Innholdsfortegnelse for 04/27/2018 i Newsweek International

AS MAR ZUC ERBERG TESTIFIED IN FRONT of the U.S. Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees, Representative Ro Khanna watched in dismay. This was less because of what the Face-book co-founder and chairman did say—for the most part, bromides about privacy, security and censorship—than because of what the lawmakers arrayed before him didn’t. “This was a missed opportunity,” Khanna lamented later that evening in a text message. “The hearing revealed a knowledge gap in Congress about technology.” Many of the men and women questioning Zuckerberg were about twice his age, and some were quite a bit older than that. They knew that adversaries like Russia had weaponized social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, but the particulars of the problem clearly eluded them. The 44 legislators who took turns quizzing Zuckerberg…

 HUMAN IND DUMPS MILLIONS OF TONS OF PLASTIC waste into the oceans every year. This garbage can harm marine animals, which consume it, or it can enter the worldwide food chain, a danger for humans. Plastic has a property perfect for spotting from a distance: Infrared light bounces off it more than it does ocean water, making the two easily distinguishable. Researchers hoping to address the problem don’t know the full scope of it, which has stymied their efforts. They aren’t sure where the plastic goes, if it moves with the currents or whether it congregates in certain areas. “Boy, what an advance it would be,” says James Carlton, an ecologist at Williams College, “to be able to see the world in a snapshot.” Easier said than done. With existing…

IF CAPTAIN AMERICA SAVES THE WORLD from apocalypse in Avengers: Infinity War, you can thank Joe and Anthony Russo: Four years ago, they saved Marvel from the apocalyptic ire of its fans. The siblings are the directors of the film, which opens April 27, and they joined Disney-owned Marvel four years ago, on the heels of Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World—blockbusters at the box office but bummers for ultra-picky comic book geeks. Both films traded the punchy, bright-colored fun of the best Marvel movies for a muddy, tortured moodiness. Fans didn’t want to see Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder; they wanted the joyous blend of humor and heroism that Joss Whedon brought to The Avengers in 2012, which has grossed $1.5 billion…

“The more you can believe that a character like this exists, the more scary it becomes.” FOR NEARLY FIVE YEARS, DAVID TENNANT WAS THE CHARMING LEADING man (or, rather, the charming leading alien) in the popular British scifi series Doctor Who. Being typecast as the fun-loving doctor can be hard to avoid, and Tennant remained in the role longer than most. But now, more than eight years after leaving the show, he’s been adding more diabolical characters to his résumé: First, the mind-controlling rapist Kilgrave in Netflix’s Jessica Jones, and now a cold-blooded murderer in Bad Samaritan, a horror-thriller that hits theaters May 4. The latter stars Robert Sheehan (Misfits) as a restaurant valet who robs rich people who entrust him with their cars. This seems genius at first—until Sheehan…

The top five results for a search about “Las Vegas shooting” included a video claiming government agents were responsible for the attack. LOUIE VELES I HAS SOME interesting opinions. He thinks ghosts exist and humans have never been to the moon. A resident of Melbourne, Australia, Veleski expounds on his points of view on his YouTube channel, Better Mankind, which earns him up to $5,400 a month. Conspiracy theories, it turns out, are very profitable for the YouTubeinclined entrepreneur. On his channel, Peladophobian, Ryan Silvey, 18 and also from Australia, posts videos like “School Is Illuminati” and “Donald Trump Is Vladimir Putin.” Though satirical, the videos may be lumped in with other contrarian or esoteric posts in search results. Silvey makes more than $7,500 a month on average from advertisements…