Despite Britain being a powerhouse of the literary world, the average Briton read three books or less in 2024, with reading less common among younger generations
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The flogging is part of a wider, often deadly, crackdown on people associated with a historic protest movement for women’s rights
A new study has achieved dramatic results from exploring how large language models can more accurately generate text from recordings of brain activity
The Thai authorities originally proposed a regulation that would have required locals to have at least US$1.5 million in their bank accounts
The report emphasises the cost of added weight on overburdened health systems, particularly in low-income countries
Microsoft announces the end of an era with the shutdown of Skype, and users have 10 weeks to download data or migrate to an alternative Microsoft product, Teams
A new analysis posits that animal agriculture, not fossil fuels, has actually contributed the most to global warming
Seven planets will be aligned and it won’t be until 2040 that the comparatively rare phenomenon can be seen so well again
At least 53 people have died since the first cases were reported on 21 January, with investigators on the ground pursuing a number of causes for the deadly outbreak