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A new study led by UAlbany's Massry School of Business explores how opposing viewpoints may have impacted vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: U.S. Air Force Reserve Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy As the COVID-19 pandemic raged throughout the country in 2020, politics, memes and public messaging converged to dramatically influence individuals' decisions regarding the in-development COVID vaccines, according…

DNIPRO, Ukraine The building rocks as air defenses engage incoming missiles, and one regrets being caught out on the 17th floor of a 20-floor high-rise, despite the view and modern construction. In Dnipro, an industrial city along the banks of the Dnieper in central Ukraine where I had been visiting contacts, several missiles strike with sharp cracks and rumbling booms as they hit residential buildings, a shopping center and a maternity hospital. Russia sends cruise and ballistic missiles and attack…

With awards season in high gear, we’re reminded of the streaming series and movie releases over the past year that demonstrate an existence— sometimes dire—without our fundamental right to privacy securely in place.Increasingly, we’re seeing instances of life on the big and small screen where personal information is available at the click of a device. Storylines are continually normalizing life without privacy with characters being found through hacked records (“Old Dads”) or enduring physical attacks, catfishing, and…

When one becomes a filmmaker like Christopher Nolan, you don’t necessarily sign up to become famous – that’s the job of the actors. There are surely a ton of storytellers out in the world you’ve consumed movies and TV from, but couldn’t pick out of a lineup if your life depended on it. That is, however, not the case for Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan, as one of his stars, Robert Downey Jr. recently poked fun at while presenting him with another award for the atomic bomb origin story and biography. Christopher Nolan has…

The Indian government introduced a slew of policy and regulatory changes that impacted the country’s digital ecosystem.ETtech recaps the top tech policy developments of 2023 and its significance. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product ManagementVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitNew data law: The Digital…

As we say farewell to another year, it’s the perfect time to get nostalgic about one’s experiences across twelve months. Here on CinemaBlend, that means remembering the best movies of 2023. While sometimes movies are just a couple of hours to pass the time (or over three if you’re Martin Scorsese’s masterful Killers Of The Flower Moon or Christopher Nolan’s incredible Oppenheimer), and other times their sights, sounds and emotions become an impactful memory that changes the way we go about the world or think about the…

At least 6.9 million users of 23andMe’s services have had their data accessed by hackers. That number is roughly half of 23andMe’s estimated 14 million user base. The original hack happened in October, but it was not publicly known just how many users were affected until this week.According to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing by 23andMe, the October hack originally accessed “a very small percentage (0.1%) of user accounts” by using compromised usernames and passwords from other sites that were the same as…

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Numerical air quality models have described the extent of severe negative impacts on air quality resulting from the record 2023 Canadian wildfires, demonstrating that almost the whole of the Northern Hemisphere, not just Canada and the northern United States, were affected. A paper describing the findings…

Byron Kaye / Reuters: Australian telecom Optus says the recent massive outage that impacted 10M+ was caused by “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade” — Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday that a massive outage which effectively cut off 40% … Byron Kaye / Reuters: Australian telecom Optus says the recent massive outage that impacted 10M+ was caused by “changes to routing information” after a “routine…