3.16am EDT 03:16 The festival of Eid al-Fitr, which ends the fasting month of Ramadan, began at dawn today. It is a time of joy and celebration, but there are concerns in the Middle East that those festivities could bring about a surge in coronavirus cases – so they have been constrained in many places.…
Published on Apr 18, 2020Image Matrix Tech Editor Djuro Sen says the COVID-19 tracing app's use of Bluetooth should leave people "wary of mission creep". The app uses Bluetooth to log contact information of users who come within 1.5 metres of one another for longer than 15 minutes and alerts them if a close contact…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…