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Apple announces iMacs for work-from-home world

Apple announces iMacs for work-from-home world

Reuters 2021-04-21 09:34:06

Apple announced on Tuesday (US standard time) a range of new computers, a paid podcasting service and devices for finding lost items, signalling the continued expansion of its once-simple product...

China plans $3bn supercomputing centre

China plans $3bn supercomputing centre

REUTERS 2021-04-20 15:52:47

China's southern space port of Wenchang will build a $3 billion supercomputing centre by year-end to analyse data obtained from space, according to state media on Tuesday. With a planned investment o...

NASA's helicopter Ingenuity makes successful maiden flight on Mars

NASA's helicopter Ingenuity makes successful maiden flight on Mars

Reuters 2021-04-20 11:50:23

NASA scored a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it sent its miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity buzzing above the surface of Mars for nearly 40 seconds, marking the first powered contr...

NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet

NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet

Reuters 2021-04-19 17:47:11

NASA's miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of anothe...

US banks deploy AI to monitor customers, workers

US banks deploy AI to monitor customers, workers

REUTERS 2021-04-19 17:31:56

Several U.S. banks have started deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences, monitor workers and spot people sleeping near ATMs, even as they remain wary about possible backlash ov...

Mars helicopter flight test promises Wright Brothers moment for NASA

Mars helicopter flight test promises Wright Brothers moment for NASA

-- 2021-04-18 21:05:14

NASA hopes to score a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered, controlled flight...

Google Earth's timelapse feature puts a spotlight on climate change

Google Earth's timelapse feature puts a spotlight on climate change

REUTERS 2021-04-17 21:14:44

Google Earth has added a timelapse feature to the popular platform, providing a glimpse into how climate change, urbanization and deforestation have altered the planet over the last four decades. Cre...

Three astronauts return to Earth after months in space

Three astronauts return to Earth after months in space

Reuters 2021-04-17 14:51:43

Three members of the International Space Station's crew returned safely to Earth on Saturday on a Russian Soyuz craft, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported. The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NA...

UAE partners with Japan to send rover to the moon in 2022

UAE partners with Japan to send rover to the moon in 2022

-- 2021-04-15 10:48:59

Lunar exploration company ispace will transport a United Arab Emirates rover to the moon in 2022, the company said on Wednesday, as the UAE pushes for rapid expansion in the space exploration business...

Facebook oversight board widens scope to rule on content

Facebook oversight board widens scope to rule on content

-- 2021-04-14 10:42:44

Facebook users will now be able to ask the company’s independent oversight board to rule on content that has been left up on the platform, not just content that has been taken down, in a key exp...

WHO, agencies urge countries to suspend sale of live wild mammals at markets

WHO, agencies urge countries to suspend sale of live wild mammals at markets

-- 2021-04-13 18:25:21

International agencies including the World Health Organization urged countries on Tuesday to suspend the sale of live wild mammals in food markets, warning they may be the source of more than 70 per c...

500 million LinkedIn users’ data posted for sale on hacker forum

500 million LinkedIn users’ data posted for sale on hacker forum

-- 2021-04-11 17:48:44

Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profile, was extracted and posted for sale, Microsoft Corp’s professional networking site said based on an investigation. The incident was...

Gender bias in Facebook's ads tools?

Gender bias in Facebook's ads tools?

-- 2021-04-10 12:58:14

Facebook users may not be learning about jobs for which they are qualified because the company’s tools can disproportionately direct ads to a particular gender “beyond what can be legally...

Facebook sued by US-based Muslim advocacy group for failure to police hate speech

Facebook sued by US-based Muslim advocacy group for failure to police hate speech

Reuters 2021-04-09 11:39:52

Civil rights group Muslim Advocates sued Facebook and its top executives on Thursday, alleging they misled the US Congress and others by falsely claiming the company removes content that violates its...

Google's AI scientist resigns after colleagues' firings

Google's AI scientist resigns after colleagues' firings

Reuters 2021-04-07 10:08:32

Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned...

Google finds US Supreme Court backing over Oracle in major copyright case

Google finds US Supreme Court backing over Oracle in major copyright case

REUTERS 2021-04-06 09:46:29

The US Supreme Court handed Alphabet Inc’s Google a major victory on Monday, ruling that its use of Oracle Corp’s software code to build the Android operating system that runs most of the...

Discord messaging platform launches Clubhouse-style feature

Discord messaging platform launches Clubhouse-style feature

Reuters 2021-04-01 10:17:38

Messaging platform Discord on Wednesday launched a new feature for people to hold live audio events for audiences, similar to the rapidly growing app Clubhouse. Discord, which offers voice, video and...

SpaceX Starship SN11 rocket fails to land safely after test launch

SpaceX Starship SN11 rocket fails to land safely after test launch

-- 2021-03-31 11:47:20

An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX said. “We do appear to have lo...

Spotify buys Locker Room app's maker Betty Labs

Spotify buys Locker Room app's maker Betty Labs

-- 2021-03-31 11:11:51

Spotify Inc said on Tuesday it has purchased Betty Labs, the company behind sports-focused social audio app Locker Room, to accelerate its move into live audio. New voice-based platforms, including i...

Google Maps to start using 'eco-friendly' routes

Google Maps to start using 'eco-friendly' routes

REUTERS 2021-03-30 18:32:50

Google's Maps app will start directing drivers along routes estimated to generate the lowest carbon emissions based on traffic, slopes and other factors, the company announced on Tuesday. Google, an...

Earth safe from asteroid for 100 years, NASA says

Earth safe from asteroid for 100 years, NASA says

-- 2021-03-27 21:06:10

NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid. The space agency announced this week that new telescope observations have ruled out any chance of Apophi...

OneWeb launches 36 satellites from Russia to extend internet orbit

OneWeb launches 36 satellites from Russia to extend internet orbit

Reuters 2021-03-26 14:12:01

OneWeb launched 36 satellites into orbit from a cosmodrome in the far east of Russia on Thursday as part of the satellite firm’s plans to deliver global high-speed internet access. The launch,...

NFT artwork by humanoid robot sells at auction for nearly $700,000

NFT artwork by humanoid robot sells at auction for nearly $700,000

-- 2021-03-26 14:02:19

A digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia was sold at auction on Thursday for $688,888 in the form of a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), the latest sign of a frenzy in the NFT art world. NFTs, a digital si...

India antitrust watchdog orders probe into WhatsApp policy

India antitrust watchdog orders probe into WhatsApp policy

Reuters 2021-03-25 13:07:57

India’s competition watchdog on Wednesday ordered a probe into a WhatsApp privacy policy update, saying the Facebook-owned messaging service had breached antitrust laws. The update announced in...

Chinese hackers used Facebook to target Uighurs abroad: Company

Chinese hackers used Facebook to target Uighurs abroad: Company

-- 2021-03-25 08:55:37

Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had blocked a group of hackers in China who used the platform to target Uighurs living abroad with links to malware that would infect their devices and enable surveil...

Musk confident SpaceX to land Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030

Musk confident SpaceX to land Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030

Reuters 2021-03-24 11:11:52

Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be landing its Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030, the billionaire entrepreneur said in a tweet on Tuesday. The private space company had raised about $850 millio...

Serena Williams-backed SPAC to take printing firm Velo3D public at $1.6b valuation

Serena Williams-backed SPAC to take printing firm Velo3D public at $1.6b valuation

Reuters 2021-03-24 10:51:08

Velo3D Inc will merge with a blank-check company backed by tennis star Serena Williams, in a deal that takes the 3D printing technology venture public at a combined value of $1.6 billion, the companie...

Tesla's in-car cameras raise privacy concerns

Tesla's in-car cameras raise privacy concerns

REUTERS 2021-03-24 08:06:31

Tesla Inc’s use of in-car cameras to record and transmit video footage of passengers to develop self-driving technology raises privacy concerns, influential US magazine Consumer Reports said on...

Ascend Technologies expands operations in Bangladesh

Ascend Technologies expands operations in Bangladesh

Ariyana A Khan   2021-03-23 21:42:26

Ascend Technologies, a US-based IT company, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, founded by Bangladeshi- American entrepreneur Kawser Jamal in 2003, has embarked on an expansion phase in Bangl...

Reporters without Borders sues Facebook over hate speech

Reporters without Borders sues Facebook over hate speech

-- 2021-03-23 17:47:20

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in France over hate speech and false information, the global media watchdog said in a statement on Tuesday, reports Reuters. RSF...