Lebanon Death Toll Passes 1,000, Amnesty Says Israel Must Stop Attacking Hospitals

Since 2022 Just A Handful Of Countries Have Driven All Sovereign Gold Demand The 2008 financial crisis marked a structural shift in central bank behaviour Back in January, UBS showed that most of last year’s increase in gold prices was driven by US policy shocks boosting private demand. The bulk of the gold price increase last year can be attributed to US policy shifts: UBS Running in parallel, however, has been a more gradual but persistent rise in official sector gold holdings. A common narrative, one which was started largely on this website,...

First Humanoid Robot With Embodied Intelligence For High-Risk Jobs Enters Service Authored by Mriogakshi Dixit via Interesting Engineering, In the dizzying heights of a chemical storage facility, a new kind of worker is punching in. China has reportedly deployed its first “embodied” intelligent humanoid robot designed for high-risk industrial operations.  Embodied AI robot can be seen working on the wall of a large chemical storage tank in testing.CCTV PLus This isn’t just a fixed machine; it’s a 90-kg (198-pound) robot that can climb walls and work where humans can’t. Interestingly, the multi-purpose system is...

Five Dynamics That Make Sense Of An Increasingly Chaotic World Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team bad. The roots of this simplistic either-or are obvious: our tribe good, other tribe bad. The problems with this simplistic loyalty arise when we attempt to...