LOCUSTS THREATEN LIVELIHOOD At least 20 million lives are at risk as locust swarms threaten food security across East Africa and South Asia. Locusts are the worldâs oldest and most destructive migratory pests. An average swarm, which contains up to 40 million locusts, just…
BUMBLEBEES ARE ROLLING OUT⊠OF THE EARTH
New scientific research suggests that the likelihood of a bumblebee population surviving anywhere has declined by 30% over the course of a single human generation. The scientists warned that the rates of decline appear to be âconsistent with a mass extinctionâ. Research Findings In…
SHURI CASTLE BURNS, OKINAWANS MOURN
What Happened? In the wee hours of 31 October, a fire suspected to be sparked by an electrical fault set Shuri Castle ablaze in Okinawa, Japan. The castle is one of nine components of the Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of Kingdom of Ryukyu,…
DEEPFAKES ARE BECOMING REAL PROBLEMS
The rise of deepfakes Deepfakes are doctored videos that are created by sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) capable of âdeep-learningâ. Deep-learning is a subset of machine-learning, where algorithms modeled after the human brain learn from large amounts of data. Deepfakes are created by AI analysing…