58 h. ago Elon Musk says humanoid robots will outnumber people as '10 billion to invade Earth'

The so-called richest man in the world turned advisor to the Orange Manbaby predicted humanoid robots could outnumber us 10 to one as billionaires are already using droids to cool their tea

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4 d. ago Four reasons why UK pet owners are visiting the vet more often, as revealed by animal expert

UK pet owners spent billions on vet services in 2023 with people becoming more conscious of their animals' health

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4 d. ago The people vs Musk: billionaire transforms Wisconsin court contest

State election has become most expensive judicial race in US history as Tesla boss spends unprecedented amount

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7 d. ago Senate overturns rule that limited bank overdraft fees to $5

Senate Republicans hand ‘biggest banks billions in profits from overdraft fees that kick working people when they’re down,’ Elizabeth Warren says

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8 d. ago US judge calls heat in Texas prisons ‘unconstitutional’ but does not order AC

Lawsuit from advocates argues brutal heat routinely rising above 100F amounts to cruel and unusual punishmentA federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons was “plainly unconstitutional” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could cost billions.The ruling affirmed claims brought by advocates of people incarcerated in Texas, where summer heat routinely soars above 100F (38C) for weeks. But they will have to continue pressing their lawsuit later in a trial. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Earth could have 'billions of unaccounted for people' as population figures explode

Boffins from a top Scandinavian University made the ground breaking discovery, showing that we may have hundreds of millions more people than we previously thought

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2 w. ago Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN

Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sourcesRetreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will have unpredictable consequences.Two-thirds of all irrigated agriculture in the world is likely to be affected in some way by receding glaciers and dwindling snowfall in mountain regions, driven by the climate crisis, according to a Unesco report. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago There could be billions more people on Earth than previously thought

Research warns needs of rural residents could be under-represented in decision-making

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2 w. ago There could be billions more people in the world than we think

Populations in rural areas have been significantly undercounted

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2 w. ago The world is getting noisier, and it’s making us ill. I’ve certainly played my part

It only needs a handful of people to raise their voices and suddenly all eight billion of us are in the middle of a shouting match. And here I am, booming out from the radioThe sound of the penny dropping was so loud it hurt. This was upon learning how noise knackers you, mentally and physically. Charlotte Clark, a professor of environmental epidemiology, didn’t put it quite like that, but I heard her loud and clear. She points out that our emotional response to sound is an aspect of our fight-or-flight response, evolved to get us up to speed when danger announces itself. A big noise equals big danger, possibly.Back in the day I suppose this might have amounted to a lion roaring, or an angry neighbour clubbing the door to your cave, swearing vengeance about nicking his kindling or something. I can’t think of many other loud noises our ancestors would have had to endure. Thunder must have scared the bejesus out of them – but otherwise, when it came to noise, I think they had it rathe...

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2 w. ago Sickness benefits bill ‘devastating’, Keir Starmer says as he defends £5billion cut to welfare

The Government announced a raft of welfare measures it says will help bring more people back into jobs, and which will save billions of pounds

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2 w. ago Sickness benefits bill ‘devastating’, Starmer says as he defends reforms

The Government announced a raft of welfare measures it says will help bring more people back into jobs, and which will save billions of pounds.

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2 w. ago Map shows one in three households are reliant on benefits in parts of Wales

It comes after the UK Government changed PIP payments and outlined plans to get more people back to work and cut billions from the rising benefits bill

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2 w. ago Universal Credit and work capability assessment explained including the changes announced today

The shake-up comes as Labour moves ahead with its plans to cut benefit spending by billions of pounds by pushing more people back into work - but what exactly could be announced today?

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2 w. ago Call it a defence levy or even a patriot tax – but Labour is going to have to raise taxes, fast | Gaby Hinsliff

The world has shifted and defence spending has to rise. But time is running out for the government to make a case for itFive years ago this weekend, life as we knew it was suspended overnight. Though with hindsight it seems amazing that it took Britain so long to lock down in the face of a gathering pandemic, at the time the pace of events felt dizzyingly fast.It took a still-young government time to realise its manifesto was toast; that it would be forced into decisions either it or the public hated, which would nonetheless beat the alternative. The new chancellor, Rishi Sunak, was visibly reluctant to rip up a budget whose ink was barely dry and instead spend billions paying people not to go to work. Yet ironically, it is furlough for which history may remember him most kindly.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Tesla is a good target’: Elon Musk’s car business is focus of fury for political role

Justice department’s threat to ‘come after’ demonstrators against Trump-allied billionaire fails to deter protestsHundreds of people protested at Tesla dealerships across the US over the weekend, as the backlash against Elon Musk and the Trump administration continued despite a warning from the attorney general that the government will be “coming after” protesters.The protests, in cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and New York, have come as Musk has seen his net worth plunge and the sales of Teslas plummet in Europe. In Brooklyn, New York, about 50 people gathered outside a Tesla showroom on Saturday afternoon to loudly make their displeasure clear, the fourth such protest in the last four weeks. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Major update over plan to freeze PIP disability benefits as government 'rethinks'

The government is also expected to make it harder for people to qualify for the benefit in a move to cut billions of pounds from the welfare budget

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3 w. ago FBI issues warning to all Gmail users over attack hijacking accounts

The FBI is warning the more than 1.8 billion people who use Google's Gmail about a dangerous ransomware scheme that could hold your private data hostage.

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3 w. ago Five of the world’s richest people attended Trump’s inauguration. They have lost $209 billion since that day

Elon Musk’s net worth has tumbled by $148 billion alone since Trump took office

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3 w. ago We are stuck. Declining. And spiraling. We need a breakthrough | Amana Fontanella

We live in dark, depressing and – frankly – terrifying times. Will technology push us over the edge or help us exit our many crises?Today we live in an era defined by crisis. Indeed, we are facing multiple overlapping threats at once: from accelerating climate breakdown to the rise of authoritarianism across the world, we are in a situation that the historian Adam Tooze calls “polycrisis”. It is no wonder that hope is scarce, pessimism is high and despair is pervasive. As one meme that captures the grim, morbid mood of our age reads: “My retirement plan is civilisational collapse.”But not everyone shares this gloomy outlook. On the extreme other end of public sentiment sit Silicon Valley billionaires: they are some of the most optimistic people on earth. Of course, it’s easy to be optimistic when you are sitting on enough money to sway national politics. And yet, the source of their optimism isn’t simply money. It is also a deep-seated faith in unfettered technological advances. Con...

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