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AI cracks Roman-era board game
AFP, Published on 12/02/2026
» THE HAGUE - A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers.
FBI director gave New Zealand officials illegal firearms: police
AFP, Published on 01/10/2025
» SYDNEY — FBI Director Kash Patel gifted New Zealand officials illegal firearms during his visit to the country earlier this year, authorities said Wednesday.
40 years of 'Mario' games that have grown up with fans
AFP, Published on 09/09/2025
» PARIS - Surrounded by thousands of objects bearing the likeness of Nintendo's moustachioed plumber, 40-year-old Kikai reflects that his "life would be totally different without Mario" who also marks four decades this week.
'The Beautiful Game' falls for AI's charms
AFP, Published on 03/06/2025
» PARIS - Sport has been unable to resist the surge of artificial intelligence and the biggest one of them all, football, is benefitting from data that AI can supply and the human eye cannot.
AI only just beginning to revolutionise the NBA game
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» NEW YORK — It is not a scene out of the future, but a reality on the hard courts of today.
Meet ‘Pink’, the new face of human evolution in Europe
AFP, Published on 13/03/2025
» PARIS - Western Europe has a new oldest face: the facial bones of an adult nicknamed “Pink” discovered in Spain are from a potential new member of the human family who lived more than 1.1 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
US CEO slaying suspect charged with murder as 'act of terrorism'
AFP, Published on 18/12/2024
» NEW YORK - US authorities on Tuesday charged the man suspected of gunning down a health insurance CEO in New York earlier this month with murder, including a charge of second-degree murder "as an act of terrorism."
Drone in Chiang Mai helps solve forest carbon capture riddle
AFP, Published on 18/12/2023
» CHIANG MAI: On a hillside overlooking cabbage fields outside the northern city of Chiang Mai, a drone's rotors begin to whir, lifting it over a patch of forest.
Euclid space telescope releases first images
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» DARMSTADT, Germany - The first images from Europe's Euclid space telescope were released on Tuesday, showing a nebula resembling a horse's head, never-before-seen distant galaxies and even "circumstantial evidence" of elusive dark matter.
'Thousands' of pieces of evidence against Russia in Ukraine: Eurojust boss
AFP, Published on 11/10/2023
» THE HAGUE - An international team of prosecutors seeking to put Russia's top brass on trial over Ukraine has already gathered "thousands" of pieces of evidence, the president of EU judicial agency Eurojust told AFP on Wednesday.