EU strikes deal on landmark AI law

EU negotiators nailed down curbs on how AI can be used in Europe but still seek to encourage innovation. EU member states and lawmakers clinched a deal on Friday on…

US rail to get much-needed facelift

Workers are seen at an Amtrak facility in New Castle County, Delaware in November 2023. Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars…

Amazon asks federal judge to dismiss the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against the company

The Amazon logo is seen, Sept. 6, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif. Attorneys for Amazon on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 asked a federal judge to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s…

Text grows with everything still to play for

Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events A new version of the centerpiece text being discussed at…

Prison bakery for enslaved people found in Roman Pompeii

Archaeologists have uncovered a Prison bakery during recent excavations in Pompeii. Pompeii was a Roman city in the modern commune of Pompeii, located in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii,…

Advisory panel issues field-defining recommendations for investments in particle physics research

Newswise — Yesterday marked the release of a highly anticipated report from the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), unveiling an exciting new roadmap for unlocking the secrets of the…

Archaeologists find 22 mummified burials in Peru

A Polish-Peruvian team of archaeologists have uncovered 22 mummified burials in Barranca, Peru. The discovery was made on the Cerro Colorado hill, where the researchers unearthed the burials in one…

Advisory Panel Issues Field-Defining Recommendations for U.S. Government Investments in Particle Physics Research

The following news release on the 2023 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report is based on one issued today by the American Physical Society (APS) with added content specific to the U.S. Department…

US approves sickle cell breakthrough with gene editing therapy

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The United States on Friday approved a breakthrough medicine that uses revolutionary gene editing tool CRISPR to treat the debilitating blood disorder sickle cell disease. More…

UK probes Microsoft-OpenAI partnership

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Britain’s competition watchdog announced on Friday that it was looking into whether a partnership between US tech giant Microsoft and artificial intelligence developer OpenAI resembles a…