Information is a valuable commodity. And thanks to technology, there are millions of terabytes of it online. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such…
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In a ringing judgment for the right to privacy, the South African Constitutional Court declared sections of the country’s main communication surveillance…
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In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances…
Earth’s ocean is incredibly vast. Some parts of it are so remote that the nearest human habitation is the International Space Station.…