FILE – Jesse Jackson joins the crowd before the start of the world welterweight championship bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File) The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the most recognisable figures of the American civil rights movement and a former presidential candidate,…
Psychrobacter SC65A.3 is a 5,000-year-old cold-adapted bacterium resistant to multiple modern antibiotics/ AI Illustration A team of Romanian researchers has identified a bacterium preserved for roughly 5,000 years inside an underground ice deposit that can already withstand multiple modern antibiotics. The organism, recovered from Scărișoara Ice Cave in north-west Romania, survived frozen conditions for millennia…
Nick Fuentes is a 27-year-old far-right provocateur, livestreamer, and ‘Groypers’ leader courting controversy online. Nick Fuentes is 27 years old and, depending on the source, either a marginal provocateur inflated by spectacle or one of the most disruptive figures in American far-right politics. Over the past decade, he has built a loyal online following, founded…
ChatGPT serves 800–900 million weekly users, but OpenAI burns around $17 billion annually, far exceeding subscription revenue from 35 million paying users./ Pexels If you’ve ever typed “please” or “thank you” into ChatGPT, you may have contributed, very marginally, to OpenAI’s electricity bill. Earlier this year, a social media user asked how much money the…
Jesse William Lazear/ PBS On 25 September 1900, Dr Jesse William Lazear died of yellow fever in Cuba. He was 34 years old. He left behind a wife in Maryland, a one-year-old son, and a newborn daughter who would never meet him. Lazear was not a reckless thrill-seeker or a fringe experimenter. He was a…
Gordon Ramsay breaks down over brother’s heroin addiction in raw new Netflix series With six episodes released on 18 February, Being Gordon Ramsay offers an unusually unfiltered look at one of Britain’s most recognisable chefs. Made with Netflix, the fly-on-the-wall series follows the 59-year-old as he embarks on what he describes as his most ambitious…
