Chilean election offers stark choice: a leftist or an admirer of Pinochet | Chile

Chilean voters head to the polls on Sunday to chose between two presidential candidates offering starkly contrasting visions for the future, in the country’s most divisive elections since it returned to democracy in 1990. Leftwing candidate Gabriel Boric, a tattooed former student protest leader, has pledged to empower women and Indigenous people and raise taxes … Read more

Tesla faces investor lawsuit over Musk tweets on 10% stock sales

San Francisco — Tesla was hit by a lawsuit over CEO Elon Musk’s social media posts including his Twitter poll on stock sales that pulled down its stock prices. Tesla investor David Wagner called for access to internal documents to investigate whether Tesla and Musk violated an agreement with the U.S. securities regulator and its … Read more

Earthquake depth impacts potential tsunami threat

Graphic showing how a tsunami works. Credit: Ocean Institute, modified by NOAA/ NWS/ CGS Earthquakes of similar magnitude can cause tsunamis of greatly varying sizes. This commonly observed, but not well-understood phenomenon has hindered reliable warnings of local tsunamis. Research led by University of Hawai’i (UH) at Mānoa scientists provides new insight that connects the … Read more

Merck's New COVID Pill Is a Disaster

An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted to grant emergency authorization to Merck’s oral COVID-19 pill molnupiravir (Lagevrio) — but only by a narrow margin.1 The 13-to-10 vote speaks volumes about the panel’s confidence in the treatment, as do the numerous concerns regarding efficacy and safety voiced by the panel. Merck … Read more

7 Future Trends Of The Digital Marketing Industry

It’s reasonable to assume that time flies at the same rate as technology advances. Consumer interests, which are rapidly changing and becoming more challenging to predict manually, are the same way. In today’s industry, digital marketing is a rapidly growing and massive platform. Various fields are brought together under one roof. When starting out, you … Read more