DECEMBER 16, 2022
Free speech experts and human rights organizations blasted Elon Musk's decision to suspend several high-profile journalists from Twitter on Thursday, with some raising concerns that the tech tycoon has created an opening for authoritarian regimes to intensify their crackdowns on independent reporting and political dissent.
In interviews, academics who specialize in freedom of expression and technology expressed worries...
DECEMBER 16, 2022
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - When Daniel DePetris, a U.S.-based foreign affairs analyst, received an email in October from the director of the 38 North think-tank commissioning an article, it seemed to be business as usual.
It wasn't.
The sender was actually a suspected North Korean spy seeking information, according to those involved and three cybersecurity researchers.
Instead of infecting his...
DECEMBER 16, 2022
A photo illustration showing former President Donald J. Trump’s newly released digital trading card collection. Incentives to buy the $99 cards include entry into a series of sweepstakes to meet Mr. Trump or golf at one of his properties. - STF/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Donald J. Trump’s political opponents have long criticized him as something of a...
DECEMBER 15, 2022
After disrupting the telecom services space, multi-billionaire Mukesh Ambani has launched his next offensive. This time, he is eyeing the country’s vast fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) market, which is already the fourth-largest in the world.
Armed with a host of fast-moving packaged food and beverages (F&B), Ambani’s Reliance today forayed into the market under its in-house brand...
DECEMBER 15, 2022
India on Tuesday, 13 December, strongly condemned the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) by saying that the outfit has "lost its credibility". The Ministry of External Affairs made the statement after OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha visited the Line of Control on the Pakistani side and was briefed on the situation by the Pakistan military. Mr. Taha also prayed...
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The grammatical conundrum that academics have been unable to answer since the fifth century BC has been resolved by a PhD student at Cambridge University. According to reports, Rishi Rajpopat, 27, has decrypted a book penned by Panini, a master of the Sanskrit language. Around two and a half thousand years ago, Master Panini lived.
According to academics,...
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Narayana Murthy, in response to a question about succession plans, rued that his earlier decision to not allow the children of Infosys founders or the next generation of promoters to work at the company was “completely wrong”.
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani on Thursday called himself ‘last of the jokers left’ at Infosys at an event in Bengaluru that...
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Not remembering numbers could be an early sign of dementia (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
It could be possible to spot signs of dementia up to nine years before diagnosis, a new study has found.
The findings, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, mean that future at-risk patients could be screened to help identify those who might...
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Donald Trump walked into a comic book universe of internet mockery on Thursday, when in a carefully trailed announcement he introduced his “official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card” collection with a picture of himself in superhero costume, cape and “Trump Champion” belt.
“Just when you thought this grifter couldn’t humiliate himself any more than he already has,” wrote...
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Sandra Lindsay is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, N.Y., on Dec. 14, 2020. (Mark Lennihan / AP Pool file)
Two years after the first Covid shots went into arms, a growing chorus of researchers is calling for a new generation of vaccines that provide broader...
