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  2. Glacier collapse may have triggered deadly Nepal flash flood, experts say

    NEW DELHI — A deadly flash flood near Nepal's border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and crashed on to the valley floor hundreds of metres below, experts said citing satellite imagery from Planet Labs. It was not clear what caused the glacie

    Korea Times WorldIndia

  11. Nepal flash floods: 95 dead, hundreds missing; India launches relief effort

    The death toll in Nepal’s devastating flash floods has risen to 95, while 384 people remain missing, including 105 Indian nationals. The disaster struck Nepal’s Rasuwa district near the Tibet border after a sudden surge in the Bhotekoshi River, causing widespread destruction and triggering one of th

    The HinduChina

  14. A Greenland Glacier Loses Another Chunk of Ice

    The ESA's Sentinel satellites captured a 76 sq. km. chunk of ice breaking off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. They watched the cracks and deformations happen in real time leading up to the calving. While calving is normal, it's happening more often, and this is another clear sign that the Arctic

    Universe Today

  23. Twelve Britons are among travellers unaccounted for after the flood on Nepal's border

    Twelve British citizens appear on a provisional list of travellers Nepali authorities have been unable to contact following the flash flood and landslides that struck the border corridor between Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. The country's tourism board included hundreds of people on that register, a

    MercoPressChina

  31. South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs

    Bird eggs intercepted in homemade incubators at Johannesburg airport as officials try to halt wildlife trafficking South African police have arrested two Thai nationals in separate incidents for allegedly attempting to smuggle endangered parrot eggs out of the country as authorities try to stem the

    Guardian WorldSouth Africa

  32. The threat environment and processing at the edge

    In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss interviews FrontGrade CTO Lorne Graves. They discuss how processing power on spacecraft is adapting to the rise of megaconstellations, what benefits satellite processing power […] The post The threat environment and processing at the edge appeared first on Spac

    SpaceNews

  35. The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Kids issue If the desire to limit kids’ use of technology was once a subcurrent, it has become a raging flood. Countries around the world are ban

    MIT Technology Review

  36. Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover

    In 6,000-word essay Microsoft co-founder also expresses concern governments not prepared for technology’s impact Business live – latest updates Bill Gates has called for “human-reserved” jobs in certain sectors to prevent AI replacing them, and expressed concern that governments are not prepared

    Guardian Technology

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