The Mayflower had a few false starts before its trailblazing sea voyage to America more than 400 years back. Today, its synthetic intelligence-powered namesake is having some glitches of its namesake. A slick robotic trimaran retracing the 1620 journey of...
Wolfgang Huste, like other German residents, knew that a flood was imminent. He says that he was not told how terrible it would be by anyone. Ahrweiler's 66-year old antiquarian bookseller said that the loudspeaker announcements at 8 p.m. on the...
Census Bureau statisticians and experts from outside are trying to solve a mystery. According to agency documents, residents did not answer a variety of questions about their sex, race and Hispanic heritage, family relationships, age, or a count of how...
The Data Protection Authority of the Netherlands said Thursday that TikTok was fined 750,000 euros ($885,000) because it did not provide a privacy statement. This is because many children who use the video-sharing app will be unable understand the...
Sen. King is a member secretive Senate Intelligence Committee. Angus King is concerned about hackers. He said that he received some tips and advice from security personnel this year on how to keep his phone safe. Step 1: Turn off your phone. Step...
Joe Biden, President of the United States, tempered his assertion that social media giants "kill people" for misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. He said Monday that he hoped that they wouldn't take it "personally" but instead would save lives. Facebook and...
A religious publication used data from a smartphone to determine the sexual orientation of a Roman Catholic official. This revealed a problem beyond the debate about church doctrine and priestly celibacy. There are few restrictions in the U.S. on what...
Officials said that India and China have failed to meet a deadline set by the U.N. to submit new plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order for the global body include their pledges in its report for...
Facebook shut down the personal accounts and investigation of two New York University researchers into misinformation propagated through political ads. Facebook claims that the researchers broke its terms of service and collected unauthorized data from its vast network. However, academics claim...
Twitter is deleting its fleets of tweets after they failed to catch on. The company started testing twitters that disappeared after 24 hours in March last year in Brazil. Fleets were created to address concerns raised by new users who may be put...