Fri 04 April 2025: Muslim dating app Salams has come under fire following its quiet acquisition by US-based Match Group — the company behind Tinder, Hinge and OKCupid. The deal, finalised in October 2023, was only disclosed in a February 2024 earnings report, with no official announcement or communication to Salams’ 7.5 million users. The […]
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Thu 03 April 2025: Apple’s market value plummeted by over $250 billion on Thursday, marking it as one of Wall Street’s hardest-hit victims of Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff campaign, even after CEO Tim Cook’s attempts to build ties with the administration. The iPhone giant’s stock dropped by up to 8.5% at the opening of trading […]
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Thu 03 April 2025: China has announced that it has successfully launched a new satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. The satellite, Tianping-3A 02, was launched at 10.12 a.m. Beijing time (0212GMT) aboard a Long March-6 carrier rocket and entered its preset orbit successfully, Xinhua News Agency reported […]
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Tue 01 April 2025: SpaceX has made history with the first crewed mission to orbit Earth’s poles aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The Fram2 mission’s unique trajectory when it launched Monday at 9.46 p.m. ET (0146GMT) takes it directly above the North and South poles, a feat never before attempted […]
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Tue 01 April 2025: Apple remained the world’s most valuable company on Monday, reaching a market capitalization of $3.3 trillion, 49 years after its founding. Despite recent volatility in technology stocks driven by trade policy uncertainty in the US, Apple’s shares rose 28% in 2024. The company’s valuation, which stood at $2.6 trillion in March […]
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Tue 01 April 2025: Companies are selling homes in illegal settlements and individuals are fundraising to buy weapons for Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Facebook has platformed more than 100 paid advertisements promoting illegal settlements and far-right settler activity in the occupied West Bank, an Al Jazeera investigation has found, raising concerns that the social media giant is […]
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Mon 31 March 2025: The founder of ByteDance, and owner of TikTok, Zhang Yiming, became the richest person in China. Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed on Thursday that he became the world’s 24th richest person. Forbes Billionaires List and Hurun Rich List, a ranking of the richest individuals in China, also showed that he is the […]
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Sat 29 March 2025: Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic capabilities” and turn a profit from the popular devices. Starting today (March 28), Alexa devices will send all audio recordings to the cloud for processing, and choosing not to save these recordings will […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune for the first time, NASA said on Wednesday. The data was obtained in June 2023 using Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph. In addition to the image of the planet, astronomers obtained a spectrum to characterize the composition and measure the temperature […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: Genetic testing company’s bankruptcy proceedings could result in auction of the genetic data of 15 million users. Users of 23andMe, a direct-to-consumer genetic testing site, are being urged to delete their personal data from the website following the company’s bankruptcy filing in the United States on March 23. Here’s why it matters. What […]
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