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China launches second crewed mission to build space station 15 Oct 2021 - 08:18 pm

JIUQUAN, China - China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts, including one woman, to the core module of a future space...

Amazon-owned Twitch says source code exposed in last week's data breach 15 Oct 2021 - 07:21 pm

Amazon.com Inc-owned Twitch said on Friday that last week's data breach at the live streaming e-sports platform contained documents from its source code....

S.Korea targets Apple over new app store regulation 15 Oct 2021 - 12:02 pm

SEOUL: Apple Inc was on a collision course with South Korea on Friday over new requirements that it stop forcing app developers to...

Japanese billionaire Maezawa trains in Russia ahead of space trip 14 Oct 2021 - 08:48 pm

MOSCOW - For Japanese fashion magnate Yusaku Maezawa, training in zero gravity ahead of his planned trip to space later this year was...

Musk tweets he is in talks with airlines to install Starlink broadband 14 Oct 2021 - 07:52 pm

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said in a tweet on Thursday he was in talks with airlines about installing Starlink, a satellite-based broadband service...

Scientists seek public 'detectives' to spot walrus from space 14 Oct 2021 - 02:36 pm

Walruses, the large blubbering mammals that can weigh over 3,300 pounds, are hard to miss on Earth. But now scientists are calling on...

'Profound experience': Star Trek's Shatner becomes world's oldest space traveler 14 Oct 2021 - 12:16 am

VAN HORN, Texas - Having made a career out of playing an explorer of the cosmos, William Shatner - Captain James Kirk of...

Apple likely to slash iPhone 13 production due to chip crunch - Bloomberg News 12 Oct 2021 - 11:47 pm

Apple Inc is expected to cut down production of the iPhone 13 series by as many as 10 million units due to the...

Apple set for first MacBook Pro revamp in five years on Oct. 18 12 Oct 2021 - 11:22 pm

Apple Inc. has set the date for a media event to unveil the first redesign to its MacBook Pro laptop in five years:...

Instagram testing feature to notify users of outage or issue inside app 12 Oct 2021 - 09:25 pm

Facebook Inc's Instagram is testing a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two...

Google Cloud unveils carbon footprint tracker, satellite imagery suite 12 Oct 2021 - 03:27 pm

Alphabet Inc's Google will tell its cloud customers the carbon emissions of their cloud usage and open satellite imagery to them for the...

Amazon to take team-wise approach on remote work policy 11 Oct 2021 - 09:05 pm

Amazon.com Inc will let individual teams decide for how many days corporate employees would be expected to work from office in a week,...

Facebook will try to 'nudge' teens away from harmful content 10 Oct 2021 - 08:13 pm

WASHINGTON: A Facebook Inc executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful...

Solar-powered motorhome glides into Madrid to promote sustainable energy 08 Oct 2021 - 08:27 pm

MADRID: A solar-powered motorhome, shaped like a huge elongated teardrop, silently rolled into Madrid on Friday as part of a month-long journey from...

Apple plan for cars uses iPhone to control A/C, seats, radio 07 Oct 2021 - 02:56 pm

Apple Inc., whose CarPlay interface is used by millions of motorists to control music, get directions and make phone calls, is looking to...

Google says flight search tool can help you fly 'greener' 07 Oct 2021 - 02:56 pm

SILVER SPRING, Md.: Searching for flights on Google just got "greener.” A new search feature rolled out Wednesday tells users which flights have...

Indonesia's race to preserve habitat of Javan gibbon 07 Oct 2021 - 02:44 pm

PETUNGKRIYONO FOREST, Indonesia: Indonesian officials and researchers are working to preserve a small pocket of forest on the heavily populated island of Java...

A new type of black gold in Nigeria: used car tyres 07 Oct 2021 - 11:50 am

Ibadan, Nigeria: In Nigeria, a country heavily reliant on revenues from its oil exports, entrepreneur Ifedolapo Runsewe has identified another type of black...