By Amy Graff, SFGATE Published 5:21 pm PDT, Monday, April 20, 2020 Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up to track the spread of COVID-19 and forecast surges in patients. Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up to track the spread of COVID-19 and forecast surges in patients. Photo: Facebook / Carnegie Mellon Photo:…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Facebook has banned some pages promoting protests of stay-at-home mandates that challenge the government's advice about social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic."Unless government prohibits the event during this time, we allow it to be organized on Facebook. For this same reason, events…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Facebook announced the latest effort to clamp down on the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, saying it will warn users if they have "liked, reacted or commented" on content that has been deemed "harmful" and removed by the tech…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…