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In a damning indictment of health care in the US, the family of Nobel prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman sold his award to cover end-of-life medical expenses. Lederman, the physicist credited with inventing the term ‘god particle,’ died last week at a nursing…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The International Monetary Fund projects that global growth will remain steady over 2018–19 at last year’s rate of 3.7 percent, 0.2 percentage point below the April predictions, according to its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. “…our…
Google will shut down its social network after a massive security hole for years allowed user profile data to be accessed. Turns out, Facebook is not the only tech giant to suffer a heavy body blow over user data security. This time,…
A new test, similar to the Turing Test, but much less complicated, offers to allow humans to quickly identify if they are communicating with a robot or a fellow human. After over half a century the Turing Test appears to have gone…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United States urged Saudi Arabia to ensure that a thorough investigation is conducted into the vanishing of a prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US State Secretary Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday. “State Department…
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – The Mexican Office for National Defense (SEDENA) announced on Monday an emergency plan in the Quintana Roo state, where world-famous resort city of Cancun is located, as tropical storm Michael is approaching the coast. “The personnel…
