China’s robot censors crank up as Tiananmen anniversary nears
It’s the most sensitive day of the year for China’s internet, the anniversary of the bloody June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square,
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First satellites for Musk’s Starlink internet venture launched into orbit
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 23 (Reuters) – SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the first batch of
Veteran auto boss joins board of self-driving software startup
A company working to make open-source self-driving software reliable enough to be used in commercially available vehicles said it had hired a former German car
Old mold: Fossil of world’s earliest fungus unearthed in Canada
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – Microfossils of a globular spore connected to a T-shaped filament excavated in an Arctic region of northwestern
Huawei mobile users ponder switching brand after Google news
By Hazel Baker and Sankalp Phartiyal Time to abandon the Huawei phone? That was what some owners asked after US tech giant Google said
Facebook says removes 265 “fake accounts” linked to Israeli firm
Facebook said on Thursday it had removed 265 Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages, groups and events linked to an Israeli-based firm due to what it
Who burned Notre Dame? Going after fake news as EU election nears
By Robin Emmott, Alissa de Carbonnel and Conor Humphries The European Union has launched a coordinated fight against fake news ahead of this month’s European
Driverless electric truck starts deliveries in Sweden
Resembling the helmet of a Star Wars stormtrooper, a driverless electric truck began daily freight deliveries on a public road in Sweden on Wednesday, in what developer
Facebook restricts Live feature, citing New Zealand shooting
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it was tightening rules around its livestreaming feature ahead of a meeting of world
Israel regulator warns of medical cannabis bubble
Medical cannabis could become an investment bubble in Israel, the country’s market regulator warned, as cash floods into a rapidly-expanding industry where few companies yet
WhatsApp urges users to upgrade app after report of spyware attack
Facebook’s WhatsApp on Tuesday urged users to upgrade to the latest version of its popular messaging app following a report that users could be vulnerable
EU caps cross-border calls at 19 cents/min starting May 15
Phone calls made from one EU country to another EU country will be capped at 19 euro cents per minute effective May 15, the European
Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders, replace jobs
Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The company started adding technology
FB co-founder says it is time to break up the company
Facebook Inc co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Chris Hughes has called for the break up of the social network in an opinion piece in the
University of Nicosia announces ‘Decentralized 2019’
Organised by the University of Nicosia, a global leader in blockchain education and research, Decentralized 2019 promises to be bigger and better than before. The
Vaping companies facing European opposition
A push by makers of electronic cigarettes to raise nicotine levels in the European Union towards their far higher American levels is running into opposition,
Scientists warn a million species at risk of extinction
Relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an “unprecedented” one million species at risk of extinction,scientists said on Monday
Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and other extremist figures
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was banning Alex Jones and other controversial U.S. political personalities
Do ‘mechanical trees’ offer the cure for climate change?
By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK, April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Dublin-based company plans to erect “mechanical trees” in the United States that will
Cyprus Institute recreates site of the Last Supper in 3-D imagery
The Institute of Cyprus and the antiquities department of Israel have created a three-dimensional representation of the Cenacle in Jerusalem, the site of the Last