Sat 03 May 2025: “Cyber security” may sound like a far-off worry for big corporations or telcos, but that’s far from the case. Cyber security simply means the practice of safeguarding your sensitive data from unauthorised access, theft and damage. If you have any online accounts at all, you should know how best to protect them. That’s also […]
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Sat 03 May 2025: The CEO of Saudi Arabia’s futuristic city Neom launched a “comprehensive review” of the kingdom’s mega-project, signifying more belt-tightening to come with falling energy prices. One person familiar with the review told The Financial Times on Monday that the scope of several projects surrounding Neom was being reviewed due to “an […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app, now boasts over 3 billion monthly users, as announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the company’s Q1 results call. Having reached 2 billion users in 2020, it joins an elite group, including Meta’s Facebook, in surpassing the 3 billion user mark. Because of its enormous user base, […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: Near a planet far, far away, astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings. Astronomers have found the clearest evidence yet that life might exist beyond the solar system, from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away from Earth, setting off rare […]
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Thu 01 May 2025: In 1948, as the foundations of the Israeli state were being laid upon the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (AFFFI), condemning the growing Zionist militancy within the settler Jewish community. “When a real and final […]
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Thu 01 May 2025: A new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has revealed that the majority of migrant people who died on the move had not migrated by choice, but out of desperation caused by conflict, insecurity, disasters, and other humanitarian crises. More than 52,000 people have died globally since 2014 while […]
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Wed 30 April 2025: Researchers in Australia and Canada have developed a machine learning algorithm capable of identifying cardiovascular risks, as well as fall and fracture potential, using standard bone density scans, according to a statement Tuesday by Australia’s Edith Cowan University (ECU). Created in partnership with the University of Manitoba, the automated system analyzes vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) images to detect […]
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Wed 30 April 2025: US President Donald Trump‘s first 100 days in office rallied cryptocurrencies, as he set out to make the US the “crypto capital of the world,” leading Bitcoin to reach a historic high of $110,000. Trump took office on Jan. 20 and tapped some pro-crypto names for his cabinet, namely Secretary of Commerce Howard […]
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Tue 29 April 2025: Amnesty International on Monday slammed US President Donald Trump‘s first 100 days in office as a disaster for human rights. “President Trump’s first 100 days have been disastrous for human rights in the US and internationally,” Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard said during a meeting in Brussels before Tuesday’s launch of the group’s State of […]
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Mon 28 April 2025: Egyptian authorities have demolished the historic Mahmoud Pasha al-Falaky Mosque and are accelerating the destruction of Old Cairo’s cemeteries under the banner of urban development—sparking outrage among heritage advocates and locals. According to Mada Masr, in the early hours last Wednesday, bulldozers flattened the mosque’s dome and minaret, part of the 19th-century funerary complex […]
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