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Apr 12, 2020

The Virus Gives AI a Chance to Prove It Can Be a Force for Good

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, privacy, robotics/AI, surveillance

Governments set aside privacy concerns as they use surveillance software to fight Covid-19.

Apr 12, 2020

Call for super-rich to donate more to tackle coronavirus pandemic

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The world’s richest people are being urged to urgently donate big chunks of their fortunes to the global effort to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, and help millions of people across the globe whose lives have been thrown into crisis by Covid-19.

Some billionaires – including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey – have committed huge amounts of their money to fund solutions to the unfolding crisis.


While some billionaires have pledged vast chunks of their fortunes others have been criticised for not giving enough, or even at all.

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Apr 11, 2020

Largest Arctic ozone hole ever recorded opens up over the North Pole

Posted by in category: climatology

👍hm, ok as I thought.


A hole in the ozone opens up every year above Antarctica — but scientists were surprised to find one on the other side of the planet.

Apr 11, 2020

I made a meme. #NSA #DeepState #Police

Posted by in category: privacy

Apr 11, 2020

Industry scrambles to stop fatal bird flu in South Carolina

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A less severe strain of bird flu had been detected along the North Carolina and South Carolina state recently but the case in Chesterfield County, South Carolina discovered on Monday was found to be a more fatal and easily spread strain.

Apr 11, 2020

Nigerians Fight to Protect the World’s Most Trafficked Mammal | National Geographic

Posted by in categories: education, government

Where was everyone when these channels were dedicating so much time and effort to help create awereness and get support for these creatures in Africa?

The government that neglected this eventhough they are not from Africa have neglected something that has now created, trillions of dollars of losses, and even more is coming up.

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Apr 11, 2020

NASA’s Offering Online Astronaut Training While You’re Stuck in Lockdown

Posted by in categories: habitats, space travel

Who hasn’t dreamt of escaping to the stars? Especially now, with most of us confined to limited spaces and steeped in tragic news.

NASA and the ISS National Lab are ready to help. They’ve developed a range of adventurous programs and activities for all the children stuck in home lockdown, including a training program to become a home astronaut, build a hovercraft, launch rockets, and many more.

Apr 11, 2020

Coronavirus ‘could be spreading across the globe through farts’ claim doctors

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Hold the farts in?


Doctors have made the foul discovery that farting could spread the Covid-19 disease – unless infected people wear pants which can protect this from happening.

Apr 11, 2020

Glowing silicon nanowire reveals how to put optics in your CPU

Posted by in categories: computing, nanotechnology

Silicon-germanium alloy glows, may be future CPU optical communication laser.

Apr 11, 2020

Biggest 3D map of the universe yet

Posted by in category: space

O,.o circa 2017.


Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey used the most luminous objects in the universe — quasars — to create their new 3D map of space.