Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels The deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, which has killed millions of birds worldwide since 2021—and in rare cases can be transmitted to humans—may be spread through the food-stealing behavior of some seabirds. A study published in the journal Conservation Letters highlights food theft—also known as “kleptoparasitism,” where some seabird species … Read more
THG, which was previously known as The Hut Group, is an e-commerce business based out of the U.K. Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket via Getty Images British e-commerce firm THG said Tuesday that it is looking to spin off its technology platform, Ingenuity, in a blow to founder Matthew Moulding’s vision to build … Read more
Massive artificial intelligence models built by the likes of OpenAI will eventually become commoditized with the next wave of value in the technology coming from the applications that are built on top of the models, the co-founder and chair of Infosys told CNBC on Tuesday. Large language models are the AI models trained on amounts … Read more
Hundreds of Coles Online shoppers have reportedly been debited twice for their delivery orders due to an IT glitch — including one customer who now cannot afford to pay her car insurance. The anonymous South Australian shopper told 7NEWS.com.au her $300 shop had been debited twice from her bank account. She said she called the … Read more
Global shark populations are plummeting despite efforts to curb mass killings for their fins. Peruvian authorities said Monday they had seized about 1.3 US tons of illegally harvested shark fins, a delicacy in some Asian countries that has placed the predatory creatures at grave risk. The discovery was made at the warehouse of an export … Read more
Road development in the Congo Basin forest during the last five years. Credit: Remote Sensing of Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114380 The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed mostly intact, road development has recently … Read more
The cave-dwelling mysid shrimp Hemimysis margalefi. Credit: Marie Derrien Homing is an animal’s ability to navigate towards an original location, such as a breeding spot or foraging territory. Salmon and racing pigeons are famous for homing, but similar behaviors occur in groups as diverse as bees, frogs, rats, and sea turtles. There, homing individuals are … Read more
Illustration of the China and U.S. flag on a central processing unit. Blackdovfx | Istock | Getty Images U.S. sanctions over the years on China’s semiconductor industry has forced Beijing to ramp up efforts to boost its domestic chip sector. The boom of artificial intelligence and foundational models has only spurred on China’s goal of … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain People’s deep connection with the ocean—their “marine identity”—can help us reset society’s relationship with the seas, new research led by Dr. Pamela Buchan, from the University of Exeter, suggests. A diverse, international group of marine researchers and practitioners met to discuss marine identity—based on testimony and photos from multiple countries. The … Read more
The insights gained from this study show that stochastic volatility has significant influence on the pricing of perpetual American strangle options and their boundary conditions, offering crucial insights for minimizing risk in volatile markets. Credit: Dr. Ji-Hun Yoon from Pusan National University, Korea Perpetual American strangle options (PASOs) offer investors a method for minimizing risk … Read more
