Fri 26 February 2021: ByteDance has agreed to a $92 million class-action settlement to settle data privacy claims from some US TikTok users, according to documents filed Thursday in US District Court in Illinois. ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the short video app that has more than 100 million US users, agreed to the […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: Bitcoin plummeted as much as 17% on Tuesday as investors grew nervous about its sky-high valuations, triggering the liquidation of leveraged bets and sparking a sell-off across cryptocurrency markets. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency was facing its biggest daily drop in a month, falling to as low as $45,000. In choppy trading, […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: The U.S. space agency NASA on Monday released the first video of the landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The video clip, lasting three minutes and 25 seconds, showed the deployment of the parachute and the rover’s touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet. Your front-row seat to my […]
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Mon 22 February 2021: Chinese spies used code first developed by the US National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said today Reuters reported. Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies issued a report noting that some features in a piece of China-linked malware it dubs “Jian” were so similar they could only have been […]
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Fri 19 February 2021: Turkey’s plans for its own space programme will cost over $1 billion and will begin with a rocket being launched from a site in Somalia, it has been revealed. It is hoped that it will culminate in a shuttle craft being used to conduct scientific research. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan released […]
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Fri 19 February 2021: Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp said on Thursday it will go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update but will allow users to read it at “their own pace” and will also display a banner providing additional information. The messaging platform laid out fresh terms in January, aimed at increasing business transactions on the platform. […]
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Fri 19 February 2021: After a nerve-wracking seven-minute descent, NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars on Thursday afternoon, beginning what is slated to be an almost two-year search for ancient life on the red planet. The rover touched down at the massive Jezero Crater, which scientists believe could contain the signs of ancient […]
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Thu 18 February 2021: Amid the raging controversy over privacy on WhatsApp, the Indian government is planning a whole new approach – its own version of the messaging app. Sources in the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology (MeITY) have confirmed to NDTV that two such apps are being tested in their beta stage. […]
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Thu 18 February 2021: On Thursday morning Facebook began preventing Australian news sites from posting, while also stopping Australian users from sharing or viewing content from any news outlets, both Australian and international Facebook stepping up its campaign against government plans to force technology giants to pay publishers for their news content. The Bureau of Meteorology, […]
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Wed 17 February 2021: More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, NASA intends to prove it’s possible to replicate the feat on another world. Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft that arrives at the Red Planet on Thursday, the small Ingenuity helicopter will have several challenges to overcome—the biggest being the […]
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