Wed 05 June 2024: Smart city technologies are projected to become a $100 billion industry in 2024, driven by the increasing adoption of innovative urban solutions, according to a new report from Stocklytics.com. The market size has surged by 140% over the past five years, leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) and various software, user […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope temporarily suspended operations, the US space agency announced Tuesday. “NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue, suspending science operations. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health,” NASA said in a statement. “The telescope automatically […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: Elon Musk’s social media platform X has updated its policies to formally allow adult content. Under the updated guidelines, the platform formerly known as Twitter will allow users to share sexualised content so long as it is consensual and clearly labelled. The revised policy, which was updated over the weekend, states […]
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This undated handout photo taken by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and released on June 4, 2024 shows a general view of of the surface of the Moon, which was shot by the panoramic camera attached to the Chang’e-6 lunar probe before it started collecting samples [Handout/China National Space Administration. Tue 04 June […]
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Mon 03 June 2024: Apple has blocked more than $7 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions on its App Store over the past four years. Between 2020 and 2023, the company also stopped over 14 million stolen credit cards and 3.3 million accounts from making transactions. In a statement, Apple revealed that it prevented over $1.8 […]
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Mon 03 June 2024: More than 300 million children across the globe are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse each year, research suggested. In what is believed to be the first global estimate of the scale of the crisis, researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that 12.6% of the world’s children have been […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made a surprising move by joining TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform he sought to ban during his presidency. Trump’s account, @realdonaldtrump, garnered over 450,000 followers shortly after he posted a launch video Saturday night, featuring his appearance at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event in […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: China has successfully landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a significant milestone in its mission to collect the first rock and soil samples from this lunar hemisphere. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that the Chang’e-6 spacecraft touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin at […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: TikTok, which is facing a potential nationwide ban in the US, refuted claims that it is creating a separate US-only algorithm to circumvent the ban. A media report had suggested that TikTok was developing a distinct recommendation algorithm, independent of Douyin, the Chinese version operated by ByteDance. “The Reuters story published […]
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Sat 01 June 2024: Elon Musk announced that SpaceX aims to make space travel accessible to everyone, with plans for journeys to the Moon and Mars. Musk stated that SpaceX is on track to handle over 90% of Earth’s payload to low-Earth orbit this year. “Over time, SpaceX will enable anyone to go to space […]
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