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Press Trust of India, 22 August 2017 Popular messaging app WhatsApp Monday said it is exploring ways to check spread of fake news through its platform. WhatsApp software engineer Alan Kao termed the situation as "complex" because of the end-to-end encryption of messages on the platform that does not allow anyone - except the sender and the receiver - to read the messages. "We definitely do not want to see fake news on our platform and it's a complex problem in determining what is fake and what isn't. Because of the encryption, we can't read the contents of the messages," Kao told reporters in New Delhi. He added that the Facebook-owned company is looking at different ways in which they can tweak the product to "try and minimise" fake news. There have been a number of instances, including rumours of the new currency notes featuring a GPS chip and videos related to Muzaffarnagar riots, that were circulated and shared virally on WhatsApp as many took them to be true. With over 200 million users, India is the largest market for WhatsApp that has about 1.3 billion usersglobally. Kao said WhatsApp is taking a number of steps, including educating users to explain that they should check authenticity of content before sharing it on the platform. Last month, Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said instances of "objectionable videos" being shared through WhatsApp have been noticed. Since WhatsApp did not have content of the messages available with them, their ability to take action was limited, he had said. WhatsApp does provide a feature to report objectionable content. A user can take screenshots and share it with appropriate law enforcement authorities, Prasad had said. In April last year, WhatsApp had introduced end-to-end encryption to protect conversations of its millions of users from hackers and "regimes". Critics, however, contend that it also makes WhatsApp an ideal platform for spreading fake news, propaganda and objectionable content in the absence of oversight. There are also concerns that WhatsApp could be sharing user data with Facebook. Kao said WhatsApp values the trust of its users and the platform was built with "privacy and security in mind". "Any change that would weaken the encryption will be detected very quickly. It's impossible to make a secret backdoor. You cannot just create backdoor for just one party... Privacy will continue to be a key part of what we do," he said. Kao stressed that existence of such "backdoors" will be a prime target for hackers. Explaining the mechanism of the end-to-end encryption, Kao said WhatsApp does not store any message on its server and only the sender and receiver can see the message. "The message is stored on our server in an encrypted format and once the receiver reads the message, it is deleted from our servers. In case the receiver does not read the message (seen as two ticks on the sender's phone) within 30 days, it is purged," he said. In India, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court claiming that after the 2016 privacy policy of WhatsApp, personal data was shared and other data were collected by the company for commercial purposes. On this issue, the central government had submitted in the Supreme Court in July that data of users was "integral" to the Right of Life and Personal Liberty guaranteed under the Constitution and that it would come out with regulations to protect it. The case will be up for hearing in September. 2
LAASTE EERBETOON Skrywer onbekend Die werknemers van ’n groot maatskappy het teruggekeer van hul ete breek en by die ingangs portaal van die kantore is hulle begroet deur ’n kennisgewing. Die kennisgewing het gelees: “Die persoon wat jou die meeste verhinder het om te groei in die onderneming is gister oorlede. Ons nooi jou uit na die roudiens en laaste eerbetoon wat in die gimnasium sal plaasvind, vanmiddag om 16H00.” Almal was eers vreeslike hartseer om te hoor dat een van hul kollegas afgesterwe het, maar na ’n rukkie was almal baie nuuskierig om uit vind wie is die kollega wat oorlede is. Die afwagting het gegroei soos wat die werknemers by die gimnasium opgedaag het om hul laaste eer te betoon aan die oorledene. Almal het gewonder wie is die persoon wat hulle die meeste verhinder het in hul groei in die onderneming en elke een het gespekuleer wie dit kan wees. Die meeste se gevoel was in elk geval, “Maak nie regtig saak wie dit is nie, ten minste is hy of sy nie meer daar nie !” Een vir een het die werknemers nader gestaan aan die oop kis en wanneer hulle in die kis kyk was almal sprakeloos. Hulle was geskok, so asof iemand hul diepste wese aangeraak het. Daar was ’n spieël binne die kis en elkeen wat inkyk kon sy eie refleksie in die kis bodem sien. ’n Nota was langs die spieël aangebring wat as volg gelees het: “Daar is slegs een persoon wat in staat is om beperkinge op jou groei te plaas: dit is JYSELF.” Jy is die enigste een wat in staat is om jou lewe te verander. Die enigste persoon wat kan bepaal hoe gelukkig jy vandag gaan wees of hoe suksesvol. Jy is die enigste persoon wat jouself kan help of jouself belemmer om te groei. Jou lewe verander nie as jou werkgewer verander, of jou vriende verander, of jou ouers verander, of jou lewensmaat verander of jou kinders verander nie. Jou lewe verander slegs wanneer JY verander, wanneer jy verder strek as wat jy dink jy in staat is om te strek. Wanneer jy glo dat jy tot alles in staat is, slegs dan eers sal jy werklik tot alles in staat wees. Jy moet lief wees vir jouself en in jouself glo want hoe anders sal jy jou naaste kan liefhê of in jou naaste glo as jy nie in jouself glo nie...... 3
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Huishoudilike stofsuiers het self al ’n lang pad gekom, as ’n mens ons hipermoderne gevaartes met een van hul ouboete op die foto links vergelyk. Huisvroue het stofsuier te danke aan ’n vindingryke Engelse siviele ingenieur, Hubert Cecil Booth, wat in 1901 in Londen ’n demonstrasie van ’n Amerikaanse spoorwa-skoonmaker gesien het. Die toestel het stof verwyder deur dit in ’n houer in te blaas, maar was nie so geslaag nie, aangesien die meeste stof eintlik in die lug beland het. Toe hy tuis kom, het Booth lug deur ’n doek probeer suig pleks van dit weg te blaas—en agterna ’n masjien gepatenteer wat juis op hierdie beginsel gegrond is. 6
Why is the skin on your elbows and knees darker than the rest of your body? And what can you do about it? A dermatologist weighs in. BY LAUREN CAHN
Pity the skin on your elbows and knees—it takes a beating. It’s probably not your number one skin concern, and it’s not the first thing your dermatologist will notice about you. But you know you’re neglecting it, especially in winter when you don’t have to see it all the time. “Patients complain to me about the skin on their elbows and knees all the time,” says Joshua Zeichner, MD, a dermatologist and director of Cosmetic and Clinical Research at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. “Particularly about how it’s darker than the rest of their skin.” Yeah—what about that? Why are those areas so much darker and rough? Dr. Zeichner explains that the skin on the elbows and knees is subject to chronic stretching from bending and rubbing against clothes and furniture. All that friction inflames the skin, and it literally grows thicker to protect itself—and that’s why it looks darker. The skin on the elbows and knees also tends to be dryer than skin on the rest of the body, which makes it even more susceptible to inflammation, redness, and peeling. The elbows and knees are also where psoriasis—an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks its own skin cells—tends to show up first, and it can lead to thick, red, scaly buildup. “If you suffer from dry, dark patches on the elbows and knees, make sure to regularly moisturize to help keep the skin barrier in as good shape as possible, Dr. Zeichner advises. “Ingredients like petrolatum form a protective seal over the skin and help the skin maintain adequate hydration. The newest generation of skincare products offer high quality skin hydration with easy spreadability—they’re not greasy or heavy.” Dr. Zeichner notes that patients with darker skin may have even bigger coloration issues with the patches on knees and elbows, although not necessarily with skin roughness. This is because patients with darker skin tend to produce more pigment in general.
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After 25 years of heart problems—and a successful transplant—John Bell was face-to-face with the organ that almost took his life. BY LAUREN YOUNG
Transplant recipient John Bell knows exactly where to find his first heart—the damaged one he lived with for 72 years. It’s floating in a three-gallon jug of formaldehyde at a large storage facility at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, along with hundreds of other human hearts. When he returns to the hospital for a checkup with his cardiologist, Bell contemplates stopping by to pay his old heart a visit. Why? Because at Baylor, the retired sales and marketing professional can do something almost no one else in the world has ever done. He can hold his heart in his hands. “It was fairly emotional, that first encounter,” says Bell, who lives in Fort Worth. “I can’t actually explain why.” Bell is one of more than 70 heart-transplant patients who have participated in Baylor’s Heart-to-Heart program. It was launched in 2014 by William C. Roberts, MD, a cardiac pathologist and the executive director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute. Baylor is unique in allowing transplant patients to “meet” their old hearts. “Probably 99.5 percent of hospitals throw the hearts away after they send out a report,” Dr. Roberts says. “We keep them all.” They are used for further research: performing second pathological examinations, comparing the progress of different diseases among individual organs, and doing long-range studies. The Heart-to-Heart program -happened almost by accident. With all those organs stored on the hospital’s shelves, Dr. Roberts would sometimes take a curious patient to visit his or her old ticker. But the doctor discovered that the visits could provide a kind of teachable moment. “Many of the patients are overweight, and I show them the fat on the heart,” says Dr. Roberts. “Some people have so much fat on their hearts that they float in a container of water.” There’s a larger, almost existential lesson too. “I try to stress to these people that they are very lucky. They are one of the few that get a heart,” he says. There are an estimated six million Americans living with heart failure, but only 2,000 to 3,000 receive hearts each year in the United States. Bell had suffered 25 years of heart problems, beginning with triple-bypass surgery at the age of 50. Then, in March 2014, he underwent transplantation because of congestive heart failure, in which the heart is unable to sufficiently circulate oxygenated blood throughout the body. While recovering, he asked if he could view a video of the operation. Bell was even more thrilled to find out he could see his old organ in person. He remembers carefully holding his heart in front of his chest at approximately the same place it had lived just 12 days prior, though it had since been sliced into pieces as part of the operation and for further study. He was expecting something more akin to a bright red heart you’d see in a valentine, he says. Instead, the flesh was a pale gray. The whole organ was covered in yellow adipose tissue, or fat. Bell was shown the original vein and artery grafts from the bypass surgery he’d had in 1993 and how two grafts were carrying the load of a third that had not worked properly from the start. His family members also got to see his heart, and the -experience had a dramatic impact on his son, who vowed to start making healthier lifestyle choices. Bell had a similar reaction. He now exercises as much as his age allows and maintains an almost vegan diet. Holding his heart also gave him much-needed closure. “It had caused so much pain and misery,” he says. “I guess I just wanted to get a last look at it and say, ‘Hey, I won.’”
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The moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface. The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun. If our sun were the size of a softball, the star Antares would be as large as a house. In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained. At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere. Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls has caused the falls to recede approximately seven miles over the past 10,000 years. A ten-year-old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new due to debris that it absorbs over time. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand, and a lot of perspiration, which the average person loses at a rate of a quart a day. Good night! Every year 16 million gallons of oil runs off pavement into streams, rivers, and eventually, oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity and tears can't flow. 13
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By Rachel Swatman
To celebrate World Emoji Day and the upcoming release of ‘The Emoji Movie’, Sony Pictures organised a Guinness World Records attempt for the Largest gathering of people dressed as emoji faces (multiple venues). An incredible 531 fans donned yellow emoji costumes at simultaneous events across Dubai, Moscow, London, Dublin and Sao Paulo. The new record was confirmed by Guinness World Records. GWR judge Jack Brockbank commented: “We are incredibly impressed by the level of coordination and timing required to pull off this global record attempt – and it all happened simultaneously! It’s official—this is a fantastic achievement!” Josh Greenstein, President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures Entertainment, was thrilled with the attempt’s success: “Achieving a Guinness World Records title is a testament to the enormous worldwide appeal of emojis. It’s great to see so many people getting excited for the worldwide release of ‘The Emoji Movie.’” Here are a few more emoji-themed Guinness World Records titles certain to make you look like the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji: Most popular emoji (current) According to a joint study by the University of Michigan (USA) and the University of Peking (China), published in the International Journal of UbiComp in Sep 2016, the most used emoji is “Face with Tears of Joy” (aka “LOL Emoji” or “Laughing Emoji”). Of the 427 million messages examined – from 212 countries or regions – this symbol comprised 15.4% of all emoji selected through the Kika Emoji Keyboard app. First digital emoticon The first smiley using keyboard commands was typed by Scott Fahlman (USA, right) of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, on 19 Sep 1982. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( in emails to signify the emotional context of a message. The first emoji, meanwhile, which comprise mini faces or objects, were developed by Shigetaka Kurita (JPN) in 1998–99 while devising an early web platform for phones. He was inspired by manga and weather-forecast icons. Largest human smiley To celebrate its ninth anniversary, food and drinks company Alliance In Motion Global Inc. (Philippines) put on a very happy face… The supersized smiley, comprised of 8,018 people, gathered in Manila’s Luneta Park in the Philippines on 30 May 2015. Longest novel translated into emoji Data engineer Fred Benenson (USA) set up a Kickstarter project to translate the 10,000 or so lines in the 1851 classic novel Moby‑Dick, by Herman Melville, into pictograms. The volume, entitled Emoji Dick, was completed in 2010 and has since been added to the US Library of Congress – the first such book to achieve this. Most confusing emoji According to a study published by the University of Minnesota in April 2016, Microsoft’s "smiling face with open mouth and tightly closed eyes" was ranked as the world’s most confusing emoji, with interpretations ranging from euphoric laughter to extreme pain. PhD students from the university’s GroupLens lab – which examines social technologies – devised a 10-point emotional scale, ranging from -5 to +5, on which volunteers participating in the study could rank a range of different emojis. This particular emoji was rated positively by half of the participants, while the other half rated it negatively – giving an overall spread of 4.4 points, the biggest gap of any emoji studied.
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You may say it's comfortable, but it really isn't worth the risk. BY SAM BENSON SMITH
In 2015, over 32,000 people died in the United States in car accidents, the highest death toll since 2007. Non-fatal car accidents total out even higher, and although people may be thankful to escape with their lives, there are still many ways in you can reduce your risk of injury in a crash. This is why you can never, ever follow a friend while driving. There are the standard, seemingly no-brainers of automotive safety, like wearing a seatbelt, not speeding, and never drinking and driving. These are factors which are within your control. But another seemingly harmless car-riding habit may be putting your body at serious risk, just ask Audra Tatum. Tatum and her husband are from Walker County, Georgia, and have three kids. Naturally, that requires quite a bit of running around dropping off kids at various activities and whenever she was in the front passenger’s side of her family’s car, she would so something that her husband always warned her about, according to CBS News. “All my life I had my legs crossed and my foot on the dash…My husband always told me, ‘You’re going to get in a wreck someday, and you’re going to break your legs.'” Tatum always told her husband that she would be able to react in time before the airbag would deploy. On August 2, 2015, she learned her lesson the hard way. While going on a short four-mile drive to her parents’ house, a car pulled out in front of their car, and then T-boned it. While the other passengers escaped with just scrapes and bruises, Tatum’s femur, ankle, arm, and nose were broken on impact. She was unable to walk for a month and is still going recovering from the injuries two years later. Now, she wants everyone to take her misfortune as a warning: Do not put your foot on the dashboard. “I keep telling everybody, you don’t want this life,” she said. “You don’t want the pain and agony every day.”
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