Flooding back … why the public water fountain is set to return to Scotland
WE THINK of them as a thing of the past, but public water fountains look set to return to Scotland thanks to modern...
Cambridge Analytica’s world wide web: a story of data, democracy and dirty tricks
“Things don’t necessarily need to be true as long as they are believed.” So said Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Alexander Nix, before his suspension...
Abandoned space station set to crash to Earth
AN abandoned and out-of-control Chinese space station is to crash somewhere on earth this coming Easter weekend, according to space experts.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16114605.Abandoned_space_station_set_to_crash_to_Earth/?ref=rss
Meet TESS – the satellite set to find a ‘new Earth’
NASA is conducting its most powerful planet-hunting mission to date, with the launch of a new satellite to find “other Earths".http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16114604.Meet_TESS___the_satellite_set_to_find_a__new_Earth_/?ref=rss
The days of the digital ‘Wild West’ are numbered … regulation is on its way
For the past few months, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has been investigating fake news and the...
Edinburgh University told: strip KGB ‘propaganda’ chief of honorary degree
EDINBURGH University has been urged to reconsider an honorary degree awarded to the head of a Kremlin “propaganda” unit in the wake of...
‘I’m convinced Cambridge Analytica interfered in the EU referendum’, says SNP MP probing fake news scandal
THE SNP MP at the heart of the Westminster probe into fake news says he is convinced there was interference in the EU...
Iain Macwhirter: Facebook, Google and Amazon are the robber barons of the modern age
Some time ago, my web and Facebook pages started filling with adverts about funeral arrangements and what I could do with £1 million...
‘Facebook should be regulated like the BBC’, says SNP’s top MP
FACEBOOK should be subjected to a strict regulation regime similar to that which covers broadcast media such as the BBC, according to one...
DUP and Sinn Fein clash over NI political process
Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has accused Sinn Fein of trying to render Northern Ireland dysfunctional.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16114610.DUP_and_Sinn_Fein_clash_over_NI_political_process/?ref=rss
