Humans are mammals. Therefore, they can breastfeed their offspring, and they should. There is no shortage of evidence of the tremendous health benefits that come…
The future of shopping is trying things on in augmented reality
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Ordering something online is quicker and sometimes cheaper than going to a store, but it still requires a certain leap of faith because you can’t…
It’s so hard to fight fake news on WhatsApp that Facebook is buying newspaper ads
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The spread of fake news on WhatsApp is so rampant in India that Facebook has resorted to an old-fashioned method of trying to fight it:…
Netflix is making it easier to watch shows on mobile
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Netflix is figuring out how to make TV work on your smartphone, where downloading a TV show can mean less room for selfies or devour…
As bitcoin declines, Coinbase’s app is dropping in popularity
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The bear market for bitcoin and other virtual tokens has dragged down Coinbase, a digital-asset exchange and darling of the crypto-startup world. As prices plunge,…
China now owns more than 70% of Kenya’s external debt
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Kenya’s public debt load recently surpassed the 5 trillion shillings mark ($50 billion), renewing questions over the government’s borrowing binge, how it would show the…
NASA’s chief wants former astronaut Janet Kavandi to help run things. Trump is looking at the senate’s admin guy
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How much space expertise does NASA need in its top office to launch humans safely into space? NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine is a former lawmaker,…
Liu Xia, widow of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo, might be free at last—thanks to Germany
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It’s been almost a year since Nobel peace prize winner, writer, and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo passed away of liver cancer in custody in…
India’s investments in renewable energy are growing faster than even China’s
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China may be the world’s renewable energy leader, but where the sector’s growth is concerned, India is leaving its neighbour behind. Investments into clean energy…
These magnetic robots might someday crawl around inside you
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Engineers at MIT have developed tiny magnetic robots that could one day be used as biomedical devices inside humans. The robots, which are about the…
All the scientific support for breastfeeding that the US apparently didn’t read
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“Breastmilk makes the world healthier, smarter, and more equal,” an editorial (pdf) published in the medical journal The Lancet declared in 2016. The statement was…
Ant-man superpower or just an ant?
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Marvel’s latest tent-pole wonder Ant-man and the Wasp enters its first full box office weekend. With a strong box-office opening estimated at $87 million, the…
Scientists discovered the big toe that let toddlers climb trees like apes 3 million years ago
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More than three million years ago, an ancestor of our Homo Spaiens species, called Australopithecus afarensis, was already walking around on two legs. But the…
Want to love your job? Read this article
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The new dream job is none at all. A contingent of ambitious upper-middle-class types are devoting themselves single-mindedly to achieving early retirement, with the goal…
What Belgium’s World Cup team says about the spread of English across Europe
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Linguistically, Belgium is complicated. The country is wedged between France, The Netherlands, and Germany. And so Belgians speak versions of French, Dutch, and German, depending…
American businesses have a long tradition of expelling unwanted political visitors
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Whatever you think of the expulsion of US president Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, from Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia on June…
The problem with simply growing more tech hubs in Africa
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Paris More than 130 new hubs have opened in Africa over the last two years, and there are still not enough. Many hubs get financial…
Some of Startup India’s poster children say they never even signed up
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India is home to over 20,000 startups, but few are even aware of the benefits of the government’s ambitious Startup India programme. On Jan. 16,…