October 2019 Impact Articles
- YouTube’s TeamTrees raises over $10 million to plant trees around the world
- What is gaming disorder? What the WHO’s designation really means
- YouPorn promotes voting by offering free Premium Memberships
- Why Netflix password sharing could get more difficult
- Why U.S. cities are becoming more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians
- Trump's actions don't warrant impeachment, Republicans say. So what would?
- Smallest dwarf planet in the solar system identified by European scientists
- Katie Hill's resignation signals a dangerous future for aspiring politicians
- Georgetown University announces reparations fund for descendants of slaves
- Facial recognition misclassifies transgender and non-binary people, study finds
- Rising sea levels will flood way more cities than originally predicted, says new climate report
- The Trump administration accepted zero refugees in October
- Greta Thunberg turns down environmental award from Nordic Council
- School dress codes unfairly target Black girls. But students are fighting back
- 'Counter-Strike' transactions are being used to launder money, according to Valve
- The North Carolina gerrymandering fight is a sign of battles to come
- How Alexander Vindman's testimony is baiting Republicans into obvious hypocrisy
- Facebook employees protest political fact-checking policy in letter to Mark Zuckerberg
- Private prison company running ICE facilities faces horrific abuse allegations
- Stanton T. Friedman’s UFO research archives could take 10 years to catalog
- Do wormholes exist? Scientists aren’t sure, but they may know how to spot them
- California’s wildfires need to be treated as a public health issue
- Pelosi announces House impeachment vote to blunt GOP criticism
- Australia considers facial recognition to verify porn viewers are 18
- Anti-tracking phone charger developed by Austrian creative coder and artist
- Climate humor can break down barriers and find common ground
- Apple’s noise-canceling AirPods Pro will arrive October 30
- As wildfires rage in California, governor declares statewide emergency
- World Series crowd boos Trump in D.C.
- Trump administration claims border wall will be good for the environment. Scientists disagree.
- Popular health care algorithm shows bias against Black patients, study finds
- Why self-driving cars haven’t disrupted the auto industry like they were supposed to
- ‘Pokemon Sword and Shield’ creators reveal what to expect from the new game
- Betsy DeVos fined $100,000 over the Department of Education’s handling of student loans
- The universe could be made of a “spacetime foam,” scientists theorize
- Climate change could cause U.S. military collapse, new report warns
- Rats learn to drive cars in new University of Richmond scientific study
- What is executive privilege? How it's being invoked — and misused — by the Trump administration
- Planets orbiting black holes instead of stars discovered by Japanese scientists
- Recycling single-use plastics could become more efficient with this new method
- Bill Taylor testifies on Ukraine: 5 major takeaways
- Croissant-inspired solar energy storage method developed by scientists
- How Republican congressmen feed the Fox News alternate reality machine
- What is Quantum Supremacy? What Google’s latest claim means
- Trump administration gave almost $11 million in student aid to unaccredited for-profit colleges
- Air pollution increases tied to forest fires and Trump policies, new report says
- 'Abuse of power is not a crime,' says Trump's former attorney general
- 'Pokemon Go' multiplayer mode will arrive in early 2020
- Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also acidified the world’s oceans, new research says
- Elon Musk tweets SpaceX Starlink satellite internet progress
- Scientists develop “artificial leaf” that produces clean fuel
- Impeachment poll: Approval for Trump impeachment reaches 50%
- Elizabeth Warren's education plan is an ambitious $800 billion overhaul of the system
- What are king tides, the natural phenomenon producing major flooding?
- Instagram plastic surgery filters will be removed, says Spark AR statement
- Mitt Romney's Pierre Delecto Twitter account doesn't make him a member of the resistance
- Scientists develop artificial human skin for tech devices
- Arnold Schwarzenegger praises Greta Thunberg while promoting ‘Terminator:Dark Fate’
- Op-ed: Slow-and-steady political progress can result in real change
- What’s a stormquake? Scientists identify a new phenomena on the ocean floor
- U.S. military phases floppy disk system out in favor of updated tech
- Apple’s noise-canceling AirPods might be here by the end of the month
- Why lowering the voting age would make for a better democracy
- A dark web child porn ring was shut down after police traced bitcoin transactions
- Yellow slime mold blob goes on display at Paris Zoological Park
- Microplastic pollution is everywhere. How concerned do we need to be?
- Trump schedules 2020 G-7 summit at his own resort
- Government tech programs unfairly target poor communities, new U.N. report says
- What is the Gradient app? What to know about the celebrity lookalike app
- Trump allegedly lied on his taxes as recently as 2017, documents show
- How the fourth Democratic debate energized Bernie Sanders's campaign
- The fourth Democratic debate showed 2020 is about one thing: dreams vs. doability
- “How gay are you” app claims to analyze DNA to determine sexual preference. It can’t do that.
- As climate change alters the Earth's landscape, Scientists propose 3D scan to preserve what could be lost
- 'Pokémon Sword and Shield' bring back 'chonky' Pikachu and introduce 'skinny Meowth'
- How fake reply emails took over our inboxes
- The U.S. abandoning the Kurds isn't surprising. We've done it for decades
- Mexican cartel members ambush police, killing 13 in grisly attack
- Made by Google 2019: New Pixel phones, Nest home devices and more announced at annual hardware event
- Colleges are tracking applicants' browser history, according to new report
- 'Fortnite' Chapter 2 debuts after the game goes dark for a weekend
- Fourth Democratic debate: 5 pressing questions we want answered
- Life on Mars may have been found in the ’70s, former NASA scientist says
- Elizabeth Warren's fake Facebook ad shows the company has learned nothing from 2016
- Fake video of Trump shooting critics airs at pro-Trump event in Florida
- Report: Trump immigration policy forced hundreds of babies to wait indefinitely in Mexico
- Trump financial records must be released to House committee, court rules
- Google funds climate deniers, new report reveals
- IMF proposes global carbon tax to limit emissions
- Two-thirds of North American birds are at risk due to climate change
- Apple and Google remove apps related to Hong Kong protests
- The universe’s largest magnets, magnetars, may be the result of star collisions
- Extinction Rebellion’s New York City climate change protests are part of a global movement
- New black hole research suggests a more active galaxy than once thought
- Trump's withdrawal from Syria draws criticism from some of his staunchest supporters
- Karen Johnson accuses Trump of sexual assault in forthcoming book — alongside 42 other new accusations
- California blocks police body cameras from using facial recognition
- New Uber Pet ride option will test in 7 cities so animal owners won’t get canceled on
- What is Title VII? Why Civil Rights Act of 1964 is at center of LGBTQ discrimination case
- How climate fiction is helping people understand the planet's uncertain future
- Why can't I access Facebook on PlayStation 4? A new update has caused social integration issues for gamers
- PG&E could shut off power for millions of Californians in wildfire prevention efforts
- The evolution of Title VII: How one discrimination case could change the course of gay rights
- 20 new Saturn moons discovered by astronomers
- Trump blocks Ambassador Gordon Sondland from testifying to House impeachment investigators
- Amazon Ring’s police partnerships the focus of an open letter from 36 civil rights groups
- The Ukraine scandal isn't just about politics — it's also about profit
- How voter ID laws disproportionately affect minority communities, according to cellphone data analysis
- What is Iqos, and how is it different from a vape?
- Apple macOS Catalina best features
- Why I'm teaming up with French Montana to fight for breast cancer survivors (Op-Ed)
- Instagram’s “Following” tab will be removed for all users
- DACA recipients just filed a historic amicus brief with the Supreme Court
- NASA’s all-women spacewalk is back on, following delay over spacesuits
- Trump's tax returns must be given to Manhattan D.A., judge rules
- Pornographic deepfake videos are on the rise, but new laws are giving victims a way to fight back
- The 5 best gaming headsets under $100
- Abortion access reaches Supreme Court again, thanks to Louisiana lawsuit
- 2019 had hottest September on record, says climate change report
- Is focusing on our haters human nature?
- Google facial recognition contractors used questionable methods to target darker-skinned people, says new report
- Universal basic income experiment in Stockton, California reports early findings
- Astronomers discovered an exoplanet that shouldn’t be able to exist
- ACLU sues Trump administration over family separation
- Trump's climate change denial is causing a science "crisis," says new bipartisan report
- Bill Gates’s ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’ climate change book coming in 2020
- UPS receives drone airline approval from the FAA
- Republican gerrymandering secrets revealed in leaked audio
- Trump administration defunds environmental committees dedicated to marine life and invasive species
- Wildfire prevention gel spray developed by Stanford scientists
- William Barr's travels abroad show how far Trump is willing to go to soothe his ego
- NASA awards $43.2 million to space tech companies including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin
- Smartphone users' typing speeds are catching up to those on traditional keyboards
- Former Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking user accounts looking for nude photos
- Trump's immigration policy reportedly included spikes and alligators
- Antarctica iceberg the size of London calves from Amery ice shelf
- This Mom Wants to Teach Her Daughters About Sex By Giving Them Vibrators
- Oktoberfest has a sexual assault problem — it isn't all brats and beers
- Apple issues iPhone warning for third-party screen repairs
- Hong Kong protests hit violent peak while Beijing celebrates 70 years of Communist rule
- WiFi signals can identify people through walls, scientists say
- iPhone charger hacking device developed by cybersecurity researcher
- Amber Guyger convicted for the murder of Botham Jean
- Twitter’s anti-abuse filter for DMs may not actually help stop harassment on the platform
- Mark Zuckerberg gives Elizabeth Warren campaign ad material in leaked audio
