Oracle’s global workforce declined by 13%, representing a reduction of approximately 21,000 employees, during its 2026 financial year. The downscaling comes as the enterprise software giant continues an aggressive corporate restructuring, heavily accelerated by the deployment of artificial intelligence across its internal operations. Read: Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Review: Brilliant brains, flawed physics According to…
“Magic mushrooms” are consumed recreationally and for medicinal purposes around the world. These fungi gained their fame as “magic” because they produce chemical compounds (called psilocybin and psilocin) which have psychedelic effects. The most famous species of these mushrooms, due to their global distribution and ease of cultivation, is Psilocybe cubensis, known primarily from its…
For over three centuries, between 1526 and 1866, at least 10.5 million Africans were forcibly trafficked to the Americas in the transatlantic slave trade. Over half of them (with known places of departure) left from a 3,000km stretch of the west African coast between what are today Senegal and Gabon. Scholars trying to uncover the…
