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SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — Sydney’s Taronga Zoo welcomed the arrival of an Asian elephant calf on Friday (May 26), the first to be born there in nearly seven years, according to a statement. The unnamed male calf weighed in at 130 kilograms and was standing within five minutes of the birth, zoo staff confirmed. The zoo said that the latest arrival will be a second for mother Pak Boon, who delivered a female calf named […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — British researchers say their newly revealed method of predicting people’s ‘brain age’ could act as a wake-up call to those deemed at increased risk of poor health and early death. Dr James Cole, research associate at Imperial College London’s Department of Medicine, led the study which combined the publicly available data sets of at least 2,000 magnetic resonance imaging scans with machine learning algorithms. The technique helped Cole’s team provide […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Brace yourself, you are about to experience military combat. Using virtual reality, civilians can feel like they are part of the action as they pilot a Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft as part of a rescue mission. The mission – to extract a Navy SEAL team pinned down under enemy fire. The US Navy began using virtual reality simulations last October as a way to engage prospective recruits about careers […]
Reuters — Jupiter’s atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system’s largest planet, researchers said on Thursday (May 25), publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant. The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in […]
JILIN, China (Reuters) – Siberian tigers and Amur leopards are wild animals that are rarely seen, even in pictures. But with infrared cameras, more and more live images of these rare wild beasts are seen by the general public in northeast China’s Jilin Province. “When we first installed these cameras in 2013, we were just lucky enough to capture the image of tigers once a year. Now we tour these cameras every two months and we […]
by Catherine Triomphe Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – It was supposed to calm nerves, relieve stress and improve concentration but a new anti-fidget toy spreading fast through United States and European schools is whipping up anger among teachers on both sides of the Atlantic. Just months after the “fidget spinner” first whirled its way into the hands of antsy youngsters, some schools have already banned it — prompting a debate about difficulties […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A study of women in India who learned to read in their 30s shows the human brain’s incredible capacity to reorganize and transform itself, researchers said Wednesday. Researchers recruited women in India, a country with an illiteracy rate of around 39 percent, to see what they could learn about the areas of the brain devoted to reading. At the start of the study, most of the women could not read […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters) — Slouching over screens could be a thing of the past thanks to a wearable gadget that reminds you to sit up straight. The Upright pro is a small device taped to the back that senses poor posture and vibrates to nudge the user to straighten up. It can be synched with a smartphone app to track posture data over time, monitor the user’s progress in a training program, and share […]
By Rob Lever Agence France-Presse Was North Korea behind the ransomware epidemic that hit global computer networks earlier this month? That’s the subject of heated debate in cybersecurity circles after analysts found similarities in the “WannaCry” worm to other malware attributed to North Korea, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures and a cyberheist of millions of dollars from the Bangladesh central bank. The security firm Symantec this week said the shared code makes it […]
SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – China’s self-developed satellite payload test system made its maiden appearance at the eighth China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC). At the 2017 CNSC which opened Tuesday in Shanghai, a satellite payload test system developed by the National University of Defense Technology was displayed. The newly released system marks a landmark progress in the country’s satellite research and development. It broke a technological bottleneck because previous devices were custom-designed only. The test system […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Samsung Electronics is investigating claims by a German hacking group that it fooled the iris recognition system of the new flagship Galaxy S8 device, the firm said Wednesday. The launch of the Galaxy S8 was a key step for the world’s largest smartphone maker as it sought to move on from last year’s humiliating withdrawal of the fire-prone Galaxy Note 7s, which hammered the firm’s once-stellar reputation. But a video posted […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) – Google’s computer program AlphaGo beat the world’s top-ranked player in the ancient Chinese board game Go on Tuesday, re-affirming the arrival of what its developers tout as a ground-breaking new form of artificial intelligence. AlphaGo took the first encounter in a three-game series against brash 19-year-old Chinese world number one Ke Jie, who before the game called the program a “cold machine” and vowed never to play it again after this week. […]
