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The magazine cites the tremendous technological advances made by the artificial intelligence industry over the past year in bringing on the age of “thinking machines”. Source link

NATO chief Mark Rutte has urged allies to step up defence efforts to prevent a war waged by Russia, adding that it could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured”. Source link

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, who has been living in hiding in fear for her safety, appears in public for the first time in almost a year. Source link

The federal government has announced more than $200 million in additional funding over the next seven years for Antarctic science and logistics. Source link

Former Abercrombie & Fitch boss Michael Jeffries, who is part of a trio accused of luring men to drug-fuelled parties with the promise of modelling jobs, is facing federal sex trafficking charges.  Source link

Iceland has joined Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia in boycotting the competition in protest against Israel’s participation in the song contest. Source link

Already loved around the world for its palate-pleasing tastes, UNESCO has now added the rituals surrounding Italian food preparation and consumption to its list of the world’s traditional practices and expressions. Source link

US President Donald Trump says the tanker is “the largest one ever seized”. Source link

It has been almost 50 years since armed men burst into the Lufthansa cargo terminal at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport and got away with stealing millions.   Source link

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest-known evidence of deliberately lit campfires at a site in the UK dated to be 400,000 years old.  Source link