The Justice Department on Tuesday joined an escalating effort to squeeze money from companies who made the prescription painkillers that fueled America’s opioid crisis, saying it would back lawsuits by hundreds of cities, states and other local governments that accuse the manufacturers of fooling the public into thinking the drugs […]
Daily Archives: February 27, 2018
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Johanna Wanka, the former education minister, was reprimanded for responding to an AfD slogan at a Berlin protest rally in 2015 that read: “Red card for Merkel – asylum needs borders.” Ms Wanka issued the statement on the ministry’s website, at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis, saying the […]
Frances Frei is leaving Uber to return to teaching full time at Harvard, as well as develop an independent executive education program for companies. Uber Uber hired Frances Frei, a Harvard Business School professor, in June to help clean up its company culture. And now she’s leaving. Frei is moving […]
Late last month, while recovering in hospital, Kayleeann Hummell had an unusual epiphany after emergency surgery: She was grateful her health problems had happened now. When the high school senior was sent home by the school nurse in intense pain, she headed to a hospital. Within 10 minutes she was […]
A study published in the Lancet Public Health journal last week said heavy boozing is a “major factor” in all forms of the incurable illness, after observing more than a million adults diagnosed with dementia in France. Looking specifically at 57,000 cases of early-onset dementia as part of the study, […]
Amid Nokia’s slew of phone announcements during MWC 2018, the new Nokia 6 might have slipped under your radar. Sandwiched somewhere between the quirky, entry-level Nokia 8110 4G and the flashy, premium Nokia 8 Sirocco, the Nokia 6 is a steadfastly mid-tier phone running Google’s stripped-down Android One OS. The […]
Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE Again and again, men accused of sexual harassment in the wake of #MeToo have struck a common note in their responses, one that rings anywhere from false to bewildering: “The situation was mutual.” On the extreme end of the spectrum there’s movie boss Harvey Weinstein, […]
Although reviews will not be published just yet, critics who have seen it are now able to voice their initial reactions on social media. Whilst some are very positive, others are a little more reserved. Generally speaking, director Ava DuVernay has been praised for her attempts to adapt the 1962 […]
Although the call for improving STEM education is widespread, there is little guidance for teachers on how to do so. A team set out to outline challenges and find best practices for teachers to better integrate science, technology, engineering and math in their classrooms.
The defence ministry highlighted the “unsatisfactory readiness” of many key weapons systems in a 106-page report to parliament this week. The criticisms come amid increasing pubic outcry about the military’s failure to deal with the issue. The report backed up a prior parliamentary report released last week that spoke of […]
“It all could have been avoided if Johnthony Walker would have just slowed down and gone the speed limit and stayed off his phone,” Carrion said in opening statements. She said Walker was driving too fast to navigate a tight curve safely and drifted into the oncoming lane, then overcorrected, […]
The enormous Stratolaunch aircraft, created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, isn’t quite ready to fly. But he has taken the super-sized plane out on the runway for a test ride. Allen shared new footage of the Stratrolaunch taxiing on the runway over the weekend in Mojave, Calif. The Stratolaunch is […]
Unlike in Las Vegas, what happens in Syria refuses to stay in Syria. The country’s long war, sparked by pro-democracy protests in 2011 against a dictator, has created millions of refugees. The resulting power vacuum has sucked in dozens of foreign forces with competing interests. Yet out of Syria’s tragedy […]
Kate Middleton fulfils her role as Duchess of Cambridge everyday, and often carries out public engagements to meet members of the public. The 36-year-old mother-of-two to Prince George, four, and Prince Charlotte, two, is due to April. However, the expectant mother is far from slowing down her commitment to work […]
The Kona Electric also comes with Hyundai’s SmartSense suite of active and passive safety systems, including forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring and lane-keep assist. Caption by Andrew Krok / Photo by Hyundai
Mr Yun, originally born in South Korea, has held the position as a top US diplomat to North Korea since 2016, when he took the post under former US President Barack Obama. The foreign service veteran who is in his early 60s, visited North Korea last June to aid in […]
Constructed in an abandoned coal mine, the huge facility on the remote Arctic island of Svalbard is designed to safeguard up to 4.5 million types of plant from across the globe. Dubbed the ’Noah’s Ark’ of food crops, the Global Seed Vault is already home to more than one million […]
Genie Bouchard, 24, is a professional tennis player who has represented her country on the international stage. The blonde, whose full name is Eugenie, is hugely popular on Instagram. She also recently posed for Sports Illustrated in a set of skimpy swimwear, setting the hearts of her fans racing. It […]
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Would you trust a robot to take candid photos of your family, pets and kids? That’s the question Google is posing with the $250 Google Clips. It’s a tiny, 2-inch square of a camera with AI smarts: A neural network Google trained to snap 7-second videos whenever it sees something […]