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Fake Facebook accounts are influencing African elections
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If you lose a body part, other bits get a sensory boost – thank you, brain
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Kenya is allegedly selling citizen data to highest corporate bidder
According to Dr. Roselyn K. Akombe, Chief of Policy Planning and Guidance at the United Nations and ex-commissioner of Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the country's government is going to sell all the citizen data collected through the Huduma Namba ...
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Research reveals surprising relationship between climate change and fertility rate
Climate change will shape every aspect of human life – often in complex ways. Take the question of deciding how many children to have, for example. A new analysis suggests that climate change could increase fertility rates in tropical countries, in turn magnifying the impacts of ...
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New analysis of 'moonquakes' indicates the moon isn't dead
We tend to think of the moon as the archetypal “dead” world. Not only is there no life, almost all its volcanic activity died out billions of years ago. Even the youngest lunar lava is old enough to have become scarred by numerous impact craters that have been collected over the ...
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Why Snapchat’s new gender swap feature is problematic for many trans people
You’ve probably seen it all over your social media timelines and stories this week — friends using Snapchat’s new gender-bending ...
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Why this geneticist says we should stop human evolution
Measles cases in the US have hit a 25-year high, with 78 new infections in the past week alone. In a sign of the times, a cruise ship with hundreds of Scientologists on board was quarantined in St Lucia after one passenger was diagnosed with the disease. It’s the sort of news you ...
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Here's how we can change the Earth's orbit to escape the expanding sun
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth’s orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun – and prevent a collision with Jupiter. The scenario may one day come true. In ...
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South African voters fear mobile political campaigns will steal their personal info
Mobile technology will arguably go down in history as the most successful innovation of our lifetime. Mobile devices, especially phones, are ubiquitous in large parts of the world. On the African continent, the rates of mobile phone ownership and access are rising exponentially. Many ...
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Designing products for people with disabilities has never been so important
Google and Microsoft have designed a variety of assistive tools and services that allows differently abled people lead a ...
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White House launches social media survey to collect Conservative tears
The Trump administration on Wednesday launched a new tool where pissed off Conservatives can whine about social media bias. ...
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Skype didn't deliver on P2P's promise, but Estonia has
Skype was one of the bright lights of the P2P internet era, but failed to live up to its promise. It did make a difference ...
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This tool lets you check if a website is blocked in China
Wikipedia has been added to Beijing's no-no list, along with big sites like Facebook. But what other sites are blocked? Comparitech ...
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Nuking asteroids could save the Earth — but we need to make it legal first
The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master ...
