The outcry surrounding the Cambridge Analytica data scandal is putting Facebook’s business model on trial, with critics calling into question its targeted advertising practices and effect on user privacy. The company’s most recognizable leaders, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, have been on a media blitz apologizing for the leak […]
NEXT WEEK, FACEBOOK CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress about his company’s failure to prevent the data firm Cambridge Analytica from siphoning off information belonging to up to 87 million people, the majority of whom are believed to be Americans. In the lead-up to the hearings, the social network has scrambled to respond to […]
ORLANDO, Florida – One million Americans are living with Parkinson’s and for many, current medications don’t always control the side effects and tremors. “They’ve affected me since I was in my 30’s,” said Parkinson’s patient Harriet Marksfield. “Sometimes you get so overwhelmed as far as being tired,” admitted another patient, Helen Michaelson. “You just can’t go anymore.” […]
During the March 30 webcast of a Falcon 9 launch, video of the ascent was abruptly cut off at the nine minute mark, with SpaceX officials saying it did so to fall in line with government restrictions. Weird, right? What’s even weirder is that an obscure, decades-old law is now suddenly being enforced. So what […]
The U.S. economy created the fewest jobs in six months in March as a boost from milder temperatures faded, but a pickup in wage gains pointed to a tightening labor market, which should allow the Federal Reserve to further raise interest rates this year. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 103,000 last month, with construction and retail […]
American Airlines is ordering 47 new Boeing jets with a combined list price of $12.3 billion to replace some of its oldest planes. The sides did not reveal details of the deal, though airlines typically negotiate sizeable discounts on such orders. American is also canceling an order with Boeing’s European rival, Airbus, that was made […]
Do we continue to add new neurons to our brain circuitry throughout our lives? Or does our neuron count remain fixed once we reach adulthood? The scientific debate rages on. In a report published Thursday in Cell Stem Cell, scientists from Columbia University present new evidence that our brains continue to make hundreds of new […]
The salad you’re looking at above was grown in Antarctica, the first from a new greenhouse on Earth’s least hospitable continent. Scientists at Germany’s DLR Institute of Space Systems were successfully able to grow eight pounds of greens, 70 radishes, and 18 cucumbers without soil. Temperatures outside reached -6 degrees fahrenheit. The harsh Antarctic conditions […]
Delta Air Lines, one of the world’s largest carriers, and retail giant Sears announced that payment information belonging to hundreds of thousands of their customers may have been compromised through an online chat service. The service, operated by San Jose tech company [24]7.ai, was compromised between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, and information from customers […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Thursday that the United States would consider slapping an additional $100 billion in tariffs on the Chinese, escalating a potentially damaging trade dispute with Beijing. Mr. Trump said in a statement that he was responding to “unfair retaliation” by China, which published a list on Wednesday of $50 billion in […]
Spring is in the air, which unfortunately for many of us means sneezing, itchy eyes, congestion and other symptoms associated with seasonal allergic reactions, aka, hay fever. According to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, roughly 7.8 percent of adults suffer from hay fever. Outside of clinical treatments (which may take years to […]
A swarm of thousands of black holes may surround the giant black hole at the heart of our galaxy, a new study finds. At the hearts of most, if not all, galaxies are supermassive black holes with masses that are millions to billions of times that of the sun. For example, at the center of […]
