Day: March 11, 2023

By AFP When Rwandan villager Lillian was diagnosed with cervical cancer, the 30-year-old feared that her life was over. But a new gadget aimed at patients in low-income countries offered her hope. When Rwandan villager Lillian was diagnosed with cervical cancer, the 30-year-old feared that her life was over. But a new gadget aimed at patients in low-income countries offered her hope. “The medical diagnosis was very scary; my husband couldn’t believe it,” Lillian — not her real name — told AFP. “We had heard of people dying of cancer and that it was incurable, so it was a very scary moment.” … Read More “The technology fighting Rwanda’s silent killer of women”

By Alexander Villegas JULIACA, Peru (Reuters) – In a small bedroom of a tin-roofed home in Peru’s southern city of Juliaca, Asunta Jumpiri holds the torn red and black sweatshirt of her 15-year-old son, whose dark eyes stare back at her from half a dozen framed photos around the room. Her son Brayan was wearing it when he was shot in the back of the head on Jan. 9, the deadliest day of violence Peru has seen in over twenty years that has cut a deep scar in the country’s Andean south. Brayan had come into town with his mother, 9-year-old younger brother and pregnant older sister to visit the do… Read More “In Peru’s Andes, scars of protest deaths cut deep as families seek justice”

By Andrew McCarty Just a few weeks ago, LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne made headlines when she promoted Caktus.AI – an artificial intelligence product. In a video on TikTok, Dunne claimed the product can help provide resources for use at the end of essays and papers. While name, image and likeness has been mostly celebrated, this NIL deal raised more than a few eyebrows. Some suggested the deal tests ethical boundaries and flirts with promoting plagiarism. LSU even came out with a statement suggesting it doesn’t tolerate plagiarism – without directly condemning Dunne for her promotion of the produc… Read More “Look: Sports Reacts To Controversial Olivia Dunne News”

A bank run dealt a lethal blow to Silicon Valley Bank Friday, forcing its failure after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates, scaring away potential investors from the financial institution best known for its relationships with high-flying World technology startups and venture capital. Its downfall is the largest failure of a US-based financial institution since Washington Mutual collapsed at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Here’s what to know about why the bank failed, who was affected most, and how it may or may not affect the wider banking system in the US and worldwide…. Read More “Silicon Valley Bank collapse: Here’s how and why it happened”

By Anmol Alphonso A video showing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates abruptly ending an interview after being accused of profiting off the pandemic by selling COVID-19 vaccines that caused “side effects and deaths”, is being widely shared on the internet as a real. BOOM investigated the video, and found it to be deepfake – the audio was overlayed and the visuals were digitally altered with the use of machine learning. This was confirmed to us by Dr Dominic Lees, Deepfake researcher and Associate Professor of Filmmaking at the University of Reading, UK, who told as that a number of techniques – su… Read More “Video Of Bill Gates Being Accused Of Profiting Off COVID Vaccines Is A Deepfake”