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When did you last remember a phone number? The quiet cost of letting AI do the thinking
Handing a mental task to a machine is convenient. Done often enough, experts warn, the judgement you were exercising stops getting…
Technology
The Amazon has lost 240 million acres of primary forest — the size of Texas and California together
Fifteen per cent of the Amazon’s primary forest is permanently gone. The researchers say the real story is not a looming tipping point but…
Technology
More than 80 per cent get a fake message every week, and the volume itself is what makes the next one work
The research finding that matters is not how many scams arrive. It is that being alerted constantly erodes the ability to tell a real…
Health
“Ferritin face” has millions of views, and doctors say you cannot read iron levels off a photograph
The trend is wrong about the method and right that iron deficiency is under-diagnosed. Separating those two is the whole job, because…
Technology
A camera in the milking parlour spots a lame cow before the farmer can, and the farmer has been watching cows for fifty years
Northern Irish dairy farms are running cameras, robotic milking and record-keeping apps. What made it possible was not the AI — it was…
Technology
A software developer got sick of roadside rubbish and built a dashcam that counts it — 28,000 reports later
One phone on a dashboard, a photo every ten seconds, and a complaint turned into a dataset. The interesting part is not the AI — it is what…
World
Gabon has switched social media back on after eight months, in a country where blackouts were the old government’s habit
Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are reachable again for 2.5 million people. The eight months in between are a short lesson in what…
World
An Indian cartoonist vanished from Instagram inside his own country, twice in three weeks, with no explanation
Political satire has moved online in India, and so has the machinery for restricting it. The cartoonists get no reason, no notice and no…
World
Solar has quietly overtaken nuclear worldwide, and Pakistan went from 2 per cent to 24 per cent out of people’s own pockets
A decade ago solar was 1 per cent of world electricity. This year it reaches about 10 per cent and passes nuclear. The part that matters…
World
A crime map drawn from where police already looked: researchers warn AI policing can prove itself right
Predictions of future crime are trained on past police records. Where those records reflect where officers were sent rather than where…
Bangladesh
Two Lenovo LOQ gaming laptops reach Bangladesh at Tk 2,17,000 and Tk 2,25,000 — and the cheaper one has the better GPU
Same processor, same memory, same screen. One carries an RTX 5060, the other an RTX 5050. Check which model number you are being quoted…
World
A new French literary prize is only for AI-assisted books, and you must submit your prompts with the manuscript
A month after France’s Goncourt prize dropped a novel over AI allegations, three entrepreneurs have created an award that requires the…