Harry Ridgewell
WikiTribune
United Kingdom
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Soil erosion looms as potential humanitarian disaster
Land degradation affects 3.2 billion people. World leaders pledged to reach a solution by 2030. Can they? → Read More
Uber plans flying cab service by 2023
Uber has set out plans to launch a flying taxi service by 2023. The announcement came at a company conference in Los Angeles this week (Financial Times, may be... → Read More
AI expert Noel Sharkey on becoming an ‘accidental activist’ against killer robots –
Micah Xavier Johnson died after a police siege in Dallas, Texas in 2016. The young man had shot 14 policemen, killing five and wounding nine. But Johnson is also remembered → Read More
Stephen Hawking, physicist and author of ‘Brief History of Time’, dies –
In 1963 the brilliant young academic was given two years to live → Read More
What is novichok, the nerve agent blamed for British attack?
Designed by the former Soviet Union to be undetectable and far more deadly than other nerve agents → Read More
What Brexit means to Gibraltar and the people of ‘The Rock’
Gibraltar’s lifeline to Spain means it faces challenges to its way of life from the UK leaving the European Union → Read More
SpaceX successfully launches world’s most powerful rocket –
The Falcon Heavy climbed into space, marking a historic moment in space exploration → Read More
Zuma asks prosecutors to drop corruption charges
The state prosecutor will decide whether to charge Zuma with corruption by the end of February → Read More
Discounted Nutella fuels ‘riots’ in France –
One witness said shoppers behaved like 'animals' in violent scenes over the cheap chocolate and hazelnut spread → Read More
UK’s second biggest construction company collapses –
The UK government will have to step in and provide funds to make sure some public services continue → Read More
200 million lives saved – but prognosis for penicillin is not healthy –
It was the wonder-drug of the 20th century - but how good is Alexander Fleming's discovery now? → Read More
FCC repeals U.S. net-neutrality rules
If it survives certain legal challenges, it would give power to internet providers to boost or hamper website speeds → Read More
Q&A: Tim Berners-Lee on net neutrality and why he won’t have Alexa in the house –
The creator of the World Wide Web doesn't want Alexa but is worried about net neutrality and echo chambers → Read More
Fake news is ‘journalistic warfare’ says New Yorker’s chief fact checker –
Peter Canby says a widespread "disenchantment" with modern life has fueled the rise of fake news → Read More
Who are fact checkers and what do they do?
WikiTribune interviewed three organizations monitoring for misinformation, inaccuracy and fake news → Read More
Big Read: How fact checking evolved in the internet era
Once the hidden toil of backroom editors, can modern fact checking do enough to dispel public skepticism? → Read More
Big Read: Loss of tropical forests threatens search for antibiotics
The loss of swathes of tropical forest is robbing medical researchers of vital sources of new antibiotics and other medicines → Read More