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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Over the period 1970–2016, small publishing houses became increasingly important for the publication of literature in translation in Sweden. More than ever, Nobel laureates are being published by relatively small independent publishers. A specialization in translations often stems from a publisher's personal interest in a language or geographical area. These conclusions are drawn in a doctoral thesis…

New York Times: UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition to combat shoplifting, something critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes — British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. New York Times: UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition to combat shoplifting, something critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor…

Credit: Shutterstock/Sophie Dover We are witnessing a resurgence of Indigenous knowledge and growing acknowledgement of its scientific value worldwide. In Aotearoa, there's been some progress, including the introduction of a public holiday to mark Matariki, the beginning of a new year in maramataka—the Māori calendar based on the…

Credit: Shutterstock Car theft is on the rise, according to AA Insurance Services. Worryingly, thieves are increasingly using high-tech tools to target weaknesses in the same sensors and computerized systems that were designed to help make our journeys safer and more comfortable. In fact, as the…

Influence of ENSO on tropical land water–carbon coupling. a, Year-to-year variations of spatial coherence of tropical WS anomaly and ENSO. All years are classified into three subsets according to the level of spatial coherence: low level (0th to 33.3th percentile); medium level (33.3th to 66.6th percentile); and high level (66.6th to 100th percentile). Year is considered Eastern Pacific (EP) ENSO when the largest DJF SST anomaly over the region of 2° …

While blue, Democratic states are becoming bluer, red, Republican-leaning states are becoming more conservative. Credit: Matt Champlin The United States is an increasingly polarized country when it comes to politics—but one thing that almost all people want is to live a long, healthy life. More and more Americans are moving from…

As companies like Google and Facebook grew into giants in the early 21st century, regulators chose largely not to interfere in the still-young market for online services.Now regulators have reversed course: When it comes to tech, they want to see into the future and beat companies to getting there.The decision by British authorities Wednesday to block Microsoft's $69 billion bid for the video game giant Activision Blizzard exemplified the new approach. British officials said a core reason for rejecting the deal was how it…

On this list are various groups of people. Please select any that you would not like to have as neighbors (% who mention group). Credit: Love thy neighbour? Public trust and acceptance of the people who live alongside us (2023) The UK now has some of the highest levels of neighborhood trust internationally, while Britons have also become much more comfortable with having neighbors who belong to historically marginalized…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Faults in the Ridgecrest, California area were very sensitive to solid earth tidal stresses in the year and a half before the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, researchers reported at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)'s 2023 Annual Meeting. "The signal of tidal modulation becomes…

The MCU has been confounding and surprising audiences ever since Iron Man. For the most part, the 2008 movie stuck fairly close to Tony Stark’s comic-book origins, only to surprise audiences with a final scene in which the notion of a secret identity was tossed out of the window as Stark admitted “I am Iron Man”. Roll credits. But, as of late, the MCU has gotten a teeny bit too predictable. Even with the advent of the multiverse we haven’t gotten a huge surprise or twist in any recent movies. Maybe the dusty old…