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Facebook says Russian ads seen by as many as 126M users

Major tech companies plan to tell Congress Tuesday that they have found additional evidence of Russian activity on their services surrounding the 2016 U.S. election.

 
Saudi Arabia denies women rights but makes robot a citizen

Until recently, the most famous thing that Sophia the robot had ever done was beat Jimmy Fallon a little too easily in a nationally televised game of rock-paper-scissors.

Stephen Hawking thesis crashes Cambridge University website

As soon as physicist Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis became available online, thousands of people immediately downloaded it – so much demand that it crashed the website that Cambridge University posted it on.

The world’s deadliest killer? Pollution, it’s not even close

Environmental pollution — from filthy air to contaminated water — is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

Crazy weather under watchful eye of next-generation satellite

Between the raging hurricanes and the massive wildfires, 2017 has been quite a year for weather in the United States. And watching it all unfold is a new, next-generation, multimillion-dollar satellite.

Wind energy extracted over ocean could power the world

New research published on Monday finds there is so much wind energy potential over oceans that it could theoretically be used to generate “civilization scale power” — assuming, that is, that we are willing to cover stretches of the sea with turbines, and can come up with ways to install and maintain them in often extreme ocean environments.