Thu 22 February 2024: Social media platform X has removed a number of accounts and posts in response to an order from the Indian government. These posts and accounts are allegedly connected to recent farmer protests demanding higher prices for their crops. The site, which was once known as Twitter, stated on Thursday that it […]
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Thu 22 February 2024: On February 19, the UK government announced new regulations banning cell phones from all English schools. The government of Rishi Sunak will assist head teachers in monitoring student use of mobile devices during the school day, particularly during break. The goal of the new policy is to ensure that every school […]
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Wed 21 February 2024: Islamabad, Pakistan: Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, continues to remain inaccessible to users in Pakistan after internet watchdog groups started to report outages on Saturday. NetBlocks, an organisation that monitors accessibility issues on the internet, On February 17 confirmed that a “national-scale disruption” has hit X in Pakistan in […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against Chinese social media platform TikTok after preliminary investigation on breaching the bloc’s digital services act. According to a commission statement, TikTok may have breach the act “in areas linked to the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access for researchers, as well as […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: Astroscale Japan announced on Monday that it has successfully launched a spacecraft meant to analyze and perhaps remove man-made space junk from around the Earth. Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) has undertaken an Active Debris Removal program. According to AFP, it will rendezvous with and study a 15-year-old Japanese H2A rocket wreckage in space. […]
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Mon 19 February 2024: Misinformation is the number one risk facing society over the next two years, according to the World Economic Forum. With key elections due in the US, UK and many other nations this year, an onslaught of political misinformation can be expected. Some of this material is distributed through paid advertising on social […]
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Russia’s Nauka module undergoes launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos (FILE PHOTO) Sun 18 February 2024: Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite weapon that is “troubling” but poses no immediate threat, the White House has said. National security spokesman John Kirby said US intelligence officials had information that Russia had developed […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: Japan has successfully launched its next-generation rocket into orbit, the country’s space agency has announced, after two failed attempts cast a pall over Tokyo’s space ambitions. The H3 had a “successful liftoff” at 9:22am Tokyo time (12:22 GMT) on Saturday and entered its planned orbit carrying a dummy satellite and two […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: The top tech firms in the world promised on Friday to combat the deceptive use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the elections of 2024, Anadolu Agency reported. Twenty tech companies, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and X, pledged to collaborate in order to identify and prevent harmful AI content in […]
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Fri 16 February 2024: YouTube, the world’s biggest video-sharing platform with over 2 billion active users, turned 19 this month. Founded on Feb. 14, 2005 by three entrepreneurs, it was acquired by the technology giant Google for $1.65 billion slightly over a year and a half after its inception. Serving as a staple in the […]
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