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Fact check: Misleading Google search results on UK asylum seeker crime rate

Full Fact has seen what appear to be screenshots of Google results on this topic shared on social media in recent months.

The Independent UK

Ferns’ ability to evolve ‘backward’ offers insights into the meandering path of evolution

Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would look distinct from its predecessors. This is the process of evolution in its simplest form: descent with modification.

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How to catch a supernova explosion before it happens – and what we can learn from it

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies on nuclear fusion — primarily using hydrogen as fuel — to generate energy and counteract the…

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70 Horrifying Things From American Schools That Foreigners Find Shockingly Weird

Bad lunches, questionably graded tests, and the horrifying state of school bathrooms – all things that show how messed up the US education system really is. The post 70 Horrifying Things From American Schools That Foreigners Find Shockingly Weird first appeared on Bored Panda.

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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Thursday, December 12 (#550)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #550 on December 12.

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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Wednesday, December 11 (#549)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #549 on December 11.

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Seven things we learned from the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

And breathe. Formula 1's 24-race marathon is done, dusted, and to be firmly ensconced in the history books; it's already gone from present to past tense on Wikipedia.

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Most Visited Wikipedia Pages In 2024: Trump, Harris, Musk, Swift, Politics And Netflix Dominate List

Wikipedia has released a list of the top 25 visited pages in 2024. A look at the list and trends like politics and entertainment dominating the list.

Benzinga

Exclusive: Corpora.ai unveils a new AI 'research engine'

It's among a growing crop of AI tools aimed at researchers. But inaccurate summaries remain an issue.

Fortune

The Latino Criminals Among Wikipedia's Top Searches For 2024

The 25 most-searched pages on Wikipedia went from U.S. political events, sports, pop culture, and true crime.

Latin Times

Morrissey hits out at Wikipedia for failing to ‘set the record straight’

Singer shared a brief statement from his personal website about the apparent errors

The Independent UK

As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction

The original idea for the world wide web emerged in a flurry of scientific thought around the end of World War II. It began with a hypothetical machine called the “memex”, proposed by US Office of Scientific Research and Development head Vannevar Bush in an article entitled As We May…

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AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit

Artificial intelligence doesn’t just incrementally erode the rights of authors and other creators. These technologies are designed to replace creative workers altogether

The Guardian - AU

Yawnoc is a new wave-based roguelike where killing your enemies the wrong way could send them growing out of control, and it's dirt cheap right now

I'm just as bad at the Game of Life as I am at the game of life.

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People do care about extinct species, but not for long – new study

Lonesome George was discovered motionless in his enclosure, one morning in June 2012. Overnight, George had taken not only his final breath but the final breath of his entire species, the Pinta Island tortoise, as it faded into extinction.

Newslaundry

Wikipedia ‘put on notice’ by centre over ‘bias’ amid ANI defamation hearing

While the Delhi High Court is hearing ANI’s defamation suit against Wikipedia, several media reports citing anonymous sources have claimed that the centre has put “Wikipedia on notice” over “many complaints of bias and inaccuracies” and a small group’s control over its editorial.

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The 27 Club isn’t true, but it is real − a sociologist explains why myths endure and how they shape reality

There’s a certain allure to the notion that some of the world’s brightest stars burn out at the age of 27. The so-called 27 Club has captivated the public imagination for half a century. Its members include legendary musicians Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.…

Evening Standard

Heretic review: even Hugh Grant can't save this horror hokum

2/5 The foppish national treasure has been lumped in with a wave of English stars vying for Oscars glory, but this tedious horror nonsense surely isn’t his vehicle to victory

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We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history

Wikipedia articles related to Australia are overwhelmingly centred on cities, new research has found, with negative aspects of a place sometimes “sanitised” in articles by editors – avoiding mention of discriminatory Australian government policies or violence against First Nations peoples.

The Conversation

Going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Science says you’re one of these three types

If you’ve ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or video), to another, to another – then you know the feeling of “going down a rabbit hole”. This experience of curiosity-led online wandering has become synonymous with the free, user-created…

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‘Dangerous’: Delhi HC on Wikipedia model

The Delhi High Court on Friday said that it is “dangerous” how Wikipedia functions, considering how anyone can edit pages on the platform, Bar and Bench reported.

AAP

Reddit, Wikipedia images inspire artist's Paris posting

Sydney artist Adele Warner has won the 2024 Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship, earning her a three-month residency in the French capital.

Newslaundry

India is doing its best to control online speech. Here’s why you should be worried

“But in a democracy, it is not necessary that everyone should sing the same song.”

The Conversation

A technical fix to keep kids safe online? Here’s what happened last time Australia tried to make a ‘clean’ internet

For anyone who has been online in Australia longer than a decade or so, the discussion around current proposals to set a minimum age for social media use might trigger a touch of déjà vu.

The Independent UK

Harris campaign calls plagiarism claims a partisan attack. Expert says it was 'sloppy writing'

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign is dismissing accusations that she and a co-author plagiarized parts of a 2009 book on the U.S. criminal justice system as a desperate attempt by “rightwing operatives” to distract voters ahead of next month’s election

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