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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Social influence from phone communications is significant, reaching as far as four degrees of separation from the original caller, according to a new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, who developed a new framework to more precisely study the phenomenon. The researchers…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Reading about climate-induced immigration prompted negative, nativist attitudes among people toward the affected migrants—an unintended, perhaps even paradoxical effect of many delivering the original messages, according to researchers at the University of Michigan and elsewhere. The findings, the…

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Geoffrey Hinton should have spoken up years ago when others like Timnit Gebru were criticizing Google over LLMs; hopefully Hinton spurs others to speak up now — It is hard not to be worried when the so-called godfather of artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, says he is leaving Google and regrets his life's work. Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Geoffrey Hinton should have spoken up years ago when others like Timnit Gebru were criticizing Google over LLMs; hopefully Hinton…

Bitcoin's rebound is just the start of a rally that will take it past $50,000 next year courtesy of a process known as halving that curbs the supply of new tokens, according to projections from crypto analysts.The largest digital asset has climbed 70% since Dec. 31 in a partial revival from an epic rout in 2022. While the token at the moment is struggling in the vicinity of $30,000, halving holds the potential to trigger an advance of at least 78%, according to Bloomberg Intelligence and Matrixport. A halving – or…

Mason Burns was walking through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Wednesday night when he noticed something moving out of the corner of his eye. What he saw made him do a double-take before pulling out his phone to record it.Dozens of rats scurried across the alley and through puddles, sniffing around several dumpsters and rooting through torn plastic bags."I have never seen that many rats in one place," said Burns. The video was taken near Columbia and Hastings Streets on Wednesday night, and while Burns wasn't too…

A surge in rocket launches has spurred U.S. flight-safety officials to rethink how they permit such flights, aiming to better manage airspace near launch sites. A surge in rocket launches has spurred U.S. flight-safety officials to rethink how they permit such flights, aiming to better manage airspace near launch sites.…

The late E. Hunter Harrison, who ran four of North America’s major railroads, is credited with transforming the railroad industry by spreading a philosophy of aggressive cost-cutting.But criticism of that philosophy, known as precision-scheduled railroading, or PSR, has grown since the February derailment of a Norfolk Southern Corp. NSC 1.51% train that released hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio. Members of…

Robust growth, high digital penetration  The role of AI governance will become even more significant as Asia’s digital economy continues to grow. While a tech slowdown has dogged the U.S.—with more than 91,000 workers laid off in 2022—Asia seems unfazed. According to a Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company report in October 2022, Southeast Asia’s leading digital economies likely amounted to S$ 200 billion (US$ 149 billion) in 2022, marking a 20% increase from 2021. Far from this being a short-term growth spurt, the…

Oil palm producer Presco Plc logged its peak turnover since 2011 as Russia-Ukraine war disrupted the global supply chain of sunflower oil, details of the firm’s 2022 financials have shown. According to the company’s financials for the 2022 fiscal year, revenue took a leap to N83.1 billion from N47.4 billion the previous year. The increase is backed by expanded production from the 39,500 hectares providing raw materials for its core product palm oil, an ingredient for nearly half of products found on supermarket…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Publicly available salary information prompts organizations to reduce the gender pay gap, according to a new study from the University of California San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. The research counters previous assumptions that salary transparency creates more equal pay because…