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Safety is always an important factor to consider when planning a trip, whether you’re concerned about solo travel, discrimination, or crime. But what are the safest countries in the world? With outdated reputations and misinformation floating around, it can be hard to determine which places really do (and don’t) offer a sense of security to its visitors.To help quantify the topic of safety, the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) has released its 2025 Global Peace Index (GPI), an annual, data-driven measurement of global peacefulness. To assemble the list, the IEP ranks 163 nations and territories using three domains of…

A new study published in Nature reveals ‘evidence for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic’. Speaking on FRANCE 24, glaciologist and ice-sheet modeller Frank Pattyn, Chair of the Belgian National Committee on Arctic/Antarctic Research, says that ‘what happens in the Antarctic doesn’t stay in the Antarctic’ and that ‘we haven’t seen all the change yet that should be induced’ by current global warming.

While American tech giants are spending megabucks to learn the secrets of their rivals’ proprietary artificial-intelligence (AI) models, in China a different battle is under way. It is what Andrew Ng, a Stanford University-based AI boffin, recently called the “Darwinian life-or-death struggle” among builders of China’s more open large language models (LLMs). Their competitive zeal should be a wake-up call for the West.

“Hola! ¿Hablas inglés?” I asked the woman who answered the phone in the Barcelona restaurant. I was calling in a futile attempt to make a reservation for the CNET team dinner during Mobile World Congress this year. Unfortunately, I don’t know Spanish (I learned French and German at school). And as it turned out, she didn’t speak English either.”No!” she said, and brusquely hung up.What I needed in that moment was the kind of AI call translation feature that’s becoming increasingly prevalent on phones — including those made by Samsung and Google, and, starting next week, Honor.When Honor unveils its Magic V5…

A few months before she debuted her controversial jeans campaign, Sydney Sweeney inspired backlash over another product — soap infused with her bathwater. Looking back on the incident now, the actress has no regrets about launching Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss. After all, the soap collab with the men’s personal hygiene company Dr. Squatch sold out in seconds. Sweeney does admit, however, that she couldn’t ignore the rage the cleanser incited. “I think it’s important to have a finger on the pulse of what people are saying,” she told The Wall Street Journal in a new interview. “Because everything is a conversation…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A first-of-its-kind, soft, vest-like wearable designed by Harvard researchers could help stroke survivors and people living with ALS regain crucial upper limb movement. The researchers call the device a “wearable robot,” which uses inflatable balloons positioned under a patient’s arm that  bulge and contract based on the desired movement. A combination of machine learning software and a separate physics-based model helps the robot interpret the patient’s intended movements and personalize actions accordingly. In testing, the robot was able to correctly identify the user’s intended shoulder movement 94.2…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

A new study finds that light pollution makes birds’ days last longer. Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The early bird gets the worm, as the old saying goes. And now a lot of birds around the globe are starting their days earlier than ever, because of unnaturally bright skies caused by light pollution. “For these birds, effectively their day is almost an hour longer. They start vocalizing about 20 minutes earlier in the morning and they stop vocalizing about 30 minutes later in the evening,” says Neil Gilbert, a…

Simon JackBusiness editor, BBC NewsBBC/Spencer StokesCourt hearings to decide on the steel firm’s future had previously been adjourned several timesThe UK’s third-largest steelworks has been placed under government control, creating an uncertain future for nearly 1,500 workers in Rotherham and Sheffield.Insolvency courts granted a compulsory winding up order sought by creditors owed hundreds of millions of pounds by Speciality Steels UK (SSUK) – part of the Liberty Steel metals empire of controversial tycoon Sanjeev Gupta.The company, which uses scrap metal to manufacture steel, will now be placed in the hands of the official receiver – a government appointed liquidator -…

General Fusion, a Canadian nuclear fusion energy startup, announced today that it had been thrown a lifeline in the form of $22 million in fresh funding. The company had laid off at least 25% of its employees in May in a bid to shore up its stretched finances. At the same time, CEO Greg Twinney wrote an open letter pleading for funding. The additional cash will give General Fusion some breathing room, though not much. A subset of General Fusion’s existing investors ultimately ponied up for what the Globe and Mail reports was a “pay to play” round — a…