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A milestone for privatisation of space: SpaceX brings astronauts home safely
America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The mission, carried out jointly by NASA and the private company SpaceX, demonstrated that the United States has the capacity once more to send its astronauts to space and bring them back.
3 August 2020, 15:34 PM
Amazon to invest $10 bn in space-based internet system
Amazon says it will invest $10 billion for its planned space-based internet delivery system after winning US regulatory approval to deploy more than 3,000 low-orbit satellites.
3 August 2020, 15:24 PM
Virgin, Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial plane that flies at three times the speed of sound
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic on Monday announced a partnership with engine-maker Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial aeroplane that flies at three times the speed of sound. The aircraft would travel at Mach 3 -- rather than the Mach 2 speed of Concorde, the pioneering jet that operated from 1976 to 2003.
3 August 2020, 15:11 PM
Acquiring TikTok is a gamble Microsoft should take
Microsoft Corp's potential acquisition of short-video app TikTok carries myriad risks, thrusting it into the politically fraught social media business and Sino-U.S. conflict amid increased scrutiny of big-tech companies.
3 August 2020, 15:03 PM
China-backed hackers 'targeted Covid-19 vaccine firm Moderna'
Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc, a U.S.-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, this year in a bid to steal data, according to a U.S. security official tracking Chinese hacking.
1 August 2020, 16:52 PM
Hajj goes virtual for families of lucky pilgrims
In recent years, the hajj has been at the centre of an acceleration in the growth of digital worship, with a slew of religious apps and tablet Korans.
31 July 2020, 19:05 PM
Big Tech hearing takeaway: CEOs couldn't strongly deny foul-play
At Wednesday's hotly-anticipated congressional hearing on Big Tech CEOs, much of what they said was predictable: We're not that big; competition is fierce; consumers love us. What they didn't say might be more interesting. Given the opportunity to dispute that they used their enormous power to outmanoeuvre smaller challengers, the tech titans repeatedly demurred.
30 July 2020, 18:32 PM
“How price, vai?”
Didn’t hear much of that this time. Pre-Eid, amidst the sound of moo and baa and meh, this was a question everyone of the roads would scream out at each other.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Neuralink will stream music directly to the brain, claims Musk
Tech startup Neuralink is working on a brain-computer interface that will allegedly allow wearers to “stream music directly to their brain”.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Instagram bug keeps camera on in iOS 14
iOS 14’s new set of user notifications aggressively report unusual app behaviour. It has unearthed another security flaw.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Halo infinity gameplay: The good, the bad and the rest
After five years of development and weeks of teasers, Microsoft has finally given us a better look at the Halo Infinite campaign.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
DCeased: DC Comics’ gory take on a cyber pandemic
Have you ever stopped to think – what if the coronavirus had spread from one human to another via technology? Sounds like a diabolical train of thought, no? Well, as despondent as it sounds, it did not prevent DC Comics from creating their version of a cyber pandemic.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Legen-Dairy breakthroughs in bovine technology
The simple act of feeding and caring for a cow harks back to a bygone era at the dawn of the agricultural revolution.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Bezos' snack, room ratings and 'the net': Key online moments from tech hearing
The chief executives of the country's largest tech companies - including Zuckerberg, Amazon Inc's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple Inc's Tim Cook - gave virtual testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel.
30 July 2020, 12:43 PM
NASA launches rover to seek signs of past life on Mars
NASA's next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a $2.4 billion mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth's planetary neighbour.
30 July 2020, 12:32 PM
WATCH LIVE: CEOs of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple testify in front of US Congress
The four major tech firms whose chief executives are testifying at a congressional antitrust hearing face a variety of complaints about their dominance in the US and elsewhere. Investigations are being led by antitrust enforcers at the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and by authorities in US states. Watch the session live here:
29 July 2020, 19:58 PM
TikTok faces US national security review
A US government national security review of the social media app TikTok is nearly complete and will deliver a recommendation to the White House this week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.
29 July 2020, 19:35 PM
Study solves mystery origin of Stonehenge's iconic boulders
Stonehenge, a Neolithic wonder in southern England, has vexed historians and archaeologists for centuries with its many mysteries: How was it built? What purpose did it serve? Where did its towering sandstone boulders come from?
29 July 2020, 18:43 PM
Scientists revive 100 million-year-old microbes from deep under seafloor
Scientists have succeeded in reviving microbes retrieved from sediment deep under the seafloor in the heart of the South Pacific that had survived in a dormant state for 101.5 million years in research illustrating the resiliency of life on Earth.
29 July 2020, 18:30 PM
Global air traffic won't return to pre-crisis level before 2024: IATA
Global air traffic will not return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic until at least 2024, the International Air Transport Association said on Tuesday.
28 July 2020, 16:00 PM