According to researchers in Ireland, male-presenting chatbots are rewarded more than their female-presenting counterparts.

In the bedding department of Denmark's largest IKEA store, security chief Torben Mortensen ​walks past rows of display beds and describes a use for them far removed from retail: emergency shelter.

Victims of sex abuse in line to receive payouts from L.A. County are being approached by private companies that offer a lump sum in exchange for the right to collect their future checks.

‘The climate issue is the security issue,’ says Turkish minister at Pacific pre-Cop summit in Fiji Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said. But, in comments that are likely to prove contentious, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, hedged on whether the world’s countries should try to repeat a previous agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the primary cause of the climate crisis – when they meet in Turkey next month. Kurum, the Turkish climate change minister, told the Guardian the world was “already in a transition” and suggested fossil fuel use could be addressed indirectly through other steps. Continue reading...

The Montreal mural-painting organization is marking 20 years of public art with new works dedicated to four Quebec cultural icons

EUROPE: Virgin Group confirmed on October 9 that an order for 12 Avelia Stream high speed trains had been signed with Alstom, including 30 years of maintenance. It also announced Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse-inspired social spaces at stations and integration of flight bookings into its rail offering.  Virgin Trains is seeking to begin running services between…

Also in today’s edition: Pacific Link pipeline meets legal challenge and Stephen Jarislowsky dies at 101

City leaders announced Friday that the intersection of Tremont and Parker Streets will see a “number of street upgrades,” including a bike lane that will be separated from traffic by parked cars. The city will also paint new white lines at nearby intersections.

Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores won by 25 votes in Queropalca, a district of just over 730 people in the Huánuco department, running for the centre-left Ahora Nación party. He is not Peru’s first elected Hitler.

The Stahl House has been sitting on the market for nearly a year and is currently listed at $20 million. Real estate agents say the price of reputation is hard to pinpoint.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea flight-tested on Thursday its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon, designed to fly at least five times the speed of sound and evade missile defense systems, bringing Seoul closer to what it says could be game-changing weapons capabilities.

Malaysia’s prime minister has contacted Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto about efforts to tackle the thick smog that has choked Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the country as weeks of devastating wildfires consume swathes of the neighboring archipelago.

Writer and director Aaron Sorkin chose to focus on a Facebook whistleblower and a Wall Street Journal reporter instead

Transit through vital waterway rose close to 90% of prewar levels last month but has since fallen sharply

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

WIRED has partnered with Neal Agarwal of Neal.fun to create a visualization of Elon Musk’s massive wealth. Here’s how it came together.

The Japan National Tourism Organization said Japan’s strong showing reflected the appeal of its tourism resources and its distinctive qualities.

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

Security pact promises information-sharing and coordinated disruption, but offers little detail on agencies or funding

Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it. Optogenetics may lead to a new era of medical treatment.

Microsoft is holding a Windows and Surface event later today, but it looks like HP has spoiled some of the pricing surprise for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops. Notebookcheck reports that HP briefly posted...

Kennedy is suddenly bullish on artificial intelligence—so we asked some AI assistants to rate his vaccine claims.

Ukraine's defense ministry said that recent attacks on refineries, including those in Moscow and Yaroslavl, had disabled 51% of Russia’s refining capacity. The claim could not be independently verifie...

Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.

Conservation group The Wilderness Society on Monday called for a moratorium on ​artificial intelligence data centers on federal lands, ‌citing concerns over water use, electricity demand, wildlife habitat and public access.

Democrats are increasingly confident they will have a record number of women serving in the House next year, after backing women in competitive districts they are now positioned to win.

Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.

The part of the Tian Shan mountains that stretches from south-eastern Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan is home to the wild Sievers apple (Malus sieversii), the ancestor of every apple we know today. But how did it travel from Central Asia to orchards around the world?

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking action over the warrants used to search two properties after his arrest in February, as part of a British investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.

The musician is still wrapping her head around the success of “Choosin’ Texas,” the record-breaking song she co-wrote and co-produced.

In all, there are roughly two dozen state student loan lenders that offer broad-based assistance to help students fill education funding gaps.

The two who died were men ages 20 and 23. Dooly County authorities have yet to announce a suspect or a possible motive.

Chiba Prefecture-based Sound House has established a logistics center and showroom in the town of Onagawa, which was struck by the March 2011 tsunami.

​The two candidates are scheduled for a series of four debates starting Tuesday that could define the nationally watched contest, with the Senate majority at stake.

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the major AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. Continue reading...

The US government is paying more to borrow, and it is running out of easy ways to rein in its borrowing costs.

Should they fight upstart labs, or co-operate with them?

In 'One Helluva Ride,' Michael Douglas opens up about firing his dad, affairs on set, his son’s imprisonment and a lifetime lived under the spotlight.