MSN Thursday April 30, 2026
Meta has announced a new Meta Account system to make it simpler for users to log in and manage their accounts across the company's various products. Meta already has Accounts Center, which helps combine some of the services, but it’s not fully streamlined, notes MSN. With the new Meta Account system, users will need a single password to log into all their Meta apps and services, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and AI glasses. However, for WhatsApp, the Meta Account system will remain optional. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday April 30, 2026
Earth continues to get brighter every year, scientists have found: Nasa-funded researchers at the University of Connecticut studied more than 1.1 million satellite images taken over a nine-year
period to establish that the planet's artificial light increased by a net 16% between 2014 and 2022. But the researchers found that the location and intensity of the progression has become
increasingly volatile because of covid, … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday April 29, 2026
Researching in the archives of the British film company Ilford, University of Liverpool scholar Michelle Henning came across a memo pasted into an experiment book by one of the company's chemists.
Dated January 19 1923, it instructed that "in future, coating of any kind of emulsion must not be commenced or proceeded with during a fog." London's chemical laden fogs, which persisted into the … Read the full Story >>
Columbia Journalism Review Wednesday April 29, 2026
The conflict in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has displaced 12 twelve million people, while some estimates put the death toll as high as 400,000, making it the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today. The conflict, however, has been called “the forgotten war” because of how little media coverage it has received. When the Sudanese city of El-Fasher was sacked by paramilitaries last fall, ground reporting gave way to long-distance analysis, notes the Columbia Journalism Review. Read the full Story >>
