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China crackdowns on Apple store, holy book apps, Audible
Amazon's audiobook service Audible, and apps for smartphones for reading the holy books in Islam and Christianity have been removed from the Apple Store in China. This is the latest example of China's stricter...
Microsoft closes down the LinkedIn app in China after intense scrutiny
Microsoft will shut down its main LinkedIn service for China in the latter part of this year, following tightening internet rules by Beijing. This is the latest American tech company to cut ties with...
Big data, big picture: Swiss reveal VR software for the universe
This is the final frontier, or at least it has been close. One of Switzerland's most prestigious universities has released open-source beta software Tuesday. It allows virtual visits to the cosmos, including past the Moon,...
Facebook could sue Frances Haugen, whistleblower
Facebook recently took a more harsh tone towards Frances Haugen, a whistleblower. This suggests that the social media network might be considering legal retaliation for Haugen's public disclosure of internal research she had done...
Microsoft: Russia is behind 58% of state-backed hacks
Microsoft detected most state-sponsored hacking in Russia over the past year with a 58% share. This mostly targeted government agencies and think tank in the United States. The UK, Ukraine and European NATO members...
Facebook blames error in routine maintenance for outage
The global outage that post, that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went dark "not by malicious activity but because of an error of our own making." This problem happened as engineers were working on Facebook's global backbone...
UAE launches probe to target asteroid between Mars and Jupiter
Tuesday's announcement by the United Arab Emirates was that a probe will be sent to land on an Asteroid between Mars, Jupiter and collect data about the origins of our universe. This is the...
After week of scandal, Ozy CEO says it is ‘premature to close down’
Ozy Media's CEO said Monday that it was premature to close down the company. He stated that he wanted to continue operating, despite scandals that exposed Ozy as a media outlet that had little...
Dubai Expo 2020: 5 workers die on the site for the first time
Expo 2020 in Dubai acknowledged Saturday that five workers were killed during construction of the huge world's fair. This was the first time that worker fatalities have been recorded. Expo stated that the site was...
Far-right cryptocurrency follows ideology over borders
The Daily Stormer website promotes the purity of white race and posts hateful, conspiratorial screeds about Blacks and Jews. It has also inspired at least three racially motivated killings. Andrew Anglin, its founder, has been...