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Arsenal, Real Madrid win Champions League openers, Juve snatch dramatic draw
AFP, Published on 17/09/2025
» PARIS - Arsenal won 2-0 away to Athletic Bilbao as the league phase of this season's Champions League kicked off on Tuesday, with two Kylian Mbappe penalties giving Real Madrid a narrow win over Marseille while Juventus and Borussia Dortmund drew an eight-goal thriller.
Brazil's Amazon lost area the size of Spain in 40 years: study
AFP, Published on 16/09/2025
» RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL) - Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday.
Android is now the new Apple
Life, James Hein, Published on 10/09/2025
» Some may be wondering why have I used an Android phone up to now compared to, say, Apple iPhone? In the beginning, it was for the following four reasons -- a headphone jack, a removable battery, the ability to insert an SD card for storage and the ability to load a program into the computer. That last part may sound a little strange but a 12GB device with 1TB of storage and a graphics unit built in is a computer now. The "program" loading here means you can put your own operating system on the device and install applications, bypassing the Play Store. So where are we now? No headphone jack, no SSD support, no removable battery and based on a recent announcement, no ability to "side-load" programs any more. In other words, Google phones have now or will soon be turned into iPhones.
Wildfires producing 'witches' brew' of air pollution: UN
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» GENEVA - Wildfires are releasing a "witches' brew" of pollutants that can end up wrecking air quality a continent away from the blaze, the UN's weather and climate agency said Friday.
'Sleep under the stars': hotel mess in Brazil ahead of UN meet
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» BELéM (BRAZIL) - With two months to go, the "COP30 Hotel," spruced up and renamed after the UN climate conference due to take place in the Amazonian city of Belem in November, has zero bookings.
China's latest AI gadget is credit card-sized recorder
South China Morning Post, Published on 03/09/2025
» BEIJING — The latest artificial intelligence (AI) gadget in China is a credit-card sized note-taking recorder from Alibaba Group Holding's DingTalk unit, as Chinese firms introduce rival products to Plaud, the popular AI note-taker developed by a US start-up.
In Guyana, remote dirt road seen as future economic lifeline
AFP, Published on 31/08/2025
» LETHEM (GUYANA) - Through the vast interior of Guyana, a historic red dirt road known as "The Trail" winds through rainforest, plains and hills, linking the capital Georgetown to Lethem in the south on the border with Brazil.
Julia Roberts looks to ‘stir it up’ with cancel-culture film
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» VENICE - Julia Roberts hopes to “stir it all up” for viewers of her new film about a university professor grappling with fraught US campus politics, as the Hollywood star made her debut at the Venice Film Festival on Friday.
Food delivery robot eyed for labour-challenged Japan market
Kyodo News, Published on 27/08/2025
» KYODO — Swiss robotics company RIVR says talks about possibly deploying its four-legged robot in Japan have also advanced with SoftBank Robotics, a company under the Japanese conglomerate led by Masayoshi Son.
Taking the sting out of AI
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 25/08/2025
» While some industry leaders view artificial intelligence (AI) as reducing Thai white-collar jobs, others say the technology augments jobs, enhancing creativity as those ready to learn new things should thrive.