How social media platforms are fighting coronavirus misinformation
The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has put pressure on social media platforms to try to deal with floods of misinformation. Even getting a handle on the size of the problem is…
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A charger that works in all new smartphones? EU pushes Apple to use same technology as rivals
It can be annoying to run out of smartphone battery power — and even more irritating to find someone with a charging cable in the nick of time, only to discover it’s…
How 3D holograms and AI are preserving Holocaust survivors’ stories
Max Eisen, 90, has lived his life by stubbornly looking ahead. He survived losing his mother and siblings in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, and survived the camp himself, by…
SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in successful astronaut escape test
SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in the next few months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday. No one was aboard…
Toronto-based fact-checking site tries to loosen Iranian regime’s grip on the truth
In an undisclosed location in Toronto, Farhad Souzanchi spends his days toiling away at a computer, filling a void half a world away for a rare commodity: facts. Souzanchi runs an online platform in…
European Union on track to miss 2030 climate targets
The European Union said Wednesday that it will likely miss its target for reducing greenhouse gases by 2030, dealing a blow to the bloc’s efforts to be a leader in…
Ancient plants learned to survive on land by stealing other species’ DNA
The first plants on Earth were algae that lived in water, and moving onto land required completely new survival skills. Now a new study involving Canadian researchers shows plants got…
U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok: Reuters sources
The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co’s $1 billion US acquisition of the U.S. social media app Musical.ly, two people familiar…
What really happens to the organic waste you put in your compost bin
In many communities, residents are asked to separate food waste into bins for municipal composting. In theory, composting can create a circular economy of food: it is grown, it is eaten, the scraps…
Misleading Trudeau ‘joke’ video demonstrates the political power of editing
A misleading video claiming to show Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bragging about bribing Canadian media has been viewed more than 250,000 times online. The video actually shows Trudeau telling a…
