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By Rosa SULLEIRO BARCELONA, April 12, 2024 (AFP) – Scientists at a United Nations conference in Spain called Friday for more research into the sharp rise in ocean temperatures which they warn could have devastating consequences. “The changes are happening so fast that we are not able to keep pace with the impact,” the executive secretary of UNESCO’s intergovernmental oceanographic commission, Vidar Helgesen, told AFP on the sidelines of the three-day “Ocean Decade” conference in […]
PARIS, Aug 28, 2023 (AFP) – Silicon Valley’s favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction. But increasingly vocal critics are warning that the philosophy is dangerous, and the obsession with extinction distracts from real problems associated with AI like data theft and biased algorithms. Author Emile Torres, a former longtermist turned critic of the movement, told AFP that the philosophy rested on the kind […]
By Jonah Mandel Agence France-Presse EYAL, Israel, June 28, 2023 (AFP) – As climate change and global population growth pose ever greater challenges for agriculture, Israeli technology offers a wealth of inventions and advanced tools to help farmers adapt. At an avocado orchard in a kibbutz in central Israel, a tractor slowly pulls a device through the trees. Flag-sized attachments that evoke canoe paddles on the mobile platform gently stroke the plants to draw the […]
By Delphine Matthieussent Agence France-Presse REHAN, Palestinian Territories, June 27, 2023 (AFP) — As dawn broke over the occupied West Bank, Mamoun Abu al-Rob and his son crossed into Israel, where a volunteer was waiting to take them to a hospital. Past the Rehan crossing in the northern West Bank, where Palestinian workers were passing through a dimly lit corridor, Abu al-Rob walked towards Yael Noy’s car as his six-year-old son, Adam, dozed in his […]
By Glenda KWEK Agence France-Presse MUMBAI, June 26, 2023 (AFP) — India’s first population clock, made up of 10 white numbered cards on a large green metal board, attracts curious passersby who watch it record the story of the world’s most populous nation. The clock — manually updated every day according to projected estimates and akin to a cricket scoreboard in appearance — was first erected in 1982 when India was home to more than […]
By Anastasia CLARK Agence France-Presse EXMOUTH, United Kingdom, June 23, 2023 (AFP) — A leisure centre in Exmouth, southwest England, is using a small data centre to heat its indoor swimming pool, trialling an innovative solution that reduces its energy bills and carbon footprint. An on-site installation captures heat generated by a bank of computers, bringing the 25-metre swimming pool to the required temperature around 65 percent of the time, cutting reliance on gas boilers. […]
By Andrey BORODULIN Agence France-Presse SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine, June 23, 2023 (AFP) – Selling lavender at a train station in Ukraine’s Russian-annexed Crimea, Tatyana Bocharnikova said she was unfazed by the fighting or potential water supply cuts after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. “The wells are full of water, the river is too and the reservoirs are full,” the 64-year-old said in the peninsula’s regional capital, Simferopol. The Kakhovka dam creates a reservoir which feeds […]
By Ammu KANNAMPILLY Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, June 23, 2023 (AFP) — Her nephew shared the harrowing tale of how she died. The 45-year-old mother of five had not eaten in days and begged for a sip of water as she lay dying in a hospital in Ethiopia’s war-scarred Tigray region. She struggled to swallow, her muscles weakened from prolonged starvation, as droplets dribbled down her chin, he said. She died four days later — the […]
By Lisa Martin and Pitcha Dangprasith Agence France-Presse BAN KHUN SAMUT CHIN, Thailand, June 23, 2023 (AFP) – Each morning, four children stand barefoot in a line and proudly sing the national anthem as the Thai flag is raised outside their school, perched on a finger of land surrounded by the sea. They are the last pupils left at the school in Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village less than 10 kilometres (six miles) […]
By Alexandre MARTINS LOPES Agence France-Presse LAGOS, June 22, 2023 (AFP) — At the very last second, the Lagos professional gamer wins his battle of “Street Fighter”, sending the crowd into roars of joy, a scene unimaginable a few years ago in Nigeria, where the eSports is now in full bloom. In a room decked out in futuristic decor in an upscale district of Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos, several thousand visitors gathered for a giant […]
By Claudia Tenorio and Alexander Martinez Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, June 21, 2023 (AFP) — Voice actors around the globe are mobilizing against the unregulated use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and clone human voices that they fear poses a threat to their livelihoods. “We’re fighting a very big monster,” said Mario Filio, a Mexican artist who has done voiceovers for Hollywood star Will Smith, the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in Star Wars and the […]
By John HADOULIS Agence France-Presse ATHENS, June 20, 2023 (AFP) — Wildfires, floods and climate change have failed to budge Greeks towards voting Green for over a decade, but a new coalition hopes to break through deep-rooted skepticism in Sunday’s national elections. While environmental parties surge elsewhere in Europe, Greeks “view the environment as a little bit of a luxury,” says Vasiliki Grammatikogianni, a co-chair of the Green and Purple alliance. A ‘Green wave’ that […]
