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Reality TV in the UK is almost dead – why The Traitors offers a last glimmer of hope

Reality TV in the UK is almost dead – why The Traitors offers a last glimmer of hope: The explosion of reality TV onto our television screens at the end of the last millennium is one of the major global phenomena in recent media history. Purporting to show people in unscripted, “real life” situations, this …

Driverless cars: stopping dead seems to be a default setting when they encounter a problem — it can cause chaos on roads

Driverless cars: stopping dead seems to be a default setting when they encounter a problem — it can cause chaos on roads: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock While self-driving vehicles are being deployed in numerous cities globally, persistent controversies continue to challenge their deployment. Recently, Tesla recalled more than two million cars after the US regulator found …

Sharpeville: new research on 1960 South African massacre shows the number of dead and injured was massively undercounted

Sharpeville: new research on 1960 South African massacre shows the number of dead and injured was massively undercounted: On 21 March 1960 at 1.40 in the afternoon, apartheid South Africa’s police opened fire on a peaceful crowd of about 4,000 residents of Sharpeville, who were protesting against carrying identity documents that restricted black people’s movement. …

‘Digital necromancy’: why bringing people back from the dead with AI is just an extension of our grieving practices

‘Digital necromancy’: why bringing people back from the dead with AI is just an extension of our grieving practices: Generative AI – which encompasses large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT but also image and video generators like DALL·E 2 – supercharges what has come to be known as “digital necromancy”, the conjuring of the dead …

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – a modern spy film that knows the value of old tech

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – a modern spy film that knows the value of old tech: Warning: this article contains spoilers for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One is a pulsatingly entertaining spy film that combines frenetic action, globetrotting visuals and spectacular set pieces. The film is the latest …

Paris riots: when police shot a teenager dead, a rumbling pressure cooker exploded

Paris riots: when police shot a teenager dead, a rumbling pressure cooker exploded: Riots have broken out in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, following the lethal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy named as Nahel M. An investigation into his death is ongoing but the situation has already triggered protest and anger. Whatever the investigation …

Print is dead and other printing and paper myths busted

Print is dead and other printing and paper myths busted: The world of print has received its fair share of criticism and predictions about its future in the past two decades, brought on mainly by the digitisation of industries and the disruption this has caused to print as a result. Many have predicted the downfall …

Five rare and unusual psychiatric syndromes – including one where people believe they are dead

Five rare and unusual psychiatric syndromes – including one where people believe they are dead: Most people are familiar with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but some conditions are so rare that many psychiatrists won’t come across a single case in their professional lives. Here I present five of the rarest – …

Kenya’s starvation cult left over 100 dead – a psychologist’s view on how to support people as they process tragedy

Kenya’s starvation cult left over 100 dead – a psychologist’s view on how to support people as they process tragedy: A Kenyan investigator at a mass gravesite in Shakahola in April 2023. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images In early April 2023, Kenyan police discovered a mass grave linked to a Pentecostal church in the coastal …

What Denmark’s dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives — and how we can help them

What Denmark’s dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives — and how we can help them: Many hedgehogs are killed when crossing roads. Photo-SD/Shutterstock The European hedgehog is in decline all over Europe. In Britain, the species is already deemed vulnerable to extinction having seen its population fall by at least 46% in the past …