The global body that regulates shipping is moving to eliminate a highly polluting fuel in the Arctic. But environmental groups say the International Maritime Organization’s proposal is so full of loopholes that heavy fuel oil will go on being burned for another decade. “That’s an extreme timeline for something that needs to happen immediately,” said…

Public health researchers in the U.K. say that the spread of misinformation during a disease outbreak may make the outbreak more severe, and that reducing the amount of harmful advice circulating by even a little bit could mitigate that effect.  Julii Brainard and Paul R. Hunter at the University of East Anglia reached that conclusion using a…

The federal privacy watchdog and three of his provincial counterparts will jointly investigate Canadian use of facial-recognition technology supplied by U.S. firm Clearview AI. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he will be joined in the probe by ombudsmen from British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec. The investigation follows media reports that raised concerns about whether the…

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Larry Tesler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who created the now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as “cut,” “copy” and “paste,” has died. He was 74. He made using computers easier for generations as a proponent and pioneer of what he called “modeless editing.” That meant a user wouldn’t have to use a keyboard to switch between modes…

A toothbrush. Human hairs caught in the bristles of a hairbrush. A fingerprint preserved in sealing wax.  Underwater archeologists from Parks Canada found these highly personal items as they recovered more than 350 artifacts during their most recent — and they say most successful — season yet at the HMS Erebus wreck site off the…