set amount of time to collaborate on a project they present to the crowd — at a sprawling […]
19 hours ago By Rachelle Krygier and Laura García, BBC Monitoring and BBC Mundo Getty Fighters belonging to breakaway groups associated with Colombia’s largest rebel movement are posting videos on TikTok to entice young people to join them. The BBC has investigated the growth of guerrilla “recruitment” videos, with dissident factions yet to agree to a peace […]
Seven weeks after firing Darvin Ham, the Los Angeles Lakers landed on their next head coach on Thursday: JJ Redick, the 15-year NBA veteran turned podcaster and broadcaster, league sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Athletic. Redick is signing a four-year deal worth in the neighborhood of $8 million per season with […]
Macaque monkeys got on better with others in their social groups after a devastating hurricane, according to researchers. Researchers studied the impacts of a hurricane on a population of Rhesus macaques on an island off Puerto Rico. Temperatures are often around 40C so shade is a precious resource for macaques, since tree cover is still […]
A gang of cyber criminals causing huge disruption to multiple London hospitals has published sensitive patient data stolen from an NHS blood testing company. Overnight on Thursday, Qilin shared almost 400GB of the private information on their darknet site. The gang has been trying to extort money from NHS provider Synnovis since they hacked the […]
Jun 21, 2024, 04:38 PM ET The next Africa Cup of Nations finals have been put back six months and will now be played from Dec. 21, 2025 to Jan. 18, 2026, the Confederation of African (CAF) football announced on Friday. The 2025 tournament in Morocco was supposed to take place in mid-year but has […]
One of the most trusted sources of information about wildfires is an app that’s mostly run by volunteers and on a shoestring budget. It’s called Watch Duty, and it started in 2021 as a passion project of a Silicon Valley start-up founder, John Mills. He moved to a wildfire-prone area in Northern California and felt […]
ONE Championship launched in 2011 but for a long period had been seen as a promotion for the Far East. However, regular international shows, and a TV audience which spans 195 countries worldwide has made it a household name among fight fans. 2023 was the promotions busiest to date with more than 60 live shows […]
Some qualified GPs cannot find enough work even at a time of high patient demand for appointments, according to a doctors’ union. The British Medical Association (BMA) says it has heard from locum doctors in England who are struggling to get shifts at practices. Locums are used by practices to cover sickness or other absence […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and Lunar, a Danish neobank, recently launched a joint debit card for the airline’s users. The card will allow passengers to gain and use EuroBonus points, which can be used […]