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Hundreds of people staged a protest Wednesday in Kosovo’s capital Pristina, urging the government to fight extremely high pollution. Protesters blamed the government and local authorities for allowing hazardous levels of fine particulate matter, an air pollutant called PM2.5. Even…
For children, emergency department visits for TBI from sports and recreation-related injuries more than doubled from 2001 to 2012. We know that TBI can have devastating effects that include impaired thinking, memory and emotional functioning. But now, new research suggests…
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made fixing Facebook his personal challenge this year, and the company has already announced a slew of changes to this end. Among them, showing users more “meaningful” content from friends and family and emphasizing local news.…
The centuries-old process of releasing defendants on bail, long the province of judicial discretion, is getting a major assist … courtesy of artificial intelligence. In late August, Hercules Shepherd Jr. walked up to the stand in a Cleveland courtroom, dressed…
To Mark Zuckerberg, fixing Facebook means many things — protecting users from abuse, preventing elections meddling from malicious actors, weeding out fake news and “making sure time spent on Facebook is well spent.” To critics, it’s all that and then…
The crisis in the Maldives started earlier this week after the country’s Supreme Court had ordered to release all opposition members. The Maldives law enforcers have surrounded the Maldives Parliament amid possible impeachment of the country’s president Abdulla Yameen, Avas news agency…
