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Apple removes illegal lottery apps from China store

Apple removes illegal lottery apps from China store

-- 2018-08-20 14:15:48

American multinational technology company Apple Inc says it has pulled illegal lottery apps from its App Store in China amid tightening regulation and a barrage of criticism from state media. Accordi...

Body scanners to screen LA subway riders

Body scanners to screen LA subway riders

-- 2018-08-18 16:21:55

Body scanners will be used on the Los Angeles subway to screen passengers for explosives and weapons, the local transport authority has announced. It is the first mass transport system in the US to a...

Google staff demand more oversight  of China search engine plan

Google staff demand more oversight of China search engine plan

-- 2018-08-17 14:08:08

Google is not close to launching a search engine app in China, its chief executive said at a companywide meeting on Thursday, according to a transcript seen by Reuters, as employees of the Alphabet In...

‘Strange behaviour’ of Russian satellite concerns US

‘Strange behaviour’ of Russian satellite concerns US

-- 2018-08-16 16:10:02

A mysterious Russian satellite displaying ‘very abnormal behaviour’ has raised alarm in the US, reports BBC citing a State Department official. "We don't know for certain what it is and t...

Facebook struggling against hate speech in Myanmar

Facebook struggling against hate speech in Myanmar

-- 2018-08-16 12:55:53

Facebook has been “too slow” to address hate speech in Myanmar and is acting to remedy the problem, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The acknowledgement came a day after a Reu...

Wi-fi could be used to detect weapons, bombs

Wi-fi could be used to detect weapons, bombs

-- 2018-08-15 19:43:01

Ordinary wi-fi could be used to detect weapons and explosives in public places, reports BBC citing a study led by the Rutgers University in New Jersey. Wireless signals can penetrate bags to measure...

India to send manned flight into space

India to send manned flight into space

-- 2018-08-15 13:33:54

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the country will send a manned flight into space by 2022. The announcement came amid celebrations Wednesday of India's independence from British colonialist...

Google tracks users even after location history disabled

Google tracks users even after location history disabled

-- 2018-08-14 19:03:44

Google records users' locations even when they have asked it not to, BBC has said citing a report from the Associated Press. The issue could affect up to two billion Android and Apple devices which u...

Sainsbury's supermarket goes 'till-free'

Sainsbury's supermarket goes 'till-free'

-- 2018-08-14 17:09:25

Supermarket chain Sainsbury's - the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, with a 16.9 per cent share of the industry in the UK is trialling its first "till-free" store, in which...

China Mobile Hong Kong completes  5G network tests

China Mobile Hong Kong completes 5G network tests

FE Online Desk 2018-08-13 12:26:15

China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) Company Limited is the first network provider in Hong Kong to successfully complete end-to-end 5G network testing (client terminal to application). It made the announcem...

NASA launches mission to Sun

NASA launches mission to Sun

-- 2018-08-12 18:28:42

US space agency NASA has launched its mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before. The Parker Solar Probe rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The probe is set to become...

Researchers develop new way to make high-quality artificial wood

Researchers develop new way to make high-quality artificial wood

-- 2018-08-12 17:22:41

Chinese scientists developed a new strategy for large-scale fabrication of bio-inspired artificial wood that manifested lightweight and high-strength properties with the mechanical strength comparable...

NASA delays mission to Sun

NASA delays mission to Sun

-- 2018-08-11 18:26:46

US space agency NASA has delayed its mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before. The Parker Solar Probe was set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday, but last-minute...

Britain in race to launch 2,000 satellites

Britain in race to launch 2,000 satellites

-- 2018-08-11 17:08:36

British Business Secretary Greg Clark said Thursday Britain was poised to compete for the launch of an estimated 2,000 satellites by 2030. Clark expanded on the commercial opportunities to be gained...

Gene-editing startups ignite the next 'Frankenfood' fight

Gene-editing startups ignite the next 'Frankenfood' fight

-- 2018-08-10 15:17:26

In a suburban Minneapolis laboratory, a tiny company that has never turned a profit is poised to beat the world’s biggest agriculture firms to market with the next potential breakthrough in gene...

Samsung unveils Note 9

Samsung unveils Note 9

-- 2018-08-09 21:24:56

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 was unveiled on Thursday at the company’s annual ‘Unpacked’ event in New York. The new phone is part of Samsung’s productivity-focused Galaxy Note-series...

Egyptian students design car that runs on air

Egyptian students design car that runs on air

-- 2018-08-09 11:40:29

A group of Egyptian students has designed a vehicle they say will battle rising energy prices and promote clean energy by running on nothing but air. The undergraduate students, who built the vehicle...

Samsung Galaxy S7 vulnerable to hacking, researchers say

Samsung Galaxy S7 vulnerable to hacking, researchers say

-- 2018-08-08 14:00:02

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 smartphones contain a microchip security flaw, uncovered earlier this year, that put tens of millions of devices at risk to hackers looking to spy on their users, researche...

Appier launches AI-driven AIQUA

Appier launches AI-driven AIQUA

FE Online Desk 2018-08-07 16:06:57

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has launched AIQUA, a proactive marketing automation platform. It launched the platform, now available throughout the Asia-Pacific, on Tuesday,...

Singapore tests eye scans at immigration checkpoints

Singapore tests eye scans at immigration checkpoints

-- 2018-08-07 13:15:05

Singapore has started scanning travellers’ eyes at some of its border checkpoints, its immigration authority said on Monday, in a trial of expensive technology that could one day replace fingerp...

Astronomers discover "rogue planet" outside solar system

Astronomers discover "rogue planet" outside solar system

-- 2018-08-06 17:39:09

Scientists have made the first radio-telescope detection of a huge free-floating planet beyond our solar system, a new study said. The planetary-mass object, called SIMP J01365663+0933473, is about a...

Italian professor wins Fields Medal

Italian professor wins Fields Medal

-- 2018-08-05 17:07:55

Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli has won the Fields Medal, which is awarded every four years to the most accomplished mathematicians in the world under the age of 40, the International Mathematic...

Five big things that have made Apple

Five big things that have made Apple

-- 2018-08-04 13:40:49

It has been called the most successful company in history. And it's just become the world's first public company to be worth $1 trillion (£767bn). So how has it done it? Here's a quick look a...

Lemurs on the verge of extinction

Lemurs on the verge of extinction

-- 2018-08-03 17:29:54

Almost every species of lemur, wide-eyed primates unique to Madagascar, is under threat of extinction. That is the conclusion of an international group of conservationists, who carried out an assessm...

Bezos throws cash, engineers into space race

Bezos throws cash, engineers into space race

-- 2018-08-03 17:15:38

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is racing to pull his private space company out of start-up mode and move into production amid signals that his firm’s heavy rocket set for lift-off in 2020 may sli...

Ex-Obama official to lead Britain’s tech economy team

Ex-Obama official to lead Britain’s tech economy team

-- 2018-08-02 20:16:27

Britain has hired Jason Furman, chief economist in former US President Barack Obama’s administration, to chair a new panel that will steer its approach to digital technology, the UK government s...

Google ‘plans censored China search engine’

Google ‘plans censored China search engine’

-- 2018-08-02 14:54:59

Google is developing a version of its search engine that will conform to China's censorship laws, reports say. The company shut down the engine in 2010, complaining that free speech was being limited...

Facebook, Instagram introduce time limit tool

Facebook, Instagram introduce time limit tool

-- 2018-08-01 18:28:27

Facebook and Instagram are releasing a new tool to limit how much time people spend on their apps. The announcement follows concerns that excessive social media usage can have a negative impact on me...

Facebook uncovers meddling ahead of US midterm poll

Facebook uncovers meddling ahead of US midterm poll

-- 2018-08-01 11:15:11

Facebook has identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead users and organise rallies ahead of November’s US congressional elections, taking down dozens of fake accounts...

Thousands download 3D-printed gun designs

Thousands download 3D-printed gun designs

-- 2018-07-31 19:43:15

Blueprints for 3D-printed guns, published online four days early amid last-minute attempts to ban them, have been downloaded thousands of times. The designs were not due to be made public until Wedne...