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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Thu 14 November 2024: The British news outlet quits X citing ‘disturbing content’ on the platform, including racism and conspiracy theories. British news outlet The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on X due to the “disturbing content” on the “toxic media platform”, including racism and conspiracy theories. The Guardian wrote on […]
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Wed 13 November 2024: In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content on social media and news websites, data scientists are getting creative. While still in their training wheels, the large language models (LLMs) used to create chatbots like ChatGPT are being recruited to spot fake news. With better detection, AI fake news checking systems may be able […]
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Tue 12 November 2024: The price of Bitcoin reached almost $90,000 level on Tuesday, hitting historical high levels. During the last 24-hour period, the price of the largest cryptocurrency saw a low of $80,800 and a high of $89,900. It was at $70,000 level a week ago, and gained around 30% in the seven-day period […]
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December 2023 – Dakar, Senegal launched sub-Saharan Africa’s first all-electric bus rapid transit network of 23 bus stations. Mon 11 November 2024: In sub-Saharan Africa, high levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution from vehicle tailpipe emissions cause poor health, developmental stunting, and even death. Vehicle emissions also contribute to global warming. Electric vehicles could help solve these problems but they’ve been […]
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