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NASA's rover faces 'seven minutes of terror' before landing on Mars

NASA's rover faces 'seven minutes of terror' before landing on Mars

REUTERS 2021-02-15 10:26:44

When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio a...

Alphabet, Microsoft, Qualcomm protest against Nvidia's acquisition of Arm

Alphabet, Microsoft, Qualcomm protest against Nvidia's acquisition of Arm

Reuters 2021-02-14 10:52:52

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an in-depth probe into Nvidia Corp’s agreement to acquire Arm Ltd, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a source. The FTC has sent information demands...

Facebook building Clubhouse-like audio chat product

Facebook building Clubhouse-like audio chat product

-- 2021-02-11 10:41:05

Facebook Inc is building a new audio chat product similar to audio-based social network Clubhouse, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Clubhouse, launche...

India slams Twitter amid face off over content

India slams Twitter amid face off over content

Reuters 2021-02-11 10:15:02

India rebuked Twitter on Wednesday for not complying with its orders to take down certain content and warned the social media giant that it needs to obey local laws, even as Indian lawmakers urged the...

Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3.0b deal to build low earth orbit satellites

Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3.0b deal to build low earth orbit satellites

Reuters 2021-02-10 14:48:15

Canadian satellite company Telesat on Tuesday tapped Thales Alenia Space to build 300 low earth orbit (LEO) telecommunications satellites in a contract worth about $3 billion, saying the first launch...

Facebook to remove posts with false vaccine claims

Facebook to remove posts with false vaccine claims

-- 2021-02-10 13:15:42

Facebook is expanding its efforts to remove more Covid-19 conspiracies that discourage vaccination against coronavirus, according to an announcement by the company. "Since December, we've removed fal...

UAE's Hope Probe enters orbit in first Arab Mars mission

UAE's Hope Probe enters orbit in first Arab Mars mission

-- 2021-02-10 11:16:59

The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars reached the red planet and entered orbit on Tuesday after a seven-month, 494 million-km (307 million-mile) journey, allowing it to start sending d...

Windows 10 to get new look this year

Windows 10 to get new look this year

-- 2021-02-09 16:18:09

Windows 10 has a major design overhaul inbound for later in 2021, at least in theory, and we’ve caught a number of glimpses of what interface changes might be in store – with another one j...

Jeff Bezos will seek to shift space venture Blue Origin into hyperdrive

Jeff Bezos will seek to shift space venture Blue Origin into hyperdrive

REUTERS 2021-02-09 10:53:01

Freed from his daily obligations at Amazon.com Inc, Jeff Bezos is expected to turn up the heat on his space venture, Blue Origin, as it faces a pivotal year and fierce competition from Elon Musk&rsquo...

Facebook will take down 'false' vaccine claims

Facebook will take down 'false' vaccine claims

Reuters 2021-02-09 10:01:30

Facebook said on Monday it will expand a list of false health claims it bans from the platform to include debunked claims about vaccines in general, such as that they are toxic or cause autism. The s...

Twitter seeking talks with India after order to remove accounts

Twitter seeking talks with India after order to remove accounts

Reuters 2021-02-09 09:39:47

Twitter said on Monday it was seeking talks with India’s technology minister, days after the country asked the US social media giant to take down 1,178 accounts it says are spreading misinformat...

Chip designer Dialog confirms $6.0b Renesas offer talks

Chip designer Dialog confirms $6.0b Renesas offer talks

-- 2021-02-08 11:01:01

Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp has said it is in talks to buy British-based Dialog Semiconductor in a deal that would bolster its automotive chip business and value the Apple Inc supplier at a...

Google opens paid-for Australia news platform

Google opens paid-for Australia news platform

-- 2021-02-06 11:22:54

Tech giant Google on Friday launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own content deals with publishers in a drive to show legislation proposed by Canberra to enforc...

Scientists discover tiny chameleon that can fit on fingertip

Scientists discover tiny chameleon that can fit on fingertip

Reuters 2021-02-05 16:46:37

Scientists say they discovered a sunflower seed-sized subspecies of chameleon that may well be the smallest reptile on Earth. Two of the miniature lizards, one male and one female, were discovered by...

Google phone cameras to read heart, breathing rates

Google phone cameras to read heart, breathing rates

-- 2021-02-05 14:05:04

Cameras on Google Pixel smartphones will be able to measure heart and breathing rates starting next month, in one of the first applications of Alphabet Inc’s artificial intelligence technology t...

Instagram disables hundreds of accounts tied to hacking

Instagram disables hundreds of accounts tied to hacking

-- 2021-02-05 12:25:54

Facebook Inc on Thursday took down hundreds of Instagram accounts that were hacked and sold for their high-value usernames, including the accounts of people behind this activity. A Facebook spokeswom...

Spotify outlook weakens as uncertainty persists

Spotify outlook weakens as uncertainty persists

-- 2021-02-04 11:20:09

Spotify on Wednesday forecast that revenue and paid subscribers would miss Wall Street estimates this quarter due to uncertainty over how long the coronavirus crisis would last and with it a surge in...

Facebook bans page linked to Myanmar military TV

Facebook bans page linked to Myanmar military TV

Reuters 2021-02-03 11:07:02

Facebook said on Tuesday it had removed a page linked to Myanmar’s military-owned TV network after a coup this week by the country’s military leaders. UN human rights investigators previo...

Wikipedia launches new rules to fight site abuses

Wikipedia launches new rules to fight site abuses

Reuters 2021-02-02 19:45:12

The foundation that operates Wikipedia will launch its first global code of conduct on Tuesday, seeking to address criticism that it has failed to combat harassment and suffers from a lack of diversit...

South Korean's AI technology brings back folk singer's voice

South Korean's AI technology brings back folk singer's voice

Reuters 2021-02-02 13:42:57

Even though South Korean folk rock singer Kim Kwang-seok has been dead for nearly 25 years, his fans will be able to hear him perform a new song cover on Friday thanks to artificial intelligence (AI)...

Microsoft talks Bing with Australia PM as Google plans exit from the country

Microsoft talks Bing with Australia PM as Google plans exit from the country

Reuters 2021-02-01 11:20:13

Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said...

EU hearing of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google pushed back by 2 months

EU hearing of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google pushed back by 2 months

-- 2021-01-30 13:09:50

EU lawmakers, who are gearing up to curb the power of US tech giants, have told Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet that they are willing to push back a proposed Feb. 1 hearing by two months. The Eu...

Govt plans to develop another software technology park in Dhaka

Govt plans to develop another software technology park in Dhaka

-- 2021-01-29 18:59:08

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the government plans to develop a second software technology park in Dhaka to create skilled IT professionals. The announcement came at the opening...

Apple's Cook criticises social media practices, intensifying Facebook conflict

Apple's Cook criticises social media practices, intensifying Facebook conflict

Reuters 2021-01-29 11:25:27

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on Thursday criticised polarisation and misinformation on social media, intensifying a conflict between the iPhone maker and Facebook. In remarks delivered at t...

Google to stop using Apple tool to track iPhone users

Google to stop using Apple tool to track iPhone users

-- 2021-01-28 12:01:36

Google’s iPhone apps such as Maps and YouTube will stop using a tool from Apple Inc that allows them to personalise ads, avoiding a new Apple warning that informs users their browsing is being t...

Twitter suspends My Pillow CEO for election misinformation

Twitter suspends My Pillow CEO for election misinformation

Reuters 2021-01-27 11:03:49

Twitter has permanently suspended the account of My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell for repeated violations of the company’s policy on election misinformation, the social media firm said. L...

Facebook blocks Israel's Netanyahu chatbot

Facebook blocks Israel's Netanyahu chatbot

Reuters 2021-01-26 13:05:49

Facebook said on Monday it removed a post and suspended a messenger bot from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s page, after it posted that he wanted phone numbers to call and convince p...

Sophia makers plan mass rollout amid pandemic

Sophia makers plan mass rollout amid pandemic

REUTERS 2021-01-26 11:03:43

“Social robots like me can take care of the sick or elderly,” Sophia says as she conducts a tour of her lab in Hong Kong. “I can help communicate, give therapy and provide social sti...

Google workers to form global union alliance

Google workers to form global union alliance

REUTERS 2021-01-26 10:46:28

Google employees from across the globe are forming a union alliance, weeks after workers at the search engine giant and other units of parent company Alphabet Inc formed a labor union for US and Canad...

Twitter introduces tool to tackle misinformation

Twitter introduces tool to tackle misinformation

REUTERS 2021-01-26 10:32:48

Twitter Inc said on Monday it launched a pilot programme that has users flag tweets that they believe are misleading and write notes to provide context. The project, called Birdwatch, is initially of...