An expert has revealed the skills you need to survive an apocalyptic scenario, but they might not be what you expect.
Oct 12, 2026
In an interview, Dr. Peter Piot recalled when he first saw the spindly virus under a microscope and reflected on a five-decade career spent fighting two deadly pathogens.
A former top executive at HSBC has launched an artificial intelligence-driven wealth management start-up, setting her sights on a billion-dollar valuation and betting that AI can transform how individuals manage their investments and finances. Trista Sun, formerly a managing director in the international wealth and premier banking division at HSBC, said in an interview last week that her venture Equora aimed to help investors manage their finances “proactively” with AI agents, addressing...
A new study finds a legal gap in Canada's Species at Risk Act can leave species waiting years for protection, with 153 of 288 cases overdue and still unresolved as of January 2025.
American will expand its sweeping modernization of the inflight customer experience by bringing Starlink to all mainline aircraft, including Airbus narrowbodies and Boeing narrowbodies and widebodies. Installations will begin in early 2027. With plans to equip more than 1,000 mainline aircraft, American aims to operate one of the world’s largest Starlink-connected fleets equipped with Starlink’s Performance Aero Terminal, which can deliver speeds of up to 1 Gbps per terminal.
The days of worrying about what to wear on a first date may be over - as what you've eaten beforehand could be just as important, according to a nutritionist.
Inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay, has published a new white paper - Earning insight from every transaction: optimising enterprise-wide performance through AI and payments data - that challenges the current narrow use of AI in e-commerce. While the application of AI is well-proven for fraud prevention, the payments innovator believes e-commerce merchants are missing the opportunity to use AI to interrogate the immense volume of transaction data for enterprise-wide benefits. It believes PSPs have a critical role to play in shifting the use of AI.
New research from EventsAir, a leading event management software provider, reveals a significant gap between enthusiasm for artificial intelligence and its practical adoption across the events industry. While 72 per cent of event professionals consider AI valuable or essential for improving event outcomes, 26 per cent are still not using it all. Among those using AI, event marketing is currently the leading application, cited by 62.4 per cent of respondents, well ahead of data analysis and reporting (37.8 per cent). 15 per cent apply it to logistics and operations, 14.5 per cent to maximizing attendee engagement and 13.2 per cent attendee personalization.
If you've got a spare £750,000 burning a hole in your pocket, you could become the proud owner of Britain's strangest property.
New research has exposed a potential flaw in the memory-saving technology underpinning DeepSeek’s models, marking a rare challenge to a breakthrough that has helped the Chinese artificial intelligence lab close the gap with US rivals OpenAI and Anthropic with its low-cost approach. The findings were published late last month in a paper led by researchers from ByteDance and co-authors affiliated with Princeton University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. The study,...
Those living in flood-hit areas say they are worried, and have started preparing.
Japan has urged banks to adopt chip-enabled passports and MyNumber cards for customer verification after a wave of cyberattacks raise concerns about millions of personal records.
Elon Musk says he will bring affordable Starlink satellite internet in India, challenging Reliance Jio’s dominance in the country’s low-cost data market ahead of its proposed IPO.
China accounts for about 5 per cent of the equipment and materials directly supplied to the US chip industry when measured by country of manufacture, but its grip on certain rare earths needed for chipmaking is over 90 per cent, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). While 95 per cent of the nearly US$27 billion annual spending by American chipmakers on manufacturing equipment and materials was sourced from companies headquartered in the US, Europe, and Japan, that figure...