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Monday, 2 November 2026
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Global impunity for journalist killings has risen for the first time in more than a decade, while the growing use of drones is an emerging threat for reporters in conflict zones, according to the latest report from UN cultural organization UNESCO.
Scientists have discovered that lysosomes, structures traditionally viewed as the cell's recycling centers, also play a role in regulating the heart's natural rhythm.
Internet rights advocates and Lula da Silva campaigners challenge Meta’s alleged shadow banning Originally published on Global Voices Screenshot from the naosemeta.com.br landing page.
Credit: NASA Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.
Competition between small-scale fishers and industrial vessels can threaten food security and livelihoods in coastal communities especially in the Global South.
Along Zanzibar’s coastline, thousands of women rise with the tides to cultivate one of our islands’ most important natural resources.
At COP31, nations will try to find agreement on various issues, including climate finance for developing countries and a global “just transition” towards a cleaner economy.
Iran said Monday it had a two-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear talks with the United States, shortening a process originally expected to take seven days.
An international research team led by Curtin University has for the first time uncovered unequivocal evidence of fossilized red blood cells and amino acids of collagen, reshaping our understanding of fossil preservation and molecular longevity in deep time.
The X500 Pro Max is the first Vivo flagship to sit between its Pro and Ultra tiers.
The study, published in Global Ecology and Conservation, used camera-trap data from between 2013 and 2019 to investigate whether an award-winning community-based ecotourism initiative that has operated tours in Nam Ha National Protected Area since 1999 brings any benefits to local wildlife populations by creating
Global warming, the observed increase in Earth's average global surface temperature since preindustrial times (1850–1900), currently stands at around 1.63 degrees Celsius.
Lidl's media account will move from Havas Media to OMD, revealed to ECO/+M a well-known source of the contest.
A conta de meios do Lidl vai passar da Havas Media para a OMD, revelou ao ECO/+M uma fonte conhecedora do concurso.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.I decided to try running those numbers again to see what had changed over the past year, and in doing so learned that the Bureau has fallen foul of Executive Order 14434 , aka the asinine Super Intelligence one.
Exceeding 1.5C of global warming will have "irreversible" consequences for glaciers, sea ice and the Earth's frozen regions, two U.N.
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to generate realistic panoramic images for virtual tourism.
Original text · English translation unavailableDemocrats sought on Monday, November 2, to contain a rift in Michigan's US Senate race after one of their own crossed party lines to endorse the Republican candidate, as both parties made final pitches before midterm elections that will decide control of Congress.
Insider Brief Equal1 has appointed Andrew Flynn as Chief Operating Officer to lead operations as the company scales commercialisation of its RacQ rack-mounted quantum computer.
The head of the International Olympic Committee discusses the significance of Africa hosting the Youth Olympic Games.
Diesel prices ease to $6.29 per gallon, offering slight relief amid a global fuel demand squeeze.
Tehran on Monday said that the country was holding "intensive" indirect talks with Washington to avoid a fresh round of US attacks on Iran ahead of the US midterm elections this week.
Karl Bushby, a British man who traveled 50,000 km without transport over the past 28 years, has come home.
Egypt on Monday raised more than 650 million dollars in its initial public offering of the state-owned Banque du Caire.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Monday for greater protection for civilians caught in conflict in northern Ethiopia following deadly drone strikes this past weekend.
Many of the same questions that provoke our imagination about our universe today were asked by the ancients. How did the universe begin? What is it made of? etc. What is particularly interesting is how the ancients addressed the question of how to get something from nothingness, and ultimately how the notion of the aether evolved. In this lecture I discuss the ancient greek philosophers’ ideas of the stuff of matter and the origin of the universe, and contrast that with our modern understanding. While our modern picture of the universe is vastly different than that of the ancients and we dispe
Nebius CTO Danila Shtan joins Jacob Effron to talk about what it takes to run an AI cloud at the frontier, and why he thinks the hyperscalers haven’t won this market yet. Today Nebius is a Nasdaq-listed AI cloud with infrastructure deals with Microsoft and Meta. Danila and Jacob discuss why open-model inference is still far from optimized, why 95% of Nebius customers run modified models instead of vanilla ones, and why prefill/decode disaggregation is more talk than practice. They also cover what’s actually constraining the AI buildout, why chip scarcity has kept AWS and Google from winning AI
Economics often starts with an assumption that people are rational maximizers of their own self-interest; but it doesn't stop there. Economists do understand that sometimes people are irrational, altruistic, or just random. So how can we understand how people actually do behave in economic circumstances? Colin Camerer is a pioneer of "neuroeconomics" -- not only understanding how people make economic choices, but relating it to processes in the brain. Blog post with transcript: https://preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/11/02/373-colin-camerer-on-the-neuroscience-of-economic-thinking/ Liste
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