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Earlier this fall Dr. Scott Solomon presented the results of a huge heart drug study to an audience of fellow cardiologists in Paris. The results Solomon was describing looked promising: Patients who took the medication had a lower rate of hospitalization and death than patients on a different drug. Then he showed his audience another […]

Disney’s brand-new streaming service Disney Plus is suffering technical glitches on its first day. November 12, 2019, 3:31 PM 1 min read Disney’s brand-new streaming service Disney Plus may be a victim of its own success. The $7-a-month service offering an array of Disney classics and new shows suffered some technical difficulties hours after launching

Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak joined in the online debate over accusations of gender discrimination by the algorithm behind the iPhone maker’s credit card, fueling scrutiny of the newly launched Apple Card.  The criticism started on Thursday, after entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson railed against the Apple Card in a series ofTwitter posts, saying it gave

In February, an Instagram account called @BallerBusters cropped up and began wreaking havoc on the flashy Instagram entrepreneur community. Its goal: To expose phony entrepreneurs. Using a mix of screen-shotted receipts, memes and crowdsourced information from followers, the account seeks out people who don’t “act their wage.” Often, these are people who call themselves entrepreneurs

A fake social media video where Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn endorse each other for prime minister has been posted online in an attempt to show the potential of so-called ‘deepfake’ videos to undermine democracy. The video, by research organisation Future Advocacy, used Artificial Intelligence (AI) and an impressionist to make the candidates’ clips appear

A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam November 12, 2019, 10:04 AM 2 min read A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam, a conservation group said Tuesday.

Twelve people have walked on the moon since humans landed there 50 years ago, but no one has ever directly touched its surface. Those astronauts wore their spacesuits outside the lander. No one ever took off a glove or a boot while standing on the moon. “Once we got inside and took off our suits

Child sexual abuse photos and videos are among the most toxic materials online. It is against the law to view the imagery, and anybody who comes across it must report it to the federal authorities. So how can tech companies, under pressure to remove the material, identify newly shared photos and videos without breaking the

The head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that the company will begin trials this week of hiding ‘likes’ on some US users posts. Users will continue to be able to see ‘likes’ on their own posts but they won’t appear publicly. There has been mixed reaction from celebrities and social media influencers. Instagram, which is

There’s a building boom on the Tibetan plateau, one of the world’s last remote places. Mountains long crowned by garlands of fluttering prayer flags — a traditional landscape blessing — are newly topped with sprawling steel power lines. At night, the illuminated signs of Sinopec gas stations cast a red glow over newly built highways.