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Getting Covid-19 Or Seeing Kin Suffer Is Making People More Charitable
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Getting Covid-19 Or Seeing Kin Suffer Is Making People More Charitable

The study found that people in the U.S. who were more directly affected by COVID-19 pandemic were 9% more likely to...

20 Oct 2021 8:47 AM GMT
Explained: How Economics Nobel Prize Winners Proved Their Theories In Real World
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How Economics Nobel Prize Winners Proved Their Theories In Real World

The awarding of the Economics Nobel Prize to David Card, Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens marks the culmination of a...

13 Oct 2021 7:46 AM GMT
Explained: How Facebooks Algorithms Take Advantage Of Human Biases
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Explained: How Facebook's Algorithms Take Advantage Of Human Biases

It would help if social media companies adjusted their algorithms to rely less on engagement signals and more on quality ...

11 Oct 2021 7:57 AM GMT
Instagram Is Bad For Teens, Facebook Has Known It for 1.5Yrs
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Instagram Is Bad For Teens, Facebook Has Known It for 1.5Yrs

A Pew Research Center poll shows that 89% of teens report they are online 'almost constantly' or 'several times a day.'

7 Oct 2021 1:35 PM GMT
Nobel Prize To Climate Scientists Is Timely As Crisis Deepens
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Nobel Prize To Climate Scientists Is Timely As Crisis Deepens

The Nobel Prize for climate scientists couldn't be more timely, as state-of-the-art climate models unequivocally state...

7 Oct 2021 12:14 PM GMT
Chilies Paved Way For Nobel Prize Winning Research On How Humans Feel Pain
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Chilies Paved Way For Nobel Prize Winning Research On How Humans Feel...

The discoveries made by David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have shown how human bodies convert stimuli into nerve...

7 Oct 2021 8:49 AM GMT
Explained: How Section 230 Paved the Way for Facebook, Google and Twitter
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Explained: How Section 230 Paved the Way for Facebook, Google and...

Section 230 is part of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 law passed while the internet was still embryonic.

6 Oct 2021 1:55 PM GMT
Lessons from Driver-assist System: Dont Look Away from the Road
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Lessons from Driver-assist System: Don't Look Away from the Road

As technology races ahead to make driving safer, drivers are left with the daunting task of figuring out how it works.

6 Oct 2021 1:18 PM GMT
Apples Child Safety Feature Could Backfire, New Research Indicates
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Apple's 'Child Safety' Feature Could Backfire, New Research Indicates

Apple's plan to roll out tools to limit the spread of child sexual abuse material has drawn praise from some privacy and ...

6 Oct 2021 7:31 AM GMT
An Eccentric Engineer Who Helped Doctors See Inside a Living Skull
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An Eccentric Engineer Who Helped Doctors See Inside a Living Skull

The first computed tomography image – a CT scan – of the human brain was made 50 years ago, on October 1, 1971.

6 Oct 2021 6:19 AM GMT
Pandora Papers: An Expert Explains Why Tax Evasion Has Not Stopped
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Pandora Papers: An Expert Explains Why Tax Evasion Has Not Stopped

Professor Ronen Palan, a specialist in offshore tax havens, believes that authorities should clamp down on lawyers and...

6 Oct 2021 5:58 AM GMT
How Squid Game Took 12 Years To Become A Netflix Superhit
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How Squid Game Took 12 Years To Become A Netflix Superhit

The brutal adaptation of children's games at the centre of Squid Game provide a startlingly evocative metaphor for...

4 Oct 2021 8:32 AM GMT