Don’t you find that sometimes, you don’t have to have any connection to events you read in the news to feel personally involved? We looked back on the last year’s stories to remind ourselves of those moments when the news stirred our hearts, evoked our anger, filled us with pride, darkened us with dread or […]
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The heat has been ferocious. The cold was clearly imported from deep space. UV indicators were so bad you could get skin cancer just thinking about them. Climatologists had a record year for grumpiness. And the carbon footprint is taking on Sasquatch proportions. Our planet in 2023 was hotter, colder and less protected than any […]
An Oppo-BMW collab is underway, with a project that'll allow users to use your Oppo Find N3 smartphone as a digital key for some BMW cars.
A woman 99.9% of us have never heard of, has just died. Yet what we owe her is incalculable. You see, NASA Shuttle Mission Specialist Mary Cleave didn’t use her time in orbit staring at the vast and hypnotic majesty of space. She focused her attention on the mess below her. Namely the human-triggered deterioration […]
Social Media App Parler Returns Today’s announcement about the unshuttering of controversial conservative social media platform Parler has raised some fairly profound social questions. The first question being how on earth can you write ‘conservative’ immediately after ‘controversial’. The app, which was thrown out of Google and Apple Online stores, became a megaphone for everything […]
The Esports zone is larger than 500,100 square meters, of which 100,000 are devoted to dining, entertainment, and gaming sales.
It’s late December and the media are amping up pre-election chatter. The United States, the United Kingdom and India are all going to the polls. It’s the biggest election year in the history of the democratic process. The dominant narrative is, of course, AI. Deepfake video and audio content are threatening to laugh in the […]
A source of information during the Israeli-Palestinian war has been network platforms. Now, social media and human rights come face to face.
With seven No.1 songs on the charts, The Weeknd has just scored another hit . He has donated $2.5 million to the United Nation’s World Food Programme, more commonly known as WFP. This was done through his XO Humanitarian Fund. This amount will ensure that 173,000 Palestinians have meals for two weeks. Abel Tesfaye (his […]
A social media platform with Syrian roots, Al-bo’bo, sheds light on psychological hardships in a society where these topics are taboo. The idea of a traditional bogeyman called in Arabic Al-bo’bo was used to scare misbehaving children. Although the name suggests one thing, the concept behind it is completely different. The Emergence of the Concept […]