A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, officials said on Friday. REUTERS: A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential […]
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WASHINGTON: A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, officials said on Friday (Jul 31). A 19-year-old British man and a 22-year-old man in Orlando, Florida were also charged under US […]
Silicon Valley’s value is to be celebrated, but we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to its problems, says an observer. MEDFORD, Massachusetts: Big tech is back in the spotlight. The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google testified before US Congress on Jul 29 to defend their market dominance […]
German manufacturer OHB-System has signed a €445m (£400m) contract to begin construction of a satellite network to monitor carbon dioxide. The CO2M constellation will consist in the first instance of two spacecraft, but there is an option for a third. The platforms will track the greenhouse gas across the globe, […]
Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a “world-leading” initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the digital giants. SYDNEY: Australia unveiled a draft law Friday (Jul 31) to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for […]
A quarter of native mammals now at risk of extinction in the UK. This is according to the first Red List of UK mammals – a comprehensive review of the status of species, including wildcats, red squirrels and hedgehogs. The report’s authors are calling for urgent action to prevent their […]
The US space agency’s Perseverance robot has left Earth on a mission to try to detect life on Mars. Artwork: Did Mars ever host life? The evidence could be held in the planet’s rocks The one-tonne, six-wheeled rover was launched out of Florida by an Atlas rocket on a […]
The killer of one of Uganda’s best known mountain gorillas, Rafiki, has been jailed for 11 years. Felix Byamukama pleaded guilty to illegally entering a protected area and killing a gorilla. Byamukama had said the gorilla attacked him and he killed Rafiki in self defence, according to the Uganda Wildlife […]
It’s often said that about half of all missions to Mars have failed. But getting a more precise figure for successful and unsuccessful Mars shots is more complicated than it sounds. If it was all just down to basic maths, working out the percentages of successful and unsuccessful Mars missions […]
WASHINGTON: Google and Facebook took the sharpest jabs for alleged abuse of their market power from Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday (Jul 29), in a much-anticipated congressional hearing with four of America’s most prominent tech CEOs in the hot seat. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai and […]