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Astronauts splash down on Earth after first-ever medical evacuation
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (459+ words) Four International Space Station crewmembers splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, NASA footage showed, after the first ever medical evacuation in the orbital lab's history. A video feed from NASA showed the capsule carrying American astronauts Mike Fincke…...
A new year, a fresh canvas for cinema
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (68+ words) As a new year unfolds,Spazju Kreattivin Valletta ushers in January with a striking line-up of films that range from visionary debuts to restored classics. The programme embraces cinema as renewal, a space where stories rekindle empathy, artistry and imagination....
European Parliament hosts exhibition on St Paul’s shipwreck in Malta
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (173+ words) St Paul's shipwreck in Malta in AD60 is the main theme of an exhibition in the European Parliament celebrating Malta's Catholic tradition. Organised by MEP David Casa and inaugurated by European Parliament president Roberta Metsola, the exhibition reflects on the shipwreck…...
MFSA warns of scam emails impersonating authority
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (186+ words) In a statement, the MFSA said that emails from [email protected] were being sent out requesting payment of a capital gains tax of the profits from investments conducted or processed through financial intermediaries in order to release the funds. The emails…...
Government planning action against the abusive use of deepfake
5+ day, 49+ min ago (281+ words) The government is preparing recommendations against the abusive use of deepfake, the prime minister has told participants of the Parliament of Youths and the National Youth Council." Deepfake are realistic AI-generated video, audio, or images that convincingly depict people saying…...
‘Hamnet’ gives Shakespeare’s world new life by focusing on his wife
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (134+ words) Hamnet" gives Shakespeare"s world new life by focusing on his wife'Times of Malta For films and books about Shakespeare"s life, there is little source material to draw on beyond the few known facts of the great writer"s…...
OpenAI to start testing ads in ChatGPT
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (569+ words) OpenAI announced on Friday it will begin testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, as the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot seeks to increase revenue to cover its soaring costs. The integration of advertising has been a key question…...
January 17: The front page of Times of Malta 10, 25 and 50 years ago
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (38+ words) New "product-first" design integrates restaurants, groceries, and retail into one seamless shopping experience for Maltese consumers - Daily newsletter (the day"s top headlines, sent every morning) - From the editors (a curated selection of stories, sent every week)...
Leading education in the age of AI: a matter of strategy
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (715+ words) It would take a person 1.5 million years to read the petabyte (1,015 bytes) of data used to train GPT-4, without resting. Yet, for all that knowledge, the machine has neither consciousness nor intent. It is a paradox of our educational landscape:…...
How AI-generated sexual images cause harm, even though we know they are ‘fake"
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (130+ words) Many women have experienced severe distress as Grok, the AI chatbot on social media site X, removed clothing from their images to show them in bikinis, in sexual positions or covered in blood and bruises. Grok, like other AI tools,…...