Joseph S. Nye, Jr.,Professor at Harvard University & author/Project Syndicate Experience from European elections suggests that investigative journalism and alerting the public in advance can help inoculate voters against disinformation campaigns. But the battle with fake news is likely to remain a cat-and-mouse game between its purveyors and the companies whose platforms they exploit. The…
CNN A new paper details how genetically modified pig hearts transplanted into baboons could support life and function for up to 195 days. The finding, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, takes scientists a small step closer to the possibility of using donor animal organs for human patients in need of a heart transplant….
AP Skip the costly electronic games and flashy digital gizmos. Pediatricians say the best toys for tots are old-fashioned hands-on playthings that young children can enjoy with parents — things like blocks, puzzles — even throwaway cardboard boxes — that spark imagination and creativity. “A cardboard box can be used to draw on, or made…
NTV A bright green mantis looks like it is going for a ride as it sits on the raised head of a deadly viper. In these incredible pictures, the bright green insect wraps its tiny legs around the slender blue Pit Viper and leans its body close to the shiny reptile’s skin, reports the storytrender.com….
Motherboard Computer graphics in video games and movies have gotten terrifyingly realistic and the methods of rendering them have become increasingly complex and labor intensive. Take it from the researchers at Disney, who in an effort to create the perfect digital teeth strapped some poor man to an upright gurney and outfitted him with some…
Culture Trip As far as crazy rich Asians go, it seems that most of them are living in crazy rich Hong Kong. According to a new report from data firm, Wealth-X, Hong Kong has more people worth at least £23 million than any other city. The report states that the semi-autonomous city in China saw…
Science Alert Salamanders are, by their very nature, slippery creatures. Perhaps none so slippery as the mysterious ‘leopard eel’ – an amphibian spotted intermittently in the waters of Florida over the last few decades that somehow managed to elude scientific study. Until now, that is. Ecologist Sean Graham of Sul Ross State University in Texas…
AP Cardi B is no longer feeling the love after little more than a year of marriage to fellow rapper Offset. She posted a video on Instagram saying that “things just haven’t been working out between us for a long time.” The 26-year-old says “I guess we just grew out of love, but we’re not…
Sky News The government says it will draw up new legislation after a review of mental health provision found some of the most vulnerable people in society are being given treatment that can be “traumatic” and “damaging”. The independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983, set up by the prime minister in October 2017,…
NDTV A Chicago woman is suing Hilton Worldwide for $100 million saying that she was filmed naked in the shower by a hidden camera while a hotel guest — in footage uploaded with her name onto multiple porn sites. The unnamed plaintiff sued the hotel giant for negligence citing “severe and permanent psychological injuries,” “severe…