The latest PISA assessment presents an unusually stark picture of educational performance. More than 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 participating countries and economies were assessed, producing evidence of broad declines in some
India’s space programme is entering a new phase, but a difficult question is emerging alongside its ambitions: can the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) be expected to concentrate on the country’s most
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Anthropic is testing a new software standard designed to allow artificial intelligence assistants such as Claude to interact more effectively with robots, scientific instruments and manufacturing hardware, marking a significant step in
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Hong Kong is expanding the use of artificial intelligence on its 1823 inquiry and complaint platform in an effort to reduce waiting times, improve the handling of cases and strengthen governance, but
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned of the growing social risks posed by artificial intelligence, arguing that governments and policymakers still lack a concrete plan for containing the technology’s potential dangers. In
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For many parents, the first months with a newborn are among the happiest and most important periods of their lives. For Manuel*, they became a nightmare. In his mid-30s, living with his
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What if the greatest political danger of artificial intelligence is not that machines become more powerful than humans, but that humans become increasingly unwilling to share the wealth those machines create? That
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Through burial practice, it is believed that the living create, affirm, and transform social relationships with those who have passed. Interring the dead in settlements, sometimes even below house floors, makes ancestors
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A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds, beating the men’s world record held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt, in a preliminary heat at the World Humanoid Robot
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Australia has confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal, after the highly pathogenic virus was detected in a long-nosed fur seal in South Australia, authorities said on Sunday.
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In Karur, near the southern tip of India, the rise of artificial intelligence is visible not only in technology but in the hundreds of young people who fill the city’s streets during
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