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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Some juror decisions are influenced by perceptions of the prevalence of crimes which can be incorrect or biased, a new study shows. The research…

Australia's competition regulator said on Thursday a court has ordered the local unit of Samsung Electronics to pay a penalty of AUD 14 million (roughly 76 crore) over misleading claims about a water-resistance feature in some of its smartphones.Samsung Australia admitted to misleading buyers of some of its 'Galaxy' phones about the water-resistance level, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said. The regulator first sued the company in July 2019.The regulator said that between March 2016 and…

When Natalie Portman Couldn’t Find Her Oscar & Was Unbothered About It ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Actors around the world surely gain a sense of pride after having an award dedicated to them, and if it’s an Oscar, it’s safe to say that the actor or actress would guard it with his or her life. But the same can’t be said for Natalie Portman. Talking about the same, did you know the Thor actress had once claimed to have accidentally misplaced the awards and had no idea about their whereabouts? In an…

If you are at all interested in the at-times intense rivalry between DC and Marvel Comics, you might know that Thanos, who first appears in "Iron Man" #55, published in 1972, is sometimes dismissed as little more than a poor man's version of frequent Justice League adversary Darkseid, who first appears in "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen" #134, published 1970. The two characters share a lot of similarities, from their massive, sinister physical appearances to their intergalactic origins and ability to take on…

The 45-year-old Voyager 1 deep space probe is showing its age as NASA engineers try to determine why it is sending back invalid telemetry data from its attitude control system as it hurtles through interstellar space, never to return.Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is currently 14.5 billion miles (23.3 billion km) from Earth – a distance so great that a radio signal takes 20 hours and 33 minutes to reach it from Mission Control. Despite nearly half a century of service during which the robotic spacecraft visited Jupiter in…

Article content While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s going to fight the spread of false information through government legislation, the inconvenient truth is he’s a spreader of false information himself. Article content Starting in 2016, he repeatedly said he would meet his 2020 target to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. He didn’t. In 2015, Trudeau said his government would have modest deficits in 2016, 2017 and 2018 with a surplus in 2019 — the year before the pandemic hit. He didn’t. He delivered…

On Thursday, Twitter announced a new policy for dealing with misinformation during a period of crisis, establishing new standards for gating or blocking the promotion of certain tweets if they are seen as spreading misinformation. “Content moderation is more than just leaving up or taking down content,” explained Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, in a blog post detailing the new policy, “and we’ve expanded the range of actions we may take to ensure they’re proportionate to the severity of the potential…

CNBC's Jim Cramer told investors on Monday that they shouldn't let short-term rallies trick them into making optimistic trading decisions."A rally based solely on the fact that everything's going wrong is a rally that cannot and will not stand. It has no staying power, unless something actually goes right," the "Mad Money" host said."So far, nothing's gone right, so stop pretending otherwise and just get used to" the turbulent market environment, he added. "Because that's exactly what the market has in mind for…

Three people were taken to a Las Vegas hospital with minor injuries on Saturday night after a false report of gunfire caused panicked attendees of the Lovers & Friends music festival to rush toward the exit, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement to TMZ.According to authorities, gunfire was reportedly heard near the festival shortly after 10 p.m., causing a mass dash to the exit. Though there was “no evidence of a shooting,” the LVMPD said, several people were trampled in the surge.“The show…

Apple’s AirTags have been sending out “phantom” alerts that are confusing iPhone users, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. The AirTags, which launched last year, feature anti-stalking measures that are designed to alert users when an unknown AirTag has been detected on their person over an extended period of time. The idea is to discourage AirTags from being used to track people without their consent. The WSJ reports that these false alerts generally occur in the middle of the night and have started…