As high-severity natural catastrophes – wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and others – become more frequent and more people move into riskier locales, insurance affordability and availability have become a challenge in many states. Insurers underwrite and price coverage based on the risks they’re assuming, and rising premiums in these states have pushed more homeowners into residual … Read more
Corporate and diplomatic trends in AI writing According to the researchers, all sectors they analyzed (consumer complaints, corporate communications, job postings) showed similar adoption patterns: sharp increases beginning three to four months after ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch, followed by stabilization in late 2023. Organization age emerged as the strongest predictor of AI writing usage in … Read more
The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, coerced into defrauding innocent people through bogus investment and romance baiting scams. The operators of the compounds earn billions of dollars each year … Read more
Press Release by Western Pennsylvania Conservancy on 31 January 2025 WPC land protected for Bear Run Nature Reserve Western Pennsylvania Conservancy announced the purchase of two properties, totaling 97 acres, in Stewart Township, Fayette County that will be added to popular outdoor recreation and natural areas in the Laurel Highlands. A 44-acre forested property located … Read more
Many rural areas across Europe have experienced a decline in their populations over recent decades. Drawing on new research from Spain, Fernando Merino, María A. Prats and Carlos-Javier Prieto-Sánchez show that the provision of digital communication infrastructure should be viewed as an important priority in efforts to prevent the depopulation of small and medium-sized municipalities. … Read more