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Category: Technology

  • Facebook’s woes continue

    Facebook’s woes continue

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    Facebook faces another security breach. Although the issue is internal, the issue is liable to damage Facebook’s already tarnished public reputation. Facebook, a social media and social networking site, was launched by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 along with some of his Harvard roommates. The site was…

  • Global Internet Outage

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    Facebook, its family of apps and Google services have been affected by global outage triggering disruption to the online business. Outage duration is the period of time that a system fails to provide or perform its primary function. The system could fail due to an unplanned event or because of routine maintenance. Outages caused by…

  • Berners-Lee urges data controls

    Berners-Lee urges data controls

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    World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Monday slammed the increasing commodification of personal information and appealed for internet users to strive to maintain “complete control” of their data. The Internet (contraction of interconnected network) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet ….

  • Big tech to break up : Elisabeth Warren

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    A prominent Democrat senator, Elizabeth Warren has promised that she would break up the country’s biggest technology companies if she is elected president in 2020. The Big Four technology companies are Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple (GAFA). The term refers to…

  • App to monitor freshwater ecosystem

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    Google, UN Environment & European Commission’s Joint Research Centre have unveiled a web-based platform to monitor global freshwater ecosystem. Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth’s aquatic ecosystems. They can be contrasted with marine ecosystems, which have a larger salt content…

  • Zuckerberg changes Facebook?

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    Mark Zuckerberg has pinned the future of Facebook on a shift from its historic mission to make the world more “open and connected”, saying that “privacy-focused” communications were becoming more important than open platforms. Facebook, a social media and social networking site, was launched by Mark….

  • Mozilla fears DarkMatter misuse

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    Mozilla is considering the blocking of cybersecurity company DarkMatter over allegations of a cyber-espionage program. Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software ….

  • One Web in midst of new space race

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    A rocket provided by Arianespace SA lifted off and thrust six satellites made by OneWeb Systems Inc. into orbit. The launch took place at Kourou, on the coast of French Guiana on Wednesday, February 27, 2019. OneWeb, formerly known as WorldVu Satellites, is a global communications company….

  • Flying car – a reality?

    Flying car – a reality?

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    The Minister of Entrepreneur Development Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof of Malaysia is set to unveil the prototype of its first flying car prototype to the public this year. The minister added that local companies would develop this prototype. A flying car is a type of personal air vehicle or roadable aircraft that provides door-to-door …..

  • Israel’s Probe to reach the Moon

    Israel’s Probe to reach the Moon

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    SpaceIL’s project known as Beresheet will attempt a moon landing mission in April. The small Israeli spacecraft was part of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch last night. Beresheet, designed by SpaceIL and built by Israel Aerospace Industries for the since-cancelled Google Lunar X-prize competition, is the first Israeli spacecraft designed to visit the moon…