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Jose Cuervo, Shea Walsh/AP Brett Kavanaugh was reportedly involved in a bar fight during his junior year at Yale University. The fight happened after a UB40 concert. One of Kavanaugh’s former friends said that his group mistook a bar patron for a member of the band. The internet went wild and UB40 began trending again. […]
(credit: Chauncey Davis) Bloomberg New Energy Finance released a new report this week that estimates how electricity generation will change out to 2050. The clean energy analysis firm estimates that in a mere 33 years, the world will generate almost 50 percent of its electricity from renewable energy, and coal will make up just 11 […]
Facebook is abandoning its Trending news feature, which has been dogged by controversy over editorial bias against conservatives and accusations that it promoted “fake news” during the 2016 US presidential election. “We introduced Trending in 2014 as a way to help people discover news topics that were popular across the Facebook community,” Alex Hardiman, Facebook’s […]
An algorithm change apparently designed to keep fake news out is precisely what put a Parkland conspiracy video at the top of YouTube’s Trending section. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8dc248dc9df6500b907091/master/pass/ShootingVictimConspiracy-918884292.jpg
In discussions of the ongoing battle over fake news, we often hear Facebook and Google criticized for playing a hand in spreading false information. And while both have made efforts recently to stem the spread of misinformation on their platforms, they’ve each had some major missteps. YouTube is talked about less often when it comes […]
Enlarge / Moo. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) There’s been something of a renaissance of raw milk in recent years. And, not surprisingly, the dicey drink of bygone eras is also reviving disease outbreaks. In recent years, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have noted that more states have made it legal to […]
The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Amazon’s Movers and Shakers page tracks the biggest gainers in sales rank over the last 24 hours, providing interesting and sometimes surprising insights into what’s trending among shoppers. We […]
Big news always comes out of the Detroit Auto Show, and 2018 was no different. Except that the big news this year was all about big vehicles that sell in even bigger numbers. Big deals, in other words. Fullsize trucks continue to dominate the sales charts in America, led by the Ford F-Series line of […]
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Returning to the pre-Brexit referendum rate of 0.5 per cent will increase borrowing costs for households, affecting mortgage payments and personal loans. However, it will mean a strengthened pound and help to cut inflation rates, which were at 3 per cent last September. Laura Parsons, current analyst at TorFX said the current financial climate looks […]
