Fri 03 December 2021: According to Bloomberg News on Wednesday, Apple has warned its parts suppliers that demand for the iPhone 13 range has decreased, signaling that some customers have decided not to try to purchase the hard-to-find item. According to the source, Apple had previously limited manufacturing of the iPhone 13 by up to […]
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Wed 01 December 2021: Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The two objects also have a much smaller separation than any other previously spotted pair of supermassive black holes and will eventually merge into one giant black […]
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Wed 01 December 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday that Australia will hold a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry into the behavior of the world’s major technology giants and the need for new legislation. Australia has taken the lead in international attempts to limit the dominance of companies such as Alphabet and Facebook, enacting legislation […]
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Mon 29 November 2021: Twitter announced on Monday that Parag Agrawal, the company’s chief technology officer, will succeed Jack Dorsey as CEO. “Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that Jack Dorsey has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer and that the board of Directors has unanimously appointed Parag Agrawal as CEO and a […]
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Sun 28 November 2021: The Chinese capital of Beijing launched its first commercial trial of autonomous driving and rolled out relevant management policies earlier this week, according to the city’s high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone office. The cumulative mileage of autonomous driving tests has reached nearly 3 million km since April this year with the […]
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Fri 26 November 2021: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has adopted the world’s first international artificial intelligence ethics rules, which restrict the use of the technology for “social scoring” and mass surveillance. Audrey Azoulay, the director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), introduced the world’s first global […]
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Fri 26 November 2021: Israel’s Defense Ministry is reportedly imposing new restrictions on where its cybersecurity firms can sell their surveillance and hacking technologies, drastically reducing the number of countries that are permitted for such deals. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, which became Israel’s new partners under the Abraham Accords last year, […]
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Wed 24 November 2021: A team of University of Arizona researchers has developed an ultra-thin wireless device that grows to the surface of bone and could someday help physicians monitor bone health and healing over long periods. The devices, called osseosurface electronics, are described in a paper published Thursday in Nature Communications. “As a surgeon, I […]
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Wed 24 November 2021: After the government announced on Tuesday that it would introduce a new financial regulation bill, India is on track to ban all but a few private cryptocurrencies. The ‘Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency’ bill will establish a framework for the Reserve Bank of India to issue an official digital […]
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Tue 23 November 2021: GoDaddy Inc claimed that up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers’ email addresses and customer numbers were exposed in a huge data breach. In a statement posted Monday evening, GoDaddy Inc, an internet domain registrar and web hosting firm, said that on November 17, 2021, the company found […]
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