Sci-Tech

The vast majority of those surveyed in Saskatchewan support social media limits for young people.

About 20 million internet-using children across 21 countries were subjected to sexual exploitation or abuse on digital platforms in a single year, with most cases occurring on social media platforms, a new report by the UN children’s charity said on Thursday.

Uber and British tech company Wayve are launching London’s first self-driving taxi service, a technology that’s already available in many U.S. cities.

A catastrophic rock-and-glacier collapse in Nepal is drawing attention to the risks posed by Canada’s own changing mountain landscapes, with a leading Canadian researcher warning that melting glaciers and thawing permafrost are creating new hazards.

European lawmakers demanded that the European Union executive force Meta to change the “addictive” design of its platforms in Europe, as the giant has promised to do in some U.S. states, according to a letter seen by AFP on Thursday.

Generative AI has quickly become prevalent in marketing, particularly in illustrations or videos, to the discomfort or disdain of many beholders. In the dining scene, whether at food trucks or bodegas, diners or cafes, the use of “AI slop menus,” as some TikTokers have dubbed them, can signify qualities people generally don’t want to associate with food: low quality, laziness or, well, slop.

The U.S. urged G20 countries on Wednesday to develop rules governing how AI companies use copyrighted material to train their systems, as major American technology firms face mounting lawsuits over the practice.

Dalhousie alumni have created an app to help students find housing and roommates.

The one-year restriction, which impacts nearly 600,000 public school pupils through eighth grade, will be closely watched across the United States as the city’s school board is by far the largest in the country.

Hunters wiped out thylacines, commonly known as Tasmanian tigers, in Australia nearly a century ago. But a myth about these shy, semi-nocturnal predators may have been behind the species’ extinction.

Jellyfish, known as “purple meanies,” washed up along the Jersey Shore over the weekend and stung beachgoers.

Scientists have made a possible breakthrough in the hunt for dark matter — observing hints of it during an experiment about a mile (1.6 km) underground in South Dakota — though they stopped short of saying they have finally detected this elusive cosmic component.

The University of Florida has been incorporating AI into its curriculum since 2022, before ChatGPT’s arrival, thanks in part to investments from chipmaking giant Nvidia.

New York City will ban the use of artificial intelligence for students in public schools through eighth grade, a source close to the matter told AFP on Wednesday, confirming U.S. media reports.

The most popular iPhone app in the U.S. is one that few people have thought about since dial-up internet: MapQuest.