BANGKOK, July 13 (Reuters) – An explosive fire at a popular pub in Thailand’s capital Bangkok has killed 27 people, with another 22 injured in critical condition, officials said on Monday, in one of the deadliest such incidents in the tourism hub in recent years.
The senator’s career was marked by a willingness to adapt to America’s dramatically changing political climate, writes the BBC’s North America correspondent.
Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi breaks the 27-year-old men’s 1,000m world record at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco, and Julien Alfred runs a stunning 200m.
I love busting out a French subjunctive in pursuit of better restaurant service, so it’s a joy to discover there’s a neuroscientific upside to being multilingual
It’s hard to pick a favourite PG Wodehouse line, but the one I’m perhaps most fond of is this: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the...
Experts say there will still be opportunities ahead in everything from teaching to hotels and the law
Entering the world of work often brings some uncertainty, but now there is another question: how can I AI-proof my career?
We asked people from across various industries what they think the impact of AI will be on careers, and which jobs may be less affected. While it is still early days for...
Utah Valley University doesn’t want to be known as the place where Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and even a discussion of memorializing that day has provoked division.
Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke
The extreme heat that has hit the UK twice in the past few weeks has left teachers struggling to cope as temperatures in some classrooms climb above 40C, with pupils and staff suffering from heatstroke, nausea and headaches.
Teachers say they have been desperately trying to keep...
Long-time Slashdot reader necro81 writes: There are several companies, such as Tesla, trying to make semi trucks fully electric. The capital cost for such a truck, and the MW-scale infrastructure to recharge it, may be a hard sell for some operators. [IEEE Spectrum notes that’s a charging infrastructure “that most freight corridors do not yet reliably provide.”] But some companies are instead...
California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding:Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of California’s total. Texas raised 1/40th of the amount… Although a campaign for a new tax on billionaires has convinced some ultra-rich residents to shift...
Which jobs are most threatened by AI? “Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees,” goes one common answer. “But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers,” reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, “who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of...
Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was “not scientific,”reports ZDNet. “That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously.”Today, he continued, “we’re at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away,” but “we certainly saw more junk being generated...