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Sound Agriculture CTO Travis Bayer (L) and CEO Adam Litle (R). Sound Agriculature California startup Sound Agriculture is launching a pilot project with its new tomato, which it says has been bred quickly using epigenetic techniques to be…

Sciences Po, one of France's top universities, has banned the use of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that can generate coherent prose, to prevent fraud and plagiarism.ChatGPT is a free programme that generates original…

JioCinema is celebrating a new record as digital viewership overtook cable TV for the first time during a global sports season, as per the service. According to the telecommunications company, a whopping 32 million viewers tuned into its…

Elon Musk recently banned Twitter accounts of various journalists for "doxxingreal-time location information" and calling it "inappropriate." However, two days after the incident, the company CEO posted that he was at the Lusail Stadium in…

Nearly 500 metres below the surface at the Cigéo nuclear research labChristine Ro Rainer Baake, the managing director of the Climate Neutrality Foundation in Germany, puts it bluntly. “Why would anyone invest in nuclear?” he wonders.…

Financial messaging system SWIFT has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies.The trial, which involved France and Germany's…

Crypto.com has been granted approval by the regulators in France to provide digital asset services in the country, the crypto exchange announced on Wednesday. The cryptocurrency platform reports that it went through rigorous review,…

Nearly 42 percent of the country is in a continued drought this week, with several states considered ... in extreme drought. Farmers and ranchers are now forced to take drastic steps as a result of the conditions. Getty…

As I type this, heat records are being shattered in Europe. Minutes ago, the UK Met Office tweeted, “A temperature of 39.1°C has provisionally been recorded at Charlwood, Surrey. If confirmed this will be the highest temperature ever…

Replica plaquettes were placed next to a fire to see how ambient light made stone carvings of animals appear to move. Needham et al., 2022, PLOS ONE…