Thu 21 November 2024: The Australian government has prepared a bill that bans social media use for children under the age of 16. If the bill is approved, technology companies will face hefty fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars (approximately 32.5 million USD) if they violate this ban. On Thursday, Australia’s Minister for Communications, Michelle Rowland, […]
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Wed 20 November 2024: Australian researchers have found a way to make stronger and crack-resistant concrete using scrap carpet fibers in a breakthrough for sustainable construction. The team of engineers and textile researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne discovered that incorporating carpet fibers and other discarded textiles, including clothing fabrics, into concrete can reduce cracking […]
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Tue 19 November 2024: The US Justice Department will ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell its Chrome internet browser, according to media reports on Monday. According to sources speaking to Bloomberg, the DOJ reportedly intends to recommend that Google be ordered to sell off its Chrome browser as a remedy in its […]
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Mon 18 November 2024: Twitch has updated its “Hateful Conduct Policy” to include “Zionist” as a potential slur, amid growing content critical of the occupation state and the genocide it is committing in Gaza, as well as its aggression against Lebanon, on the platform. The Amazon-owned streaming service announced the change in a blog post on Friday, […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: Will the next human to walk on the Moon speak English or Mandarin? In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. Now, both the US and China are preparing to send humans back there this decade. However, the US lunar programme is delayed, in part because the spacesuits […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: Unredacted court documents released on Thursday (Nov 14) show that NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware, admitted to developing exploits to hack into the phones of around 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019. This operation, according to WhatsApp, violated both federal and state laws. The information came to light as […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: The European Commission on Thursday fined U.S. tech giant Meta 797.72 million euros (about 837.61 million U.S. dollars) for breaching EU antitrust rules and abusing its dominant positions in the markets. “The Commission has fined Meta … for breaching EU antitrust rules by tying its online classified ads service Facebook Marketplace […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: Electric vehicle (EV) sales broke a record in October with 1.7 million units in sales, driven by strong demand in China, according to UK-based Rho Motion research house on Wednesday. The sales were up 35% year-on-year and 3% month-on-month, Rho Motion data showed. “The global EV market is now picking back […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: A team of physicists from the University of Münster has created the world’s smallest QR code, earning them a place in the Guinness Book of Records. The QR code measures 5.38 square micrometres, which, according to the university, is approximately 20 times smaller than the previous world record held by a research group from […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: Micro-blogging site says it now has more than 15 million users, up from nine million in September. Social media platform Bluesky has gained more than one million new users since the US presidential election, benefitting from an exodus of people unhappy with the direction of X under billionaire owner Elon Musk. […]
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