🚀 Let's Warp the curve of humanity's future together
When we started Warp News, our goal was to provide balance to the negative tone in media. The world needed some fact-based optimism.
🔬 Israeli scientists are close to a coronavirus vaccine
The vaccine could be ready in a few weeks, and the approval process in 90 days.
👩🚀👨🚀These two explorers could be the first humans on Mars
Tina and Tom Sjogren are explorers. They've climbed Mount Everest, gone back-to-back to the North- and the South Pole, but sort of ran out of new challenges on Earth. Instead, they are looking up in space, more specifically to Mars.
👩⚕️ 15 fact-based optimistic news about the coronavirus
Most of the news about the coronavirus is of course negative, but there are glimmers of hope out there, and a lot is being done to fight the virus.
🤳 The Internet has made Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump possible
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump would have been chanceless years ago, but because of the internet, they can get past the party's gatekeepers and win.
👩⚕️ Gates Foundation launches initiative to speed development of therapies for the coronavirus
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard have committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 epidemic by identifying, assessing, developing, and scaling-up treatments.
🧬 Google's super AI helps scientists understand the coronavirus
DeepMind became famous by winning over humans in the complicated board game Go, but the artificial intelligence can also be used to understand a virus and help find a vaccine.
✍️ Global literacy at record high level
In 1820 only 12% of the people in the world could read and write, today the share has reversed and almost 90 percent are literate.
💉 Congo free from Ebola
The last patient treated for Ebola in Congo-Kinshasa has been discharged, reports the WHO. The major Ebola crisis in the country may be over.