Food industry mounts pushback against RFK Jr.’s artificial dye crackdown
The U.S. food industry is firmly opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive effort to eliminate artificial dyes, following his March 10 meeting with executives from major companies like PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz and General Mills. As U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Kennedy demanded that companies remove dyes from their products…
ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations
OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe over its viral AI chatbot’s tendency to hallucinate false information — and this one might prove tricky for regulators to ignore. Privacy rights advocacy group Noyb is supporting an individual in Norway who was horrified to find ChatGPT returning made-up information that claimed he’d been convicted for…
Science behind ‘Polly want a cracker’ could guide future treatment design for speech disorders
A new study explains how a parakeet’s brain helps it to mimic human words…
Stroke rehabilitation drug repairs brain damage
A new study has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice, following from human studies…
Gardaí raise ‘grave concerns’ over new discipline regulations
Measures if approved by Government pose ‘significant and detrimental threat’ to rights of gardaí, says GRA chief…
Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average
Mollick proclaims “the meme Turing Test has been passed,” but a new study offers a key caveat…
More than 1 million people die of tuberculosis every year. They don’t have to.
Humanity’s battle against tuberculosis has been one of slow and imperfect progress. The disease no longer kills one in seven people in the US, as it did in the 19th century. But look elsewhere and its burden is still terrible: TB killed more than 1.2 million people in 2023…
Chinese scientists build robot that can prepare food like chef, video emerges
Chinese scientists have built a powerful humanoid robot which is capable of helping out with domestic chores The AI robot is known as Atom and it was developed by the Chinese robotics company Dobot which showed it online Atom, the AI assistant chef was spotted preparing a healthy breakfast according to specification and it also…
Activist Sues Government Over Police Use of Balaclavas and Unmarked Vehicles
An activist, backed by a human rights lobby group, has taken legal action against the continued concealment of police officers’ identities during patrols, arguing that the practice violates constitutional rights. Khelef Khalifa, in collaboration with Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), has filed a petition in the High Court in Mombasa…