Facebook hires high-ranking US State Department lawyer
Facebook said Monday it has hired a high-ranking US State Department lawyer credited with helping craft the controversial Patriot Act as the social network's new general counsel.
Facebook said Monday it has hired a high-ranking US State Department lawyer credited with helping craft the controversial Patriot Act as the social network's new general counsel.
Internet
Apr 23, 2019
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Since late last year, Facebook has been actively shutting down accounts responsible for spreading hoaxes in some countries, especially those holding general elections.
Internet
Mar 25, 2019
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For the first time ever, researchers have been able to peek deep into the mantle of the Earth under an ultraslow mid-ocean ridge, where they have been able to observe mantle melting and growth of the Earth's crust.
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2019
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Concerns about "fake news" have dominated discussions about the relationship between the media and politics in the developed world in recent years. The extraordinary amount of attention paid in scholarship and in public debates ...
Internet
Nov 21, 2018
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Whether they're tracking the future spread of an epidemic, or determining where best to distribute a vaccine during an outbreak, today's disease researchers depend on reliable computer models.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 20, 2018
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Sometimes the response to the outbreak of a disease can make things worse—such as when people panic and flee, potentially spreading the disease to new areas. The ability to anticipate when such overreactions might occur ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 14, 2015
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Turkey raises and releases thousands of non-native guineafowl to eat ticks that carry the deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus. Yet research suggests guineafowl eat few ticks, but carry the parasites on their feathers, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2012
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Imagine this: Firefighters enter a several football field-sized, 60-foot high, pitch-black warehouse and they can't see insidethey don't know if there is an inferno or a small fire with a lot of smoke. It's a very ...
Engineering
Feb 2, 2011
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If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users.
Telecom
Nov 17, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether for introduced muskrats in Europe or oak trees in the United Kingdom, zebra mussels in United States lakes or agricultural pests around the world, scientists have tried to find new ways of controlling ...
Ecology
Sep 17, 2009
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