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Artificial intelligence tells nightmare-inducing tales of terror

24 October 2017

The Shelley AI is writing its own horror stories after learning from reddit. Some are weird, some are spine tingling, and others? Well, see for yourself...

Father of 'nudge' psychology wins economics Nobel

9 October 2017

Richard Thaler has won this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the limits to human rationality and how to subtly influence people's behaviour

Kuwait's plans for mandatory DNA database have been cancelled

9 October 2017

Kuwait has revoked the world’s first law requiring everyone to submit samples of their DNA, after a court found it would violate personal liberty

Why Puerto Rico still has no electrical power and how to fix it

29 September 2017

Hurricane Maria is long gone but almost all of Puerto Rico has been left without a power supply, and restarting the national grid from scratch will be very difficult

Hurricane Maria confirms dire warnings for 2017 hurricane season

20 September 2017

As Hurricane Maria continues to cause destruction, predictions that 2017 could be the worst hurricane season since 2010 are being borne out

Mexico hit by second huge quake caused by same tectonic strain

20 September 2017

The country has been struck by its second big earthquake in less than two weeks, causing dozens of buildings to collapse

Facebook allowed adverts to be targeted at 'Jew haters'

15 September 2017

Facebook's ad-placing software allowed an investigative news site to target advertising at users who declared an interest in anti-Semitic topics

History of zero pushed back 500 years by ancient Indian text

14 September 2017

Carbon dating has revealed that the Bakshali manuscript housed in Oxford contains the earliest known version of our modern zero symbol -- and it is nearly 2000 years old