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The FBI is cracking down on fraud against the elderly
On March 7th, the FBI announced the results of its year-long effort to investigate and prosecute those who use technology - from telephones to social media - to ...
Can telehealth be convenient and compassionate?
By now we all know that earlier this month a man in California was informed he was dying via a robot. Early headlines had people (at least the ones who only ...
Is the NIH trying to discourage collaboration between U.S. and Chinese researchers?
According to a report in the journal Science, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, sent a letter to 10,000 U.S.-based research ...
Study shows Facebook users are happier if they quit the social network for a month
In somewhat surprising, but not totally unexpected, news it looks like quitting Facebook for a month makes people happier. This is according to new research out ...
Time spent in front of screens hinders child development
In a new study that shouldn’t surprise anyone, researchers found that children aged 2-5 years old who spent more time in front of screens fared worse in child ...
Sad news: The moon plants are dead
Well, they might have represented everything the Chinese were able to do before the rest of us in space just yesterday, but now the plants that just sprouted on ...
Hulu releases a documentary about Fyre Festival days before Netflix
It looks like Hulu is about to create some drama with its biggest competitor Netflix. Hulu released its own take on the epically disastrous Fyre Festival just ...
A plant has sprouted on the moon!
China made history earlier this month by being the first Earthlings to land on the so-called dark side of the moon (the side that never faces Earth). Now they ...