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It’s not difficult to verify whether a new piece of information is accurate; however, most people don’t take that step before sharing it on social media, regardless of age, social class or gender, a new Ohio University study has found.

A new study conducted by Ohio University professor Dr. M. Laeeq Khan found that several factors can be used to predict someone’s ability to detect misinformation, otherwise known as “fake news,” on social media. Additionally, the study found that, by looking at certain factors, it is also possible to predict if someone is likely to share misinformation based on the same factors.

The study, titled “Recognise misinformation and verify before sharing: a reasoned action and information literacy perspective,” was published in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology.

Will the new series make stars of our friends in the plant kingdom?

Royal Mint has unveiled its stunning new Stephen Hawking 50p — this is where you can get one and what it will cost.

Tim Berners-Lee has consistently warned about the threats facing the web he helped create.

We’re gonna need something better than “There’s no evidence this is not true.”

The fundamental idea of OpenAI LP is that investors and employees can get a capped return if we succeed at our mission, which allows us to raise investment capital and attract employees with startup-like equity. But any returns beyond that amount—and if we are successful, we expect to generate orders of magnitude more value than we’d owe to people who invest in or work at OpenAI LP—are owned by the original OpenAI Nonprofit entity.

We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.

They’re called ‘the blobs’ — two lumpy, continent-size mountains of hot, compressed rock lurking at the bottom of Earth’s mantle. Nobody knows what they are.

• Scientists have begun an unprecedented exploration of the depths of the Indian Ocean.
• The expedition will delve into one of the last major unexplored frontiers on the planet.

An unprecedented mission to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles Islands and document changes taking place beneath the waves began its research on Thursday.

The British-led Nekton Mission arrived off the tiny atoll of Alphonse in the early morning hours, after looming bad weather forced a change of plan and of route.

Officials are investigating the cause of a massive sinkhole that formed Wednesday at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky.

The sinkhole, which measured about 50 yards wide, 85 yards long, and possibly 50 feet deep (almost the size of a football field!), was spotted in the zoo’s southwest corner, far from any of the animals, USA Today reported.

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