Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech. Toward the end of 2022, engineers on Meta’s team combating misinformation were ready to debut a key fact-checking tool that had taken half a year to build. The company needed all the reputational help it could get after a string of crises had badly damaged the credibility of Facebook and Instagram and given regulators... 

Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook and Instagram is expected to soon launch a new app similar to Twitter. The app is said to have been tested by celebrities and influencers in secret and is expected to be available to the public in June. The new addition will be different from Instagram and users will be able to link their accounts in the different apps. A social media marketing professor named... 

A trio of Vladimir Putin’s leading hypersonic scientists have been detained on suspicion of high treason in what fellow scientists have declared a ‘witch hunt’ Aerodynamics specialist Dr Valery Zvegintsev, 78, is the latest of three prominent scientists from the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Novosibirsk to be arrested on extremely serious charges. Zvegintsev,... 

Russia’s former head of the Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said he went on a quest about a decade ago to find concrete proof that the Americans landed on the Moon in 1969. After finding little evidence, he questioned whether the Apollo 11 Mission reached the lunar surface. “About ten years ago, when I worked in the Government, I sent an official request to Roscosmos to provide me with... 

New legislation aimed at regulating artificial intelligence (AI) has been announced by the European Parliament, which seeks to ensure the “human-centric and ethical” development of AI systems. The draft AI Act, which would be the first of its kind in the world, was voted in favor of by the internal market committee and the civil liberties committee on Thursday. If approved in the mid-June plenary... 

During a virtual press briefing from Geneva, Dr. Nima Saeed Abid, who assumed the position of WHO representative in Sudan on August 4, 2020, expressed concern about the “grave biological risk” that emerged after one of the warring factions took control of the central public health laboratory. The seized facility contained samples of measles and polio, making the situation “incredibly... 

Google’s rush to win the artificial intelligence (AI) race has led to ethical lapses on the company’s part. Eighteen current and former workers at the Mountain View, California-based tech firm, alongside internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg, have attested to this. According to the employees, the management asked them to test out Google’s AI chatbot Bard in March, shortly before its public... 

During his bombshell interview with Tucker Carlson, aired Monday, Elon Musk revealed that Google has long planned to create an AI God and that Musk has repeatedly warned the company’s owners against it. Musk stated that Google’s ultimate goal is to “create digital super intelligence” or what he describes as a “digital god.” The Twitter owner said that Co-Founder of Google, Larry Page,... 

A study has linked excess soy consumption to low sperm count in men. Soy is a powerful phytoestrogen that has found its way into the average American’s diet. As soy is a versatile high-protein alternative to meat, the fact that it is cheap to produce has enabled soy to find its way into most processed foods. For those concerned about processed food, harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals such as... 

Artificial Intelligence expert Dr. Pratik Desai, who has founded several Silicon Valley startups, made waves online after he tweeted that people should be able to “live forever” by the end of the year. He explained that uploading videos of elders and loved ones will allow technology to synthesize their looks and voices after they leave their physical bodies. “Start regularly recording your parents,... 

Scientists at the University of Soochow in China have developed a new type of solar cell that can generate electricity even in rainy conditions. This breakthrough could revolutionize the renewable energy industry and make solar power more accessible to countries with high levels of rainfall. The researchers used a material called graphene to create a solar cell that can still generate power when exposed... 

At its annual investor meeting in Tampa, retail giant Walmart announced that over the next three years, it plans to convert 65 percent of its stores to a model of “automation.” In addition to laying off about 2,000 factory workers in the shorter term, the $388 billion multi-national corporation is eager to trim many more human employees in the coming years as it switches to a robot service format. Currently,... 

A high-profile artificial intelligence (AI) researcher is warning that unless all advanced AI systems and associated programs are immediately shut down, humanity will eventually become extinct at the hands of the life-destroying robots they are unleashing. Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), wrote an op-ed for TIME magazine this week explaining the... 

Scientists have unveiled a blood test designed to detect signs of cancer up to a year before tumors emerge. Results from a 1,000-patient trial have shown 100 percent accuracy, even identifying cancers in a control group of patients initially believed to be cancer-free. Published in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, the blood biopsy technique focuses on changes in the behavior of stem cells, presenting... 

The corporate-controlled media is finally coming around to accepting the truth about the electric vehicle (EV) revolution, which is not even close to being as environmentally friendly as its supporters and promoters claim. Reuters published a piece this week revealing that even the smallest EV accidents, including minor fender-benders, almost always result in insurance companies having to total the...