Facebook’s GlobalCoin is expected to launch in early 2020 and began testing by the end of this year. After hints that Facebook was entering the digital currency world began last December, multiple reports now are ...
“People shouldn’t have to crowdfund for their health care. We wanted PhRMA to have to face firsthand the toll their greed takes on Americans across our country.” (By Inequality.org) Day in and day out, American ...
(The Conversation) Alabama’s governor signed a bill this week that criminalizes nearly all abortions, threatening providers with a felony conviction and up to 99 years in prison. Author: Rachel Mikva, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, ...
“We the public, we the people, developed this drug, we paid for this drug. There’s no reason this should be $2,000 a month. People are dying because of it.” (Common Dreams) During a House hearing ...
“I don’t think we spend nearly enough time focusing on antitrust measures. And the truth of the matter is I think it’s something we should take a really hard look at.” Social media giant Facebook ...
“This policy would, over time, cut or take away entirely food assistance, health and other forms of basic assistance from millions of people who struggle to put food on the table, keep a roof over ...
“With this fluorescence, you see the tumor so much clearer because it lights up like a Christmas tree.” Researchers used a synthetic form of scorpion venom to illuminate brain tumors via a new imaging method ...
“Food is no longer valued for its ability to sustain life, but only for its ability to generate profits.” Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping and comprehensive plan to transform American agriculture on Sunday, centered ...
If we can turn more of this innovation to address the needs of the poor and marginalized, we will reduce a great deal of the fear that has driven history for so long. (By Jesmane ...
“The one thing I hear over and over again across the country is people’s stories of battling with mental health and addiction — people need help, but they just can’t get it.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar ...
“The industry is positioning Tobacco 21 as the only thing that needs to be done on tobacco prevention.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged to introduce legislation to raise the legal age to buy ...
Free software developer and privacy activist Ola Bini, who is in prison in Ecuador, reflects on the responsibilities of privilege, his commitment to privacy and the risks poses by the rise of surveillance. (Peoples Dispatch) ...
DDE, a breakdown product of the long-banned organochlorine insecticide DDT, was detected in 55.7% of the wristbands. (Beyond Pesticides) Research by the youth participatory action team of the CHAMACOS of the Salinas Evaluating Chemicals in ...
“I’m confident it will be obvious that there’s no substance to this case, and that it will collapse into nothing.” On April 11 Ecuadorian authorities arrested the Swedish cryptographer and privacy advocate Ola Bini in ...
“And now we are heading towards a full-scale arms race of artificial intelligence, which is very, very bad news.” Artificial intelligence will play a pivotal role in shaping the future global order, as countries compete ...
The conference will focus on how evolving food safety systems need to keep pace with how food is produced and consumed. The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a major conference on food safety next ...
“If, in fact, it is possible to restore cellular activity to brain tissue that we thought was irreversibly lost in the past, of course, people are going to want to apply this eventually in humans.” ...
The plaintiff presented evidence that 3M falsified testing results and marketing materials in order to sell their protective equipment to the U.S. military. In July of 2018, combat equipment manufacturer 3M, agreed to pay a ...
Both the private and public sector are competing in a new 21st-century space race, but will space just become the next militarized zone? From President Trump telling NASA to revisit the moon by 2024, to ...
Feds bring alleged widespread Medicare fraud, Operation Brace Yourself, into court. Federal prosecutors charged 24 people including doctors and owners of medical equipment companies in a $1.2 billion scam on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The ...
A report in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine states that alcohol abuse costs the United States a whopping $249 billion in 2010 alone. America’s epidemic of opioid abuse and the increasing problem of methamphetamine ...
"The indicators already show that we’re falling apart. America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years."
Artificial intelligence technologies are getting advanced enough to be able to approximate individuals’ writing or speaking style, and even facial expressions. (Ana Santos Rutschman, Saint Louis University) When artificial intelligence systems start getting creative, they ...
“If you are a form of infrastructure, you shouldn’t be able to compete with all the businesses dependent on your infrastructure.” Three women, 2020 Democratic hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and 30-year-old ...
MSG91 is launching an SMS messaging service that allows a brand to text in the users native language – a feature that could allay SMS data privacy concerns. In November of last year, Tech Crunch ...
“This lawsuit contains detailed allegations about the Sackler family and their attempt to hide the vast fortunes they collected at the expense of actual lives.” In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began to ...
Families of Ethiopian Airlines crash victims filed a lawsuit against US-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing in a U.S. Federal Court, the first such lawsuit to follow the tragedy that claimed 157 lives in early March. The ...
A San Francisco federal court awarded a Sonoma County landowner $80.3 million on March 27, in the second lawsuit against Monsanto’s popular herbicide, RoundUp. Edwin Hardeman, 70, is one of 11,200 product users who have ...
North Carolina’s WakeMed Hospital is participating in an FAA pilot program using drones to fly blood samples between buildings at the hospital’s Raleigh Campus. WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh is one of nine institutions participating in ...
Google executives are working with China to produce a version of its search engine that will censor topics deemed unsuitable by the Chinese government. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is meeting with General Joseph Dunford, chairman ...
The Affordable Care Act is back on the chopping block with both Republicans and Democrats equally determined to repeal or save the act, respectively. Buoyed by the momentum of the Mueller probe’s conclusion, the Trump ...
Finnish owned Nokia is sending cell phone data packages to a Chinese server for an unknown reason. A report from the Norweigan Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) reveals that some Nokia 7 phones are secretly sending personal ...
The New Mexico Environmental Defense agency is suing the U.S. Air Force for toxic contamination of groundwater surrounding multiple Air Force bases across the state, resulting from past military firefighting activities. New Mexico’s Environmental Defense ...
The US has joined the rest of the world in grounding Boeing 727 MAX 8 and 9 aircraft following international pressure due to a fatal air accident involving the MAX 8 in Ethiopia that claimed ...
The lawsuit is the first to go to a jury after a bombshell Reuters investigation in December exposed what Johnson & Johnson knew about the potential contamination of its baby powder. (Reuters) – A California jury ...
According to a recent study, glyphosate, the primary pesticide in the weed killer Roundup, was found in popular beers and wines. In recent years, scientists and public health groups have conducted studies that found glyphosate ...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is stepping down after less than two years in office – a move that came as a surprise to his supporters and his critics. The 46-year-old Scott ...
Coal miners have literally provided the fuel for the unprecedented industrialization of this country. (By Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation) Coal mining continues to be one of the most hazardous professions in our society. Even ...
Gupta described his patient as “functionally cured” and “in remission”, but cautioned: “It’s too early to say he’s cured.” (Reuters) – An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be ...
In a ‘historic judgment,’ big tobacco was dealt a major blow by an appeals court in Canada. (By Allison Lampert and Martinne Geller, Reuters) The Court of Appeal of Quebec upheld on Friday the bulk of ...
Conjuring fond memories of the 1969 lunar landing, SpaceX successfully launched the first privately funded lunar mission and a little lunar lander named Beresheet is making history. On Thursday evening Feb. 28, the SpaceX Falcon ...
On Friday, Feb. 15, the Kentucky House of Representatives passed a bill that will ban most statewide abortions if the US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. If Roe v. Wade is overturned or the ...
Researchers in Toronto hope a new drug will help people who suffer from memory loss due to old age, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and depression. Memory loss is partly linked to levels of a neurotransmitter called GABA, ...
If GAO measures aren’t implemented across the board, it’s possible the United States electoral system could be hit during the 2020 election season, providing a major threat to the democratic process. The United States Government ...
A new Do Not Track bill could establish privacy and cybersecurity standards for companies and executives, and could even impose jail time for those who fail to comply. A privacy bill recently proposed by U.S. ...
The consequences of pricey pharmaceuticals are significant in terms of costs and diminished health. Close to 20 percent of adults report skipping medications because they are concerned about costs. (By Simon F. Haeder, West Virginia ...
Can one family singlehandedly create a national opioid epidemic? Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family came close. If you’re a keen observer at the Guggenheim Museum or the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan ...
At least 1 percent of American teenagers are using the drug Flakka, but it could be more than that. The first national study on Flakka was just published and it had some disturbing findings regarding ...
Public Interest Advocates, Local Governments, and Others Defend the Open Internet Order (EFF) The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard the case of Mozilla v. FCC today to determine whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is allowed to repeal ...
“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one.” A team of Isreali doctors has made the bold claim that they will have a “complete cure” for cancer in a year’s time. The Jerusalem Post ...
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