Wed 26 August 2020: Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has delivered one more unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) – the ANKA – with a longer range and equipped with an automatic identification system and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), to the Turkish Naval Forces (DzKK), the manufacturer said Monday. The TAI announced the delivery in a statement published […]
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Tue 25 August 2020: Following audit, sizable payment of $125M includes penalties over span of 9 years, says company PARIS – Facebook France announced Monday that it will pay the French government €106 million ($125 million) in back taxes and penalties for the years 2009-2018. The payment comes after an in-depth audit by the French […]
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Mon 24 August 2020: Rebuffing Trump’s ‘decoupling’ comment, Beijing says China and US should jointly ‘shoulder responsibilities for the world’ China Monday put its weight behind social media app TikTok’s move to mount a legal case against the US government. Addressing a news conference in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said: “US politicians’ […]
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Sat 22 August 2020: Political row simmers over Facebook’s reported tolerance to hate speech by leaders linked to ruling party NEW DELHI, India – Facebook said Friday it is “and always has been an open, transparent and non-partisan platform where people can express themselves freely,” as a political controversy erupts about the company’s reported tolerance […]
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Mon 17 August 2020: Any use of American software or equipment to produce things for Huawei is banned, says commerce secretary US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday expanded restrictions on Chinese telecom company Huawei over the company’s alleged ties with the Chinese Communist Party. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Fox Business that Huawei’s access […]
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Fri 14 August 2020: As educators worldwide have reinvented their practice online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Google will adopt new tools to help make virtual education easier. “At Google, we’re honored to work on tools that lighten the load for teachers, school leaders, families, and especially the students who have navigated learning from home […]
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Thu 13 August 2020: Robot sales are expected to boom in 2020, estimated to reach 1 million units, the director of the global audit and consulting firm Deloitte’s Canada branch said Thursday. With income forecast to rise annually by 40% to $17 billion more than half of the purchases are expected to be of professional service robots, […]
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Wed 12 August 2020: DDoS attacks jump 217% during pandemic as people rely more on digital technologies ISTANBUL (AA) – Global distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks tripled in the second quarter of 2020, said a report by global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky released Wednesday. Kaspersky experts believe that behind the increasing malicious activity is the impact of […]
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Wed 12 August 2020: The leading social network released its latest enforcement report as it announced updated policies to bar specific kinds of “implicit hate speech” such as blackface and “stereotypes about Jewish people controlling the world.” The “proactive detection rate” rose six percent to 95 percent, with the leading social network acting on 22.5 […]
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Sun 09 August 2020: Twitter Inc has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the U.S. operations of the videosharing app, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as experts raised doubts over Twitter’s ability to put together financing for a potential deal. witter Inc has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance […]
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