Science & Tech
26 Oct
Maddens is one of the hundreds of social media users who are accusing the world's largest social media platforms – Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok – of censoring accounts or actively reducing the reach of pro-Palestine content, a practice known as shadowbanning.
24 Oct
As the Israel-Hammas war rages, Meta has profusely apologised for adding ‘terrorist’ to some Palestinian Instagram accounts and blamed an auto-translation glitch for the apparent gaffe.
22 Oct 2023
Meta, X and Telegram fail to stop Russian propaganda. Why is that? Here’s what you need to know about how Russia influences your feed – and how you can protect yourself.
22 Oct 2023
Are you constantly on your mobile phone? If your online activities have grown more attractive than ‘real’ life, and you are neglecting obligations and social contacts, it could be an addiction.
21 Oct 2023
Two viral videos are circulating in India on accounts with Islamophobic and pro-Israel tendencies, which claim to show Palestinians faking injuries amid the war between Israel and Hamas. These videos are old and have nothing to do with the recent conflict. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
20 Oct 2023
Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel was a shocking breach of Israeli defence technology, which is among the world's most renowned. But things weren’t exactly easy before the war. Investment in Israeli startups plunged amid a global tech sector turndown and domestic political turmoil. Many young tech industry workers have now been drafted.
20 Oct 2023
From its very beginning, artificial intelligence has sparked debate in the world of culture. Since May, Hollywood has seen massive disruption because of the actors' and writers' strikes – one of their main concerns being about the impact of AI on their future. So is AI a menace to artists, or can it be a useful creative tool when properly regulated?
20 Oct 2023
Nicolas Cruaud, the founder of Néolithe, is the winner of the 2023 Ivy Tech prize for young French entrepreneurs, which is being awarded this week in Paris. The company was created in 2019 in western France and devised a new eco-friendly process that creates a type of building material thanks to accelerated fossilisation. This allows the company to take non-recyclable waste and turn it into small mineral granules than can then be used in the construction sector.
20 Oct 2023
Nokia's financial struggles has meant it will axe between 9,000 and 14,000 jobs by 2026 to cut costs.
19 Oct 2023
One works for NASA and the other has won the "Space for Youth" award. Brothers Marco Romero and Marco Paulo are creating projects that change lives in Angola.
19 Oct 2023
To counter potential enemy missiles, Israel can count on its aerial defence shield known as the "Iron Dome". According to several sources close to the Israeli ministry of defence, Israel could also decide to deploy another air defence laser system, called "Iron Beam", earlier than expected.
19 Oct 2023
Solar Team Eindhoven, a group of students from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e), has successfully completed a gruelling 620-mile test drive over Morocco's challenging terrains.
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Senegal announces a record seizure of cocaine; the most ever intercepted on land by authorities. Over a ton of the illicit drug was confiscated from a truck near the border with Mali.
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For months, Europe has been rocked by protests as farmers decry high costs and low prices, in addition to what they call unfair competition from Ukraine, and the constraints of environmental regulations. EU elites are worried that the farmers' movement will boost anti-establishment parties in the European elections this June. The EU Commission has put forward proposals to ease the burden on farmers, but environmental groups say this is a short-term political tactic that undermines elements of the EU's own Green Deal – and will ultimately lead to more climate chaos for everybody, including farmers. We unpick this with the EU's Agriculture Commissioner, Janusz Wojciechowski.
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The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years before the genocide in Srebrenica and eight years before the war in Kosovo, Vukovar was the first city in the former Yugoslavia to suffer ethnic cleansing, in 1991.
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Doctors in Kenya have been on strike for five weeks, demanding better wages and working conditions. President William Ruto says his government is out of money to pay the medics. Meanwhile, patients remain without care.
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The case had been noted as an extreme example of European governments' efforts to thwart NGOs helping migrants in the Mediterranean.
