European media investigations detail how the US spied on German Chancellor Merkel
Denmark’s complicity in the NSA spying scandal against German politicians has been revealed in a joint European media investigation. Denmark’s secret service helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy on EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a European media investigation published on Sunday revealed....
Myanmar military junta slaps two journalists with two years in jail
A governing military junta-controlled court in Myanmar has sentenced Aung Kyaw, a reporter with the Democratic Voice of Burma, and Ko Zaw Zaw, a freelance reporter with Mizzima News, under a colonial-era law to two years in prison. Following the sentences, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the...
When Google’s photo organising service tagged Blacks as ‘gorillas’ it walked AI into Hall of Shame
When a person dies in a car crash in the US, data on the incident is typically reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Federal law requires that civilian airplane pilots notify the National Transportation Safety Board of in-flight fires and some other incidents. The grim registries are intended...
Mr President, when a regime fails its citizens silence becomes betrayal and inaction treason
I am a Kenyan citizen and resident taxpayer who, alongside 48 million of my fellow citizens, has watched with utter dismay and increasing frustration as your government has run the affairs of our land with criminal negligence, thereby placing in great jeopardy not just our present fortunes but our children’s...
Some Americans refuse to see Covid as a threat, suspect vaccines and institutions
America’s vaccine campaign has collapsed from its previous highs. While at one point in mid-April more than three million people received the shot each day, now only around 1.2 million are – a rate that’s less than half of what it was at the peak. So, the US might not...
NASA sends two spacecraft to Venus roughly 30 years since its last mission
NASA had a surprise in store for planetary scientists on Thursday morning. During a “State of NASA” briefing, the agency announced that roiling, toxic Venus will be the target of the next two missions in its highly competitive Discovery programme. “These two sister missions, both aimed to understand how Venus...