Observers invited by Venezuela condemn election
Observers invited by Venezuela condemn election.....»»
RNC loses complaint claiming Gmail spam filter is biased against Republicans
FEC found "no reason to believe" that Google used spam filter to help Democrats. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming.....»»
Adam Pally is an unwanted pandemic guest in the trailer for Who Invited Charlie?
Adam Pally is an unwanted guest who seeks shelter at his college roommate's house in the midst of the pandemic in the first trailer for Who Invited Charlie?.....»»
Apple to hold its 2023 Investor Meeting on March 10 with another virtual conference
Apple on Thursday invited its investors to its 2023 Annual Meeting on March 10, which will once again be held virtually rather than in person. In the past, the meeting was usually held in the Steve Jobs Theater, but Apple has changed this in recent.....»»
Cutting-edge technologies presented at Young Innovators Conference
Taiwan's Epoch Foundation invited nine top young innovators under the age of 35 from all over the world to share their research directions in essential technical fields, presented online at the Young Innovators Conference on Jan 12 Taipei time. Seven.....»»
Inside Facebook"s high-stakes debate to reinstate Trump after a two-year ban
Facebook-parent Meta is preparing to announce one of the most consequential decisions in the company's history, a landmark move that will set a precedent for online speech and could affect the course of the 2024 US presidential election......»»
Brazil riots trigger widespread content bans on Facebook, YouTube
Content moderators began working with Brazilian authorities before the election. Enlarge / A view of a broken window after the supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro participated in an anti-democratic riot at Plan.....»»
Musk"s Twitter restores accounts of prominent election deniers two years after Jan. 6 attack
Elon Musk's Twitter has restored the accounts of two prominent election deniers who were banned from the platform following the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol......»»
Politicians are getting older—shutting young people out of decision-making around the world
US president Joe Biden is clearly frustrated about the focus on his age. In mid-December last year he reportedly vented to allies, saying: "You think I don't know how fucking old I am?" But, as attention turns to the 2024 election, the prospect of Bi.....»»
Observers explore the eclipsing polar BS Tri
Russian astronomers have performed spectroscopic and photometric observations of a peculiar eclipsing polar known as BS Tri. Result of this observational campaign, presented in a paper published December 23 on arXiv.org, shed more light on the proper.....»»
When American democracy is weakened, faith in the U.S. as an ally falters
A new study finds that foreign interference in an American election can reduce faith abroad in the United States as an effective and trustworthy ally, suggesting that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election had some international ramifications......»»
Three time dimensions, one space dimension: Relativity of superluminal observers in 1+3 spacetime
How would our world be viewed by observers moving faster than light in a vacuum? Such a picture would be clearly different from what we encounter every day. "We should expect to see not only phenomena that happen spontaneously, without a deterministi.....»»
Zuckerberg weighed naming Cambridge Analytica as a concern in 2017, months before data leak was revealed
Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook was investigating "organizations like Cambridge Analytica" alongside Russian foreign intelligence actors as part of an election security assessment before ultimately removing the reference a.....»»
How research is boosting voter turnout
Election research pioneered by UC San Diego political scientist Zoltan Hajnal is not only having a real-world impact in California, but is starting to take root beyond the state......»»
Cloudflare offers zero trust security tools for free to at-risk public interest groups
Cloudflare announced that the Cloudflare One suite of zero trust security tools is available at no cost to at-risk public interest groups that are part of Cloudflare’s Project Galileo, as well as local and state election sites part of Cloudflare’.....»»
UAW wins vote in U.S. EV battery plant
The UAW won an election at a GM and LG Energy Solution Ltd. electric-car battery plant in Lordstown, Ohio, giving the union its first win in a factory of that kind......»»
Young Climate Voters Could Tilt Georgia"s Runoff Election for Senate
Voters under age 30 turned out for Raphael Warnock in the first race, suggesting he lean even harder into climate policy.....»»
How Silicon Valley looks at the Taiwan miracle (3): Competitiveness is the best survival strategy
Issues that might be taken for granted in other countries may be matters of life and death in political discussions that don't allow any middle ground. Will 2024 see the last presidential election in Taiwan? If China sees zero economic growth, the li.....»»
BOE invests in Honor
China-based display panel maker BOE Technology recently made an investment in Chinese smartphone vendor Honor, a partnership that industry observers say will allow the former to increase handset-use OLED panel shipments and the latter to secure panel.....»»
Twitter charity partners condemn Musk"s "dangerous" changes
Two of Twitter's most important civil rights partners criticise reinstatement of Trump and West accounts.....»»
"Voracious" giant snails spark alarm in Venezuela
A "plague" of giant African snails that pose potential health risks to humans is causing alarm in Venezuela where sustained rains have facilitated their proliferation......»»