FocusOpenAI Commits to Over $100 Billion in AI Chip Orders Amid Uncertain Financing Plans

This is Beirut 20/10 09:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

USA AI ChatGPT Nvidia Broadcom

OpenAI is ordering hundreds of billions of dollars worth of chips in the artificial intelligence race, raising questions among investors about how the startup will finance these purchases. In less than a month, the San Francisco startup behind ChatGPT has committed to acquiring a staggering 26 gigawatts of sophisticated data processors from ...

Pink October at LAU-Rizk: Breaking the Silence on Breast Cancer

Makram Haddad 17/10 13:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

LAU Lebanese University Rizk Hospital Christina Khater

The film avoids slogans and the “campaign” aesthetic to favor narration at the level of everyday life. One perceives what the illness upsets — confidence, self-image, intimacy — and what speech can repair. The room reacts: a few nervous laughs when self-mockery defuses embarrassment, longer silences over the metamorphoses of the body and ...

Climate and Poverty: UN Warns of a Double Burden for 900 Million People

This is Beirut 17/10 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

United Nations USA

Nearly 80 percent of the world's poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a "double and deeply unequal burden," the United Nations warned Friday. "No one is immune to the increasingly frequent and stronger climate change effects like droughts, floods, heat waves, and air ...

SpotlightSCUBE3: The Molecule That Promises to Awaken Sleeping Hair

Bélinda Ibrahim 16/10 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

SCUBE3 Hair Baldness Molecule

A California laboratory at the University of Irvine is revolutionizing dermatology. In 2022, Professor Maksim Plikus’s team isolated a molecule called SCUBE3, short for Signal peptide, CUB domain, EGF-like 3. Naturally produced by the dermal papilla, a tiny cluster of cells at the base of each hair follicle, this molecular messenger has a ...

Q&ARare Earths: Strategic Metals Key to Future Tech

This is Beirut 16/10 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Donald Trump European Union US Treasury China Rare Earths

Rare earths are minerals used to make magnets crucial to the auto, electronic and defense industries, as well as in renewable energy. The US Treasury Secretary slammed export curbs imposed by Beijing last week on technologies used for rare-earth mining, smelting, and other processing steps. Scott Bessent said on Thursday it was "China versus the ...

ExplainerDoomscrolling: The Anxiety Metronome

David Sahyoun 15/10 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Doomscrolling Anxiety Culture Unconscious

Doomscrolling is a neologism that combines the darkness of “doom,” meaning fate, calamity, or collapse, with the act of “scrolling,” the finger’s movement that steadily moves through a page’s content. It has now earned a place in English dictionaries. Merriam-Webster defines to doomscroll as “spending an excessive amount of time ...

SpotlightAustralian Moths Use Stars as Compass

Bélinda Ibrahim 15/10 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Bogong Moth Science Stars

Each spring, in the silence of Australian night, billions of Bogong moths take flight on an extraordinary journey. They travel hundreds of kilometers from their native lands in southeastern Australia to the icy caves of Australian Alps, where they cluster by thousands to spend summer in a protective torpor known as aestivation. In autumn, they ...

SpotlightBottled Water: Pseudomonas Aeruginosa at the Tap of Fear

Makram Haddad 13/10 19:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is found almost everywhere, in both water and soil. Known as an opportunistic bacterium, it mainly infects vulnerable or hospitalized individuals and is notable for its frequent resistance to antibiotics. Why It’s a Problem in Bottled Water Standards require the complete absence of P. aeruginosa at the time of ...

Spread of Drug-Resistant Superbugs Surging, WHO Warns

This is Beirut 13/10 12:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

United Nations WHO Antibiotics Resistant

The World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor injuries and common infections potentially deadly. The United Nations' health agency warned that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections ...

ExplainerParacetamol, Pregnancy, Autism: The Debate Reignited

Bélinda Ibrahim 09/10 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Paracetamol Pregnancy Autism Science Risk

Who hasn’t slipped a pack of paracetamol into their bag or medicine cabinet? As the pain reliever and fever reducer most of us rely on, paracetamol is a daily fixture, especially for pregnant women, who are often advised to avoid many other medications. Yet this familiar gesture conceals an important question: is paracetamol use during pregnancy ...

September Third-Hottest Globally on Record

This is Beirut 09/10 09:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

United Nations September Copernicus Climate Heat

The world just had its third-hottest September on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday, as global average temperatures remained stuck near historic highs for yet another month. September did not break the record for the month set in 2023 and was only marginally cooler than the same period last year, said the EU's global ...

ExplainerIs ChatGPT Doomed to Hallucinate in Order to Survive?

Bélinda Ibrahim 08/10 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

ChatGPT AI Artificial Intelligence Science World Hallucinate

Like other generative models, ChatGPT revolutionized our relationship with information while continuing to deliver confident factual errors. OpenAI, the company behind the famous chatbot, published a new study that doesn’t dispel doubts but instead reveals how deeply the problem is rooted in the system’s design. These so-called hallucinations ...