The world of podcasting has seen explosive growth over the past decade. We are a little more than halfway in 2023; the number of podcast listeners has reached 464.7 million, a number that continues to rise. With this rapid expansion, creators find it more challenging to stand out in a
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Breakneck development of artificial intelligence risked repeating mistakes made by the tech industry at the start of the social media era, Microsoft president Brad Smith told a business forum . Rapid advancements in AI have stoked global alarm over the technology's potential for disinformation, misuse and upheaval of the labor market. But
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Growing up in the Tidewater region of Virginia, Dyanna Jaye had a front row seat to the climate crisis. She recalls beach stabilization efforts that pumped sand from the bottom of the ocean to the shore in response to rising sea levels. And every hurricane season, the streets would flood. “I
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After a summer of weather extremes, where does the world stand in its goal to stem rising temps? The summer of 2023 has been a season of weather extremes. In June, uncontrolled wildfires ripped through parts of Canada, sending smoke into the U.S. and setting off air quality alerts in dozens of
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A small cube satellite designed to demonstrate a practical, low-cost method to cut down on space debris has been built by students at Brown University. Current estimates suggest there are over 100 million pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth, ranging from debris the size of a penny to an entire
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THE Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and the Bank of Industry, BoI, have signed an amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, on the $50million Nigerian Oil and Gas Park Scheme, NOGaPS Manufacturing Fund. The Fund was created by NCDMB and domiciled with BoI to attract oil and gas
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The Digital Service Act (DSA) is a set of sweeping rules aimed at reining in Big Tech and protecting the safety of users online. The EU’s historic regulations, which aim to promote a safer experience of the online world, came into effect on Friday 25 August. The DSA is the bloc’s first
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Britain’s energy regulator has set the new energy price cap at £1,923 for the October to December period, but warned that households will “absolutely struggle” paying energy bills during the winter. The new energy price cap set by Ofgem, the British energy regulator, is below £2,000 for the first time in
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Meta’s latest prototype headset, Flamera, looks ripped straight from a sci-fi action flick—and it quickly turned heads at Siggraph 2023, where Flamera won the coveted Best in Show award. The Flamera headset, bug-eyed and glowing ominous red, is an intimidating piece of kit that looks radically different from its peers. And
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Carbon offsetting schemes need 'urgent revision' as they significantly overestimate the levels of deforestation they prevent, scientists have warned. Bleak research led by the University of Cambridge claims that the 'carbon credits' generated by many land protection schemes are often not true to life. This warning follows the analysis of 18 'REDD+ sites' around
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