China launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40 a.m. Tuesday (November 20).
The satellites have successfully entered their preset orbit, according to the center.
Shiyan-6 will be used for conducting space environment exploration experiments. The term nanosatellite refers to a small artif...
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An iPhone X allegedly "exploded" as a user was in the process of installing a software update. This development comes in from the city of Federal Way, Washington in the US where a user claims that his 10-month old iPhone X "just got hot and exploded in the process of upgrading to [iOS 12.1]".
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China's state news agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader sporting a sharp suit and a somewhat robotic voice.
Xinhua News claims the presenter "can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor", though not everyone may agree.
"Hello, you are watching English news programme," says the English-speaking pr...
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Facebook has said it agrees with a report that found it had failed to prevent its platform being used to "incite offline violence" in Myanmar.
The independent report, commissioned by Facebook, said the platform had created an "enabling environment" for the proliferation of human rights abuse.
It comes after widespread violence against the Rohingya minority which the UN has said may amount to genocide.<...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said the company doesn't use customers' personal data for profit unlike some other firms.
In an interview with The Times on Monday, Mr Nadella said the company "had chosen not to squeeze the last drop of revenue from the troves of user data on its Bing search engine and the Linkedin soci...
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Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company's treatment of women.
The employees are demanding se...
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About 90 per cent of free apps on the Play store share user data with Google without their consent, according to a new Financial Times report. This data, which is said to include age, gender, location, and information about other apps, helps build detailed user pro...
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Google has sacked 48 people for sexual harassment in the last two years, it has emerged.
The terminations included 13 senior managers.
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, made the announcement in an email to all employees on Thursday (October 25).
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Facebook is working on an Unsend Message feature for Messenger. This will enable users to select certain inappropriate messages, and delete them from the chat within a certain time frame.
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