Sat 01 March 2025: Skype, the iconic internet chat and phone service owned by Microsoft, has announced it will be shutting down in May. The company shared the news on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, marking the end of an era for a platform that started in 2003 and had long been a go-to service […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have officially ruled out the possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032, with the latest analysis reducing the risk to just 0.001% after months of fluctuating predictions. The near-Earth asteroid, measuring between 40 and 90 meters (131 to 295 feet) wide, […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: David Barnea says both operations reflect ‘intelligence penetration and a deep understanding of the enemy’ Chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service on Tuesday said his agents managed to deliver the first shipment of 500 pager devices in Lebanon, which later exploded and led to countless casualties, a few weeks before the […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: Wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Myanmar among those spurring ‘digital violence’. Governments around the world oversaw a record-breaking year for internet shutdowns in 2024, a new report on “digital violence” suggests. There were 296 internet shutdowns documented across 54 countries last year, surpassing the 283 shutdowns in 39 countries in 2023, […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: Apple has revealed intentions to channel over $500 billion into the United States across the next four years, with initiatives to onboard 20,000 new employees and construct a server facility in Texas. The announcement, made public on Monday, follows closely on the heels of President Donald Trump’s claim that Apple CEO […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: Authorities in India imposed 84 blackouts across 16 states and territories, a report by Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition has said. New Delhi: India imposed 84 internet shutdowns in 2024, only one behind Myanmar, which topped the list of global internet shutdowns. However, among democratic nations, India recorded the highest internet […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: Scientists are set to launch a spacecraft this week to map water on the Moon, which could help future efforts to colonise its surface. The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, which will launch from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, carries a state-of-the-art camera designed by a team of University of Oxford scientists to measure lunar surface temperature and confirm […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: The US-based electric vehicle giant Tesla’s sales in Europe dropped by 45.2% in January on a yearly basis, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) data released on Tuesday showed. Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla sold 9,945 units of vehicle in January, ACEA’s report showed, while this figure was at 18,161 units in […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: More than 1,520 start-ups and 600 investors gather in Doha for an expanded edition of the annual Web Summit. The future of artificial intelligence (AI) has been the focus of tech entrepreneurs and financial backers gathered in Doha for the second annual Web Summit hosted by Qatar. The four-day digital technology […]
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Sat 22 February 2025: Apple on Friday announced it will remove its highest level of data security, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), for users in the UK following government demands for access to encrypted user data. The decision, described by Apple as “gravely disappointing,” means that UK customers will no longer be able to activate the […]
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