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It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other hominins went extinct. Yet how and when Homo sapiens dispersed out of Africa, and whether it was an abrupt event, is still debated. Even more uncertain is how and when humans ...
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Customer support automation used to mean rigid chatbots, scripted menus, and irrelevant help centre links. That is changing fast. Platforms like Zendesk, Intercom, and Freshworks now use large language models to understand customer questions, search company knowledge, complete basic actions, an...
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A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties
Waymo made a virtual driver called ReD to help its robotaxis avoid accidents.
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Three decades after John McCain assailed mixed martial arts as 'human cockfighting,'' the UFC is heading to the White House for an unpredented event.
Prime Minister Modi will lead the 11th NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting, focusing on "Inclusive Human Development for Viksit Bharat @2047. " Chief ministers and officials will discuss strategies for foundational human capital, employment, health, and equity.
For fifty years, programming languages and tools were optimized for one thing, making code legible to the humans writing it. Coding agents break that assumption. The forgiving types, terse errors, and prose-like syntax that feel good to human authors are the opposite of what agents need, which ...
More than 100 members of the Castellers de Vilafranca built a 10-metre-high human tower to welcome Pope Leo
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The Art Directors Guild released a statement on social media on Tuesday condemning Martin Scorsese’s recent partnership with AI startup Black Forest Labs. In the statement, the guild accused one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors of “turning his back on the human artists who throughout his...
The Wonder founder is automating fast-casual food with machines that make salad and poke bowls, sauces, and eventually drinks but there are few roles for humans in these kitchens.
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10. 1038/s41586-026-10631-3 Tumour network mapping of diffuse midline glioma (DMG) defines a conserved and prognostically important brain network in children with DMG, consistent with the hypothesis that DMGs exploit otherwise healthy brain circuits to ...
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10. 1038/s41586-026-10611-7 A global annual migration-flow dataset (1990–2024) is produced using deep-learning models and diverse sources to estimate movements across 230 countries with improved temporal resolution, coverage and uncertainty estimates.
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10. 1038/s41586-026-10661-x Structures of the distinct binding poses of three agonistic peptide toxins—bullet-ant-derived toxin δ-paraponeritoxin-Pc1a, cone snail ι-conotoxin RXIA and the globular β-scorpion toxin Cn2—on the human Nav1. 6–β1 channel com...
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-01796-y Modelling with artificial-intelligence tools has filled gaps in migration data, revealing detailed global population movements from 1990 to 2023.
With 'Disclosure Day,' Steven Spielberg has gone off his rocker a little bit, and magnificently so
Researchers have discovered dozens of headless human skeletons in a ditch in Slovakia, which they believe date back 7,000 years.