Washington, DC - Walmart is using its platform to take a stand against sexual exploitation, by instituting a broad sweep of all Walmart stores, removing Cosmopolitan Magazine from each and every checkout aisle. This unprecedented effort will impact more than 5,000 stores across our nation.

Sacramento, California - “Real food” is the rallying cry of Generation Z grocery shoppers, according to a recent report from The NPD Group.

Stanford, California - An influential physician and a philosopher of early Western medicine, Galen of Pergamon was the doctor of emperors and gladiators. One of his many works, “On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs,” was an important pharmaceutical text that would help educate fellow Greek-Roman doctors.

Los Angeles, California - News broke last week that a political data firm for the 2016 Trump campaign accessed private Facebook user data and then utilized it for targeting ads. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the “breach of trust” as a #DeleteFacebook movement began and amid reports that Cambridge Analytica was swept into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into election meddling. USC experts believe that for social media users’ protection, that is not how any of this should work.

Los Angeles, California - USC researchers issue a call to scientists around the world to help them create the first comprehensive model of a cell that is central to diabetes, the pancreatic beta cell.

Jacksonville, Florida - A new Google Chrome extension, released by Phish.ai, detects non-standard Unicode characters in domain names and warns users about the potential for a homograph attack. A homograph attack, sometimes known as Unicode Domain Phishing, uses non-standard characters to mimic the spelling and appearance of legitimate domains. Users think they’re logging into a trusted website when they’re actually having their credentials stolen or possibly even being infected with malware.