The omicron BA…2 variant spreads about 30% more easily and has caused surges in other countries. Its steady increase in the U.S. raises questions about the wisdom of rolling back COVID restrictions.
Big Tech has a lot of ambitions for the Metaverse, and that might be really bad news for our privacy.
It was always going to come to something like this. But now, everyone at work may be even more concerned about what they write and say.
Quite a bit of my consulting work lately has focused on helping clients counter false information spreading online. This sort of engagement can very quickly lead to rough and murky waters, especially if an organization does not arm itself with proper ongoing situational awareness tools in order to differentiate between the bad actors who are steering the narrative and the people unknowingly posting false information.
Much of the discourse on ‘fake news’ these days conflates three notions: misinformation, disinformation and mal-information. It’s important to distinguish messages that are true from those that are false, and messages that are created, produced or distributed by “agents” who intend to do harm from those that are not. I recommend that you ensure your online comms and digital engagement folks are well versed in key definitions from the Council of Europe’s Information Disorder Report:
A new model, available as an online calculator, estimates the impact of dietary changes on life expectancy.
This kind of “merger” is so rare that only two stars of this type are known.
This merger takes a pretty exact mass range of two white dwarves, one that causes one star to thrash the other and pull its gas on top.
It’s time to explore the impact Web3 could have, as mass crypto adoption may be on the horizon, but how is it going to happen?
Omar Degan wants to transform the way the Somali capital of Mogadishu rebuilds by tapping into the country’s cultural heritage.
