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Amara Diallo covers science and climate for Shadowfetch, turning evidence into community, policy, and practical impact while labeling uncertainty. An Inglewood native and UCLA sociology graduate. She also anchors Shadowfetch's daily Technology desk — AI, chips, and the platforms reshaping how we live and work.
TechnologyJul 13, 2026 · Amara Diallo
Australia’s fight over AI training, creator rights and data-center investment is becoming a global test of whether governments can bargain with frontier AI companies without weakening copyright.
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 13, 2026 · Amara Diallo
A late-June European heat wave linked to roughly 10,000 excess deaths shows how extreme heat has become a measurable climate-era public-health emergency.
Read the story →TechnologyJul 12, 2026 · Amara Diallo
A revived EU fight over message scanning has pushed child-safety regulation, encryption, and platform compliance back into direct conflict.
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 12, 2026 · Amara Diallo
The Trump administration’s rescission of the ESA’s regulatory definition of “harm” narrows habitat-based enforcement just as conservation research shows habitat loss is the dominant threat for many imperiled species.
Read the story →TechnologyJul 11, 2026 · Amara Diallo
Cities used drones to turn illegal-fireworks enforcement into a high-dollar, high-visibility test of how ordinary local aerial surveillance is becoming.
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 11, 2026 · Amara Diallo
Martha Lillard’s death closes a visible chapter of America’s polio era while raising current questions about vaccination, eradication and long-term care for survivors.
Read the story →TechnologyJul 10, 2026 · Amara Diallo
KargoBot CEO Wei Junqing projects profitability in roughly two and a half years, signaling maturing economics for China's autonomous freight sector.
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 10, 2026 · Amara Diallo
The Trump administration's EPA is rolling back smog-forming emissions rules for trucks, a move with direct consequences for air quality, public health, and environmental justice in freight corridors nationwide.
Read the story →TechnologyJul 9, 2026 · Amara Diallo
Meta’s Muse Image launch brings generative AI directly into Instagram’s social fabric, raising urgent questions about defaults, notice and consent for public posts used in AI-assisted creation.
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 9, 2026 · Amara Diallo
Copernicus data show western Europe recorded its hottest June on record, a climate signal with immediate consequences for heat health, wildfire risk and public infrastructure.
Read the story →TechnologyJul 8, 2026 · Amara Diallo
U.S. lawmakers are probing Chinese AI models inside American companies, but the bigger test is whether Washington can offer affordable, open, trusted alternatives before Chinese systems become default infrastructure.
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 8, 2026 · Amara Diallo
A small long-term study of an IDH1-targeted vaccine for aggressive astrocytoma found unusually durable survival and immune-response signals, but randomized trials are still needed before it can be called a proven treatment.
Read the story →TechnologyJul 7, 2026 · Amara Diallo
Samsung’s huge profit rebound still triggered a chip-stock selloff, showing that AI infrastructure expectations have become tougher than the headline recovery in semiconductors.
Read the story →Science & ClimateJul 7, 2026 · Amara Diallo
Perseverance’s latest organic-carbon findings make Mars sample return more urgent while stopping well short of proving ancient life.
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