Israel enacts exacting new rules for aid groups assisting Palestinians
The move to constrain NGOs comes amid a wider Israeli effort to curtail aid delivery in Gaza and shrink the space in which humanitarian groups function…
Tired of AI slop on Instagram? These alternative apps are for human artists only
Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos, or words created using generative artificial intelligence. While some AI slop is glaringly fake, a lot isn’t. I remember the first time AI hoodwinked me…
China’s humanoid robot craze sparks surge in rentals
Two humanoid robots walk forward at the exhibition hall of Unitree Robotics in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Feb. 20, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi) HANGZHOU, March 14 (Xinhua) — In a mesmerizing display at a recent show in Hangzhou, eastern China’s leading tech hub, a dozen humanoid robots twisted and twirled in perfect sync…
The man whose tweets helped kill DEI
Four years ago, Richard Hanania was a little-known right-wing intellectual, one of many posters building a brand with tweets and Substack posts attacking “wokeness” and other conservative bugbears. But in the middle of 2021, one of his ideas took off. In an article called “Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law,” Hanania argued that many…
3 ways you can help the people hurt by Trump’s foreign aid cuts
President Donald Trump has put millions of lives at risk by shutting down most of America’s humanitarian and development work abroad. After freezing almost all spending on foreign aid, the administration this week finished its purge at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), announcing that 83 percent of its programs are being axed…
‘Do you have communist links?’ US sends 36 questions to UN aid groups
UN groups fear the move is a sign the US is planning to abandon humanitarian work…
30 Products For Bored Humans Who Want To Try Something New
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A “biohybrid” robotic hand built using real human muscle cells
A real bit of cyborg hardware highlights the technology’s current limitations…The Rise of Robotics in Restaurants
As restaurants continue to struggle with staff shortages exacerbated by the COVID&19 pandemic, the adoption of AI&powered robots is transforming the hospitality industry by taking over tasks traditionally performed by humans, enabling staff to focus more on enhancing the guest experience…