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Fake news and the election campaign - how worried should voters be?

Andrea Carson, 2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University, Max Grmping, Senior Lecturer, Griffith University

shutterstock JRdes/Shutterstock The spread of electoral misinformation and disinformation is undermining democracies around the world. The World Economic Forum has identified the proliferation of f ...[Continue Reading]

The Conversation Africa

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The Prototype: These Bacteria Can Generate Electricity

Alex Knapp, Forbes Staff, Alex Knapp, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/

In this weeks edition of The Prototype, we look at quantum computing for image recognition, a gene therapy using a patients own skin cells, electricity-generating bacteria, using physics to cook perf ...[Continue Reading]

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Archaeologists Uncovered a Painting That May Prove the Existence of a Mysterious Creature

Tim Newcomb

<ul><li>Archaeologists discovered a rock painting of an animal from at least 200 years ago in South Africa that may match with fossils found in the area. </li><li>The art depicts a horned serpent th ...[Continue Reading]

Popular Mechanics

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Trump is Destroying Our Oldest Science Agency

Rebecca Watson

This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Last week I talked about a new study that showed that conservati ...[Continue Reading]

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Trump Signs Executive Order Defunding Biased NPR, PBS

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night axing taxpayer funding for biased news outlets NPR and PBS. National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service receive t ...[Continue Reading]

Daily Signal

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How to analyze your entire Amazon library with ChatGPT - and what you can learn

David Gewirtz

MirageC/Getty Images Have you ever wanted a complete list of all the books you bought on Amazon? Do you want to know which are physical books, which are Kindle ebooks, and which are Audible books? D ...[Continue Reading]

ZDNet

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