Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The more our media channels are flooded with deep fakes ... various kinds, the more we have the feeling of sinking i... quicksand.

Last Wednesday was a landmark moment for the tech industry, or at any rate for that part of it that aspires to do business in the EU. It was the day when six of the biggest companies in the world had to start complying with the EU’s Digit...

Lord Blunkett, education secretary from 1997 to 2001, added: “Sure Start was always one of those programmes that the public yearned for, but politicians rarely deliver. Namely, a long-term policy without short-term electoral gain, but tra...

The other striking story from this year’s results is the huge and growing popularity of maths, which becomes the first A-level to exceed 100,000 entries, while 17,000 pupils took further maths, making it the subject with the biggest year-...

Herrington, a Dutch sustainability researcher and adviser to the Club of Rome, a Swiss thinktank, has made headlines in recent days after she authored a report that appeared to show a controversial 1970s study predicting the collapse of civ...

Inspired by Ed Hawkins’ climate stripes, the new air quality stripes show air pollution from 1850 to today. Each year is a separate vertical bar that is coloured according to the amount of particle pollution. Air that meets World Health O...

Nuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it?

The first piece of advice was: “You should mostly eat food you know is healthy. There is no magic food.”
And the second? That was: “You should also occasionally let yourself eat delicious food you know isn’t healthy. Otherwise, what...

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories?

And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make up 8.4% of those working in film, TV, radio and photography, while in museums, arch...

So Gagne studied for a PhD, and became a therapist. She thinks her detachment was helpful. “If you are constantly projecting your own emotions into the session, they’re not going to be able to process what they’re feeling.”

My theory was that all the physical places interconnected by apps had a way of resembling one another. In the case of the cafes, the growth of Instagram gave international cafe owners and baristas a way to follow one another in real time an...

Using brain imaging, scientists have built a map displaying how words and their meanings are represented across different regions of the brain

rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows

Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results fr... journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to ... research

Besides altering the quality of our memories, switching ... can influence people’s financial decision-making and t... moral dilemmas. By speaking a second language, we can ev... rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal w...

An internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been thrown into a skip.
More than 200 shells have been returned to Engli...

Each participant was presented with a three-word starting sentence that flashed up for 300ms, followed by a second sentence that was either identical or differed by one word. Participants were asked to indicate whether the sentences matched...

Scientists show it is possible to control a virtual car and switch on real-world kettle from inside a lucid dream

Child psychology studies have identified a natural human bias toward the theory of intelligent design, and pose a solution: teach evolution earlier

Hancock said people who walked three to five times a week, for an average of 130 minutes a week, remained pain-free for nearly twice as long compared with those who did not receive any treatment.
Taking regular steps also improved their qua...

The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up

An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised ... computers to interpret everyday language has been shown ... gender and racial biases.
The findings raise the spectre of existing social inequa ...

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

“At this point, Big Tech companies need to be saved fr... companies and their top AI developers are well aware of ... generative AI. But they are in a competitive arms race a... themselves unable to slow down,”

Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has w...

When Google announced it was integrating AI-generated summaries into its search engine earlier this year, it brandished a bold slogan: “Let Google do the searching for you.” It’s an appealing idea that plays on our fondness for conven...

Air fryers that gather your personal data and audio speakers “stuffed with trackers” are among examples of smart devices engaged in “excessive” surveillance, according to the consumer group Which?

The UK is being urged by Europe’s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with strategies to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite continued tensions over the issue.
The Council of Europe ...

Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe