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"The desert locust invasion has been reported in 15 counties in the coastal, northeastern, eastern and central Kenya but so far the counter operation has been successful," Munya said at a briefing in Nairobi. … [Read more...] about Kenya says desert locust invasion under control amid timely mitigation measures

The government also asked it to respond to about 14 detailed questions with regard to changes made in the privacy policy within seven days. These include questions such as exact categories of data that WhatsApp collects from Indian users, details of permissions sought and their utility, if it does profiling of Indian users on the basis of app usage, difference between privacy policy of the application in India and in other countries, if WhatsApp shares data with other apps, whether WhatsApp captures info about other applications running on the mobile phone device of the user and on which server is the data of Indian users transmitted and hosted. … [Read more...] about India asks WhatsApp to withdraw changes in privacy policy

Our biological or circadian clock (sleep-wake cycle) is controlled by many factors including CRY-1. A new study that analysed human cancer data, saw that CRY-1 increased in late-stage prostate cancers. Ayesha Shafi, the first author of the study explains in a release: “As we looked further into the role of CRY1, we unexpectedly found that the circadian factor was altering the way that cancer cells repair DNA.” … [Read more...] about Best from science journals: When mosquitoes were given malaria

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is one of the most important books in recent years on the malaise afflicting the modern techno-savvy age that has brought in its wake not just the blitzkrieg of information with no measurable increase in knowledge or wisdom, but given rise to systems that aim at behaviour control threatening human nature with serious consequences. We are caught in a world where the harsh reality of power and its exercise takes predominance over the constitutionally guaranteed right of self-determination and individuality achieved through accumulating data on behaviour to be used to manipulate public opinion and the cultural industry. … [Read more...] about ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ review: Under the lens of technology