By Aoibhinn Mc Bride Yet another passive aggressive email from a colleague; being asked to attend a meeting that could have been an email; someone leaving their used teabags in the sink in the communal kitchen for the umpteenth time… Sometimes it doesn’t really matter how monumental or inconsequential the occurrence may be, even the […]

Verified Twitter users have been awaiting the removal of their verified status on the platform, after Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk announced anyone who didn’t pay for the Twitter Blue subscription service would lose their check mark. Almost all of them however seem to still have their check marks in place, despite not paying up for […

“ChatGPT will redefine the future of academic research. But most academics don’t know how to use it intelligently,” Mushtaq Bilal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, recently tweeted. Academia and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming increasingly intertwined, and as AI continues to advance, it is likely that

Rats are susceptible to a number of variants of COVID-19, and wild rats have been carrying the disease around the sewer system in New York City, according to a new study. In a city with an estimated rat population of 8 million, researchers warned that infected wild rats have “ample opportunities” to interact with humans. […]

Over the past few months, developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have taken huge strides and its use has skyrocketed, especially after the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. However, while it might be reasonable to start preparing for a world ruled by AI, more often than not results might be exaggerated and AI capacities overhyped. People are [&hell

The European Union and Twitter boss Elon Musk are currently butting heads over the social media giant’s content moderation policies According to the Financial Times, EU regulators have asked Musk to hire more people to fact-check and review illegal content and disinformation. All major social media platforms will have to comply with the EU’s

TikTok has unveiled new measures to protect user data in Europe as it seeks to prevent further government bans on staff using the Chinese-owned video-sharing app over security concerns. The plan, nicknamed “Project Clover,” aims to create a “secure enclave for European TikTok user data,” said Theo Bertram, vice-president for

One of the main challenges telecoms companies (TELCOs) face is how to get a signal to hard-to-reach places. Billions of people still don’t have reliable access to the Internet or mobile coverage. It’s not just populations in remote areas that suffer from a lack of connection. Physical barriers such as mountains, valleys and forests can […]

European women aged 18-34 are nearly four times more likely to experience unwanted sexual attention in the workplace compared with men of the same age, and 10 times more than men over 50, according to a new research. The analysis, carried out by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), […]

Access to good healthcare is consistently one of the key concerns when we put a cross at the ballot box or find ourselves ill and needing the best treatment available. For the past five years, Newsweek, in partnership with data firm Statista, has ranked the best hospitals in the world. If you consider what those […]