Digital Gems

National Geographic finds continued animal suffering and exploitation in these YouTube videos. Here's what's being done months after the platform pledged to take swift action.

When hospitals acquire physician practices, it can influence how individual physicians practice medicine, two new studies show.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson is aiming to beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos into space by nine days. Branson’s company announced Thursday evening that its next test flight will be July 11 and that its founder will be among the six people on board.

Mucormycosis has killed hundreds in India and forced many to have an eye removed.

A new general language machine learning model is pushing the boundaries of what AI can do.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed adult vaccination rates by age through May 22, finding 80 percent of adults older than 65 had been immunized compared with just 38.3 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds.

Smart spectacles could be tech's next big hardware platform — if they can overcome technical hurdles and social dilemmas.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Privacy experts aren’t so keen on the idea.

Patients are desperate for hope. But there are serious concerns about Biogen’s new $56,000 treatment.

Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a criminal complaint against Binance over unregistered operations.

Research suggests humans cannot slow the rate at which they get older because of biological constraints

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said companies must report incidents within one day of learning of a crash.

It's greater than the population of Baltimore or Milwaukee.

The strongest state facial recognition law yet.

As recently as June 4, states with higher vaccination rates did not have significantly lower case rates than states where few people were vaccinated.

User data appears to be scraped from LinkedIn and other sources

In other developments, the CDC added Delta as a variant of concern and issued its first guidance on 'long COVID'.

An analysis of health insurance records of almost two million coronavirus patients found new issues in nearly a quarter — including those whose Covid infection was mild or asymptomatic.

A flaw in how Google Knowledge Panel matches images may have caused an innocent man to be identified as a serial killer

Blood drawn from nine people in the earliest days of the pandemic tested positive for the infection. But some experts questioned the results.

Facebook in recent years has laid out an aggressive strategy of building its own consumer hardware to lessen its dependence on Apple and Google, makers of the two dominant mobile operating systems. The seriousness of its ambitions is reflected in its headcount: Nearly 10,000 people are working ...

The study shows that people with lower income and education have worse lung health, even though air quality has improved in recent decades.

Scholars and advocates have proposed algorithmic impact assessments (AIAs) as a regulatory strategy for addressing and correcting algorithmic harms. An AIA-base

Listen to this episode from WSJ’s The Future of Everything on Spotify. The battle against noise has been waged, rather quietly, for decades. And yet, urban noise pollution is getting worse. A growing body of evidence indicates that it is more than a nuisance- persistent exposure to noise can cause chronic health issues. Anyone can be impacted, but marginalized communities most often live closer to sources of unwanted noise. In this episode, we look at the impacts of urban noise, new efforts to understand and track it and consider design solutions that can help mitigate unwanted sound.

WHO guidance

Using 1992–2014 data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the present study examines the nature and characteristics of hate crimes against Asian Americans by comparing them with those of hate crimes against African Americans ...

Some Austin cyclists are not happy about the robots using bike lanes, while others are optimistic that sharing their path will lead to good things down the road.

Many Asian Americans live daily with the corrosive effects of racism and racialized violence, yet there's very little research funded on Asian American health.