Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds

A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

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Steam is dealing with spam. Valve’s platform has been flooded with games stolen from itch.io

Toyota’s Gazoo Racing division has picked up a decrepit AE86

Plunging value and a content cliff edge: what’s gone wrong at Sky? Since Comcast takeover, broadcaster has slashed jobs and is losing the exclusive shows that drew subscribers

“Without the Champions League, nothing would be normal,”

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ProSiebenSat.1 has lined up defence advisers, including Morgan Stanley, after receiving a takeover bid from its largest investor MFE-MediaForEurope, the TV group controlled by Italy's Berlusconi family

images that correspond so well to the style of the films suggests that the AI model has been trained with the films from Studio Ghibli. The question now arises as to whether OpenAI was allowed to use the films for training

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Aktueller Status im "Coup-o-meter": A coup is in progress, but has not been consolidated

42,000 people died of Covid or Covid related complications – a death toll surpassed only by the two world wars. Yet the country has no worthy memorial to the victims

The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms

Nine is a deceptively simple demo breaking free of the Commodore 64's famous 8 hardware sprite limit. Its creator has made an accessible explanation of the numerous tricks used to make it possible

Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backups

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

Which Country has 18 out of 25 of the world's top landowners? When so much land and resources is owned by so few, what are the ramifications?

largest study yet into the effects of cannabis on the brains of 18- to 36-year-olds has found that the drug can reduce brain function during cognitive tests