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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Personality has become a more important factor than finances when it comes to dating, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of York and the University of Essex analyzed more than a million lonely hearts (personal) ads and found that in the U.S., France, and Canada, there was a sharp…

You’ve written books in multiple genres – psychological thrillers, romance, horror, and even parenting. Which genre makes you feel most creative and why? PREMIUM Author Kiran Manral (Courtesy the subject) I have always written as the story has taken me. Parenting, chick lit, humour and romance have been written when I was at a different phase in my life. Now I think the crazy and the outré obsess me and I tend to write strange, spooky haunting stories because I am constantly wondering about the what ifs and the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cryptomarkets—marketplaces on the dark web that can facilitate the sale of illicit goods between vendors and buyers—are proving to be attractive alternatives to traditional in-person drug dealing, according to Simon Fraser university researchers, who say machine learning and tracking markets through web crawlers may help curb the growing trend. …

A recent study by JD Power found that EV owners have become increasingly frustrated with their home charging experience for several reasons, including higher electricity rates and charging speeds. Declining home charging satisfaction among EV owners Inflation (via the Consumer Price Index) rose at the fastest rate in roughly 40 years following the pandemic, with the prices of everything from lumber to eggs soaring. Electricity rates were no safe haven. The latest Energy Information…

The details of OpenAI’s ChatGPT integrated into cybersecurity products are discussed in this section In the past few months, several cybersecurity businesses have disclosed that they began using ChatGPT in Cybersecurity or plan to do so, and some researchers have discovered practical applications for the chatbot. One of the first companies to announce that ChatGPT is Integrated into Cybersecurity Products, specifically GPT-3, company Orca. The objective is to enhance the cloud security risk remediation procedures offered…

REGIME TYPES BY NUMBER OF COUNTRIES AND SHARE OF POPULATION, 1972–2022. The number of countries (left panel) and the share of the world’s population (right panel) by regime type. Naturally, some uncertainty remains about the exact regime classification of some countries in some years. Credit: DEMOCRACY REPORT 2023 Defiance in the Face of Autocratization (2023). For the first time in two decades, there are more closed…

Credit: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya A study by the eLearning Innovation Center (eLinC) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), in partnership with Accenture, has provided an overview of the main trends in how young people consume digital content. The results show that the mobile phone is the primary tool for reading digital content for 70% of people aged between 14 and 35. …

From underground radar to better cameras for cars, established firms are increasingly benefitting from innovations developed at technology incubators. In turn, established companies are increasingly directly sponsoring or creating such incubators, sparking a growing trend in which innovative, early-stage startups are helped along their journey to successful products by the leading companies in the field. Just last week Swedish carmaker Volvo launched a new effort to support startups, focusing specifically on the…

Snow under burned trees from the Caldor fire. The new study shows that snow melted more rapidly during midwinter drought conditions within the footprints of wildfires. Credit: Anne Heggli, DRI The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California's worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies and wide swaths of burned landscape. Some of the impacts of these fires are well known, including drastic…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many women and men still work in sex-typed occupations. One important reason for this is that men are selectively leaving occupations that are increasingly taken up by women, a recent study from the University of Zurich has shown. This could explain swings in the sex compositions of jobs and why some specializations within occupations become female or male-dominated.…