A transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leadership has named one of its members as council president and proposed a new interim prime minister amid efforts to control the gang violence in the Caribbean nation. The council, which is responsible for paving the way for elections and addressing the country’s deteriorating security situation, on Tuesday named Edgard Leblanc Fils ...
A nearly 300-year-old settlement once submerged beneath a major dam in the Philippines has reemerged as sweltering heat and drought dry up the reservoir. Structures, including part of a church, tombstones and a municipal hall marker, reappeared in the middle of Pantabangan Dam in Nueva Ecija province in March after months of almost no rain, Marlon Paladin, a supervising engineer ...
FKA Twigs has revealed she has created an AI version of herself to engage with fans and help with promotion. The British singer-songwriter and dancer gave details of the project as she addressed a US Senate intellectual property hearing regarding the No Fakes Act, which aims to crack down on unauthorised replicas. FKA Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Debrett ...
Google appears to be rolling out “audio emojis” to its phone users. Some Google Pixel phone owners are noticing an option to send a reaction while on a call. “I was on the phone and saw a new button come up… “Audio Emoji”??? I had to call my brother to test it out!” said one X user. An accompanying video ...
Running around a ‘wall of death’ could keep people healthy on the moon, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Milan tied people to bungee cords to replicate lunar gravity and asked them to run around a rented ‘wall of death’, which they had loaned from an amusement park. The test subjects needed to run fast enough to ...
An “animal-centred internet” – which could allow pets to interact with each other as well as humans – may be possible, scientists have suggested. The findings come following a new study by researchers at the University of Glasgow found that parrots may prefer live chats with their friends over recorded messages – part of wider research that they said could ...
Archaeologists have been able to piece together the skull of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton. Researchers from Cambridge University and Liverpool John Moores unearthed the skull at the Shanidar Cave site, 500 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. As part of a new Netflix documentary, Secrets of The Neanderthals, they were able to put the skull back together and recreate the face ...
Apple is trying to fix a problem which caused some iPhone alarms to not go off. Users have been complaining they were missing their alarms. “This has probably been the third or fourth day in a row that my alarm clock has not gone off,” one TikTok user Reid Manning said. It is unclear how many people have been affected. ...
Uber faces a multimillion-pound lawsuit from London’s black cab drivers in a revival of the longstanding dispute over the operation of the ride-hailing app in the UK capital. The action, which will be filed in the High Court on Thursday, alleges that Uber improperly obtained a licence from Transport for London in 2012 and therefore took business away from other ...
Magic mushrooms have the potential to be an effective antidepressant, according to new research. Psilocybin – the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – has shown promise in reducing symptoms of depression after one or two doses, with few side effects and no signs of causing addiction. But past studies have not investigated things that might influence how effective the psychedelic ...