WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.
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They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.
Either way, let’s not be in denial about it.
Celestial objects will be separated by less than a degree and the colour difference between them will be striking
Look into the western sky this week to see an eye-catching conjunction between Mars and Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation of Leo, the lion. The chart shows the view from London at 2300 BST on 16 June 2025.
The pair of celestial objects will be separated by less than a...
Combination of two targeted drugs found to produce better outcomes and was more tolerable than chemotherapy
A groundbreaking UK-wide trial has found a chemotherapy-free approach to treating leukaemia that may lead to better outcomes for some patients, with the results being hailed as a “milestone”.
Led by researchers from Leeds, results from the Flair trial, which took place at 96 cancer...
Ride was the first US woman in space – but a National Geographic documentary looks at how she was forced to hide her queerness to succeed
A week before Sally – a documentary about the first American woman to fly into space – landed at the Sundance film festival in January, Nasa employees received emails informing them how Donald Trump’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) rollbacks...
Photographs appear to show how nickel mining damaged one the world’s most diverse marine environments
Chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades delayed indefinitely
A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said Thursday that it had postponed the Axiom Mission 4 to the...
Meta AI users may be inadvertently making their searches public without realising it.
“These pay packages that they’re offering are stretching into nine figures.”
Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the talk of Silicon Valley.
For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
An immensely readable dive into the ‘predictive processing’ hypothesis, our best guess as to how the mind really works
The process of perception feels quite passive. We open our eyes and light floods in; the world is just there, waiting to be seen. But in reality there is an active element that we don’t notice. Our brains are always “filling in” our perceptual experience, supplementing...
Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.
India can’t grow enough apples to meet demand but farmers are struggling to raise production.
Two dozen venture capital firms and other investors are investing in xAI, the artificial intelligence and social media company.
Vulnerable grassland birds listen in to the social rodents warning of the many threats both species face
Prairie dogs bark to alert each other to the presence of predators, with different cries depending on whether the threat is airborne or approaching by land.
But their warnings also seem to help a vulnerable grassland bird.
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The National Hurricane Center will experiment with the company’s DeepMind program to enhance the work of its expert meteorologists.
Leading artists said the bill needed to be changed to protect them from having their work copied by AI.
The apps use artificial intelligence to create fake nude images of people without their consent.
The hardware improvements in the new $450 Nintendo will make this an automatic upgrade for fans of the two-in-one console.