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The EU drafted a copyright directive before Australia took action on Facebook. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters John Naughton’s piece was flawless apart from a couple of omissions (“Australia shows the way. It’s the job of governments not big tech to run democracies”, Comment). If we want similar rules to Australia in the UK, it is worth mentioning that the UK government was one of the main defenders of the EU 2019 copyright directive, which recognises the need to compensate publishers for their contribution in producing...

Maths lecturer baffles with seven-year-old daughter's homework question Dr Kit Yates, a senior lecturer in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Bath, confused Twitter users when he shared the mind-boggling question online Rosaleen FentonAudience Writer People were left baffled with the question (Image: Getty Images) Sign up for Daily Star Hot Topics newsletter for the most exciting real life, fashion and sex tips HOT off the pressInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Yes, put some glamour in my life When you subscribe we will use the information yo...

A maths lecturer left baffled by his seven-year-old daughter's geometry homework took to Twitter to ask for help.   Dr Kit Yates, co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death, shared his daughter's maths worksheet to Twitter in a bid to find out the correct answer. The question, accompanied by an image of a semi-circle, asked students: 'True or false? This shape has two right angles. Explain your answer.'   Dr Kit Yates, co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath, shared his daug...

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Arizona's Plunging COVID-19 Caseloads And The Vaccines  Share   Share Trending In two weeks since our previous update, Arizona's number of COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions (including ICU bed usage), and deaths have been plummeting. That good news prompted us to put together an animation showing the results of the back calculation method we've been using to identify the events that led to significant turning points in the trends for COVID-19 in Arizona. The animation cycles through the charts we've created using Arizona's high quality data for the number of daily positive COVID-19 test ...