A shopping centre in southern China has installed special glass on the doors of men’s toilet cubicles that becomes transparent when people smoke inside, winning applause online. The move involving bat...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The Bad River Band sued USACE to stop Enbridge's 41-mile Line 5 extension threatening wild rice areas. ✓ Line 5 pipel...
Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physics’ oldest puzzles: why time only moves forward and why travelling to the past remains impossible. Physicist Cai Q...
The highest scores on IGN’s review scale are 9 for “Amazing” and 10 for “Masterpiece.” This year, only sixteen films received the highest marks from IGN’s roster of critics, and of those, only two fil...
Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL), the world’s biggest maker of electric-vehicle batteries, is set to restart a major lithium mine in eastern China, in a move that could ease raw material co...
Article URL: https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-phone-ban-reveals-some-students-cant-read-clocks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395757 Points: 9 # Comments: 6...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Government announces animal welfare strategy ✓ Promise to ban puppy farms included in plans ✓ Ref...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The IOPC can exercise its investigatory power if warranted. ✓ This follows the director's statement of willingness to...
Madison, Wisconsin, was ranked as one of the best college towns in the US. Sandra Foyt/Shutterstock College towns can significantly impact the student experience. WalletHub analyzed over 400 US cities...
📋 Key Facts ✓ A bevy of comets were skywatching highlights in 2025. ✓ A "blood moon" total lunar eclipse occurred as a major ...
Looking into age restrictions on social media is "more than justified," Germany's Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger told the dpa news agency, commenting on Australia banning the platforms for childr...
Duolingo shuts down for two weeks every winter, and its CEO says the cost is worth it for real rest. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Duolingo gives its staff two weeks off over the holidays, allowing emplo...
It’s not just holiday decor discounted today. Our favorite phone controller for mobile gaming is back down to its lowest price ever, matching Black Friday savings. The Backbone Pro has $35 knocked off...
Forget the hype. These are the LLMs that caught our attention in 2025—from autonomous coding assistants to vision models processing entire codebases....
📋 Key Facts ✓ 2025 was described as a 'Golden' age in music. ✓ Demon hunting elements were set aside in evaluations. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Croatia's capital aims to host Europe's best Christmas market. ✓ Festive events help put cities on the map. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ White elephant gifts stem from a legend of the King of Siam gifting burdensome animals to courtiers. ✓ Secret Santa gifts...
Polls have opened for parliamentary elections in the West African country, despite allegations of repression for opposition parties....
US missile attacks on Christmas Day hit a part of Nigeria’s north-west that is almost entirely Muslim...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Lewis Horwitz died on December 19 at age 90. ✓ He began his career as a bank teller in Los Angeles in the 1960s. ...