Boeing is facing a difficult time as several countries, including China and the U.S., have grounded their 737 Max 8 model after two planes crashed in less than six months. The first plane crashed in late October in Indonesia and was operated by Lion Air. The accident killed 189 people. The second crash took place ...
With Google rumored to be secretly continuing with its censored search engine project for China, Dragonfly, many are worried about the future of the Internet. Brandon Downey, a former security team member at Google and the author of An Old Approach to China, strongly believes that the company should not bow before the Chinese regime ...
When Tim Berners-Lee created the HTTP protocol to help CERN scientists across the world share information and cooperate with one another, he laid the foundations of the Internet we know today. Decades after its invention, it is now an integral part of human society. However, Francois Fluckiger, the man who assumed charge of the web ...
A security research report has revealed that Chinese hacking groups targeted a minimum of 27 American universities, looking for U.S. military secrets. The report is authored by iDefense, the security research wing of Accenture. Stealing American secrets by hacking The hackers are said to use spear phishing to access files, meaning that they appear as ...
In a report that focused on social media disinformation, UK lawmakers charged Facebook with violating competition and data privacy laws. It also accused CEO Mark Zuckerberg of disrespecting the parliament by choosing not to appear before it. Facebook violating the privacy of UK citizens The UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Committee reviewed a set ...
Apple is reportedly preparing to launch a paid subscription news service that has some major news publishers worried. The company is asking for a 50 percent share of the subscription cost, a demand that many publishers feel is unfair. Apple’s new news service Apple’s service comes at a time when the company is dealing with ...
China’s artificial intelligence industry has reportedly created a robot wife thanks to support from the Chinese Community Party (CCP). While some say that the AI wife might provide much-needed companionship to the excess male population of the country, there are those who see the development as a moral decline in Chinese society. AI wife The ...
An international team of researchers out of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, has demonstrated a new approach for converting ordinary laser light into genuine quantum light. Their approach uses nanometer-thick films made of gallium arsenide, which is a semiconductor material widely used in solar cells. They sandwich the thin films between two mirrors to manipulate ...
When news of Tencent’s US$150 million investment in Reddit spread over the Internet, users of the website were furious. They were afraid that the Chinese company would bring in a new set of censorship policies on their beloved platform on behest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Interestingly, Reddit itself is banned in China. Chinese ...
Head of the State Intelligence Committee Senator Richard M. Burr warned American businesses that using Chinese technology to build next-generation 5G networks is fraught with security threats. Using Huawei equipment in government departments was banned by the Trump administration last year. China and 5G The senator argued that Chinese investments in 5G were aimed at ...
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