JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Muslims around the world celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday Wednesday, marking the end of the Islamic holy month with family reunions, new clothes and sweet treats. But the celebrations were overshadowed by the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s expected offensive in the city of Rafah despite efforts…
TORONTO — RBC chief executive Dave McKay faced a steady stream of questions about the bank’s climate and Indigenous rights track record at its annual general meeting Thursday. In response, McKay agreed on the need to evolve, but pointed to several of the bank’s major policy rollouts since its last AGM on its journey to…
The European Commission’s 2024 Annual Report on the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights will be dedicated to funding to promote, protect and enforce fundamental rights in the EU. To collect your views, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and European Commission are jointly running a survey that looks specifically into funding-related…
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Masahito Moriyama have signed an agreement to advance sustainable human exploration of the Moon. Japan will design, develop, and operate a pressurized rover for crewed and uncrewed exploration on the Moon…
The European Court of Human Rights found that climate change is a human rights issue, providing a blueprint for Europeans to force their governments to tackle rising temperatures…
The Unitree H1 Humanoid robot can outrun a human being. In this video we review the Unitree H1 robot and other humanoid robots and briefly consider the expected impacts on our world…
These soccer-playing robots can respond faster than ones trained in a standard way because they improved their skills via an artificial intelligence-based technique called deep reinforcement learning…
The United Nations climate chief says humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions. And he says it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift. In Wed…