Parler, a social media website and app popular among the American far-right, has been back online after being offline for a short while with a Russian technology company’s help. Parler recently disappeared after the attack on the US parliament building by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, as web […]
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Twitter is Scrapping 70,000 QAnon Accounts
Twitter has permanently suspended 70,000 accounts affiliated with QAnon, a controversial pro-Trump movement, as of Friday. By scrapping the accounts, Twitter wants to prevent them from being used to incite violence, as happened last week in the Capitol’s storming in Washington. On Friday, Twitter also permanently banned US President […]
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Cyberattack on the US Discovered by Hacked Cybersecurity Company
The major cyber attack on the US government’s computer networks was discovered when cybersecurity company FireEye started investigating a hacking attack on its own network. FireEye found a problem with the software of supplier SolarWinds, of which the American government is also a customer. Russian hackers are said to […]
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SpaceX Successfully Launches Four Astronauts
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, successfully launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on the night from Sunday to Monday at the scheduled time (7:27 p.m. local time). Onboard are three Americans and a Japanese, who will be living on the ISS for the next […]
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Nikkei Slightly Higher Due to US Stimulus Hope
The Japanese stock market ended slightly higher on Wednesday. The hope that an agreement could still be reached in Washington on a new support package for the US economy caused optimism among investors. The other major stock exchanges in the Asian region also showed gains predominantly. The Nikkei in […]
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Google Will Recognize Humming Songs
Google comes with a new Shazam-like feature that lets you hum, whistle or sings a song. The search engine will then look up the number for you. It is an extension of existing systems that try to search for songs based on, for example, a sound patch. The feature […]
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Co-Founder OnePlus Leaves the Company
Carl Pei, one of the two founders of OnePlus, has left the company. He is said to have plans to start his own company. Pei founded OnePlus together with CEO Pete Lau in 2013 as a subsidiary of Oppo. The company focuses on devices that are close to high-end […]
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Microsoft: Russia is Behind Most Cyberattacks by Countries
Most cyber-attacks on Microsoft customers ordered by a country are the work of Russia, Microsoft reports based on its own data. The software company sent 13,000 alerts to customers about hacking attempts by countries in the last 2 years. Of the incidents between July 2019 and June 2020, 52 […]
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Amazon Recruits 100,000 People in North America
The American online store giant Amazon is expanding significantly in the United States and Canada. 100,000 people will be hired, both part-time and full-time, the e-commerce giant announced Monday. Amazon plans to open 100 new business buildings in logistics centres, sorting centres and other sites by this month. The […]
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Pentagon Still Wants to Work With Microsoft for A Billion-Dollar Contract
The United States Department of Defense says it has re-evaluated the JEDI cloud contract. In doing so, it comes back to Microsoft, much to Amazon’s dismay. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract (JEDI) is to modernize the Pentagon in terms of technology thoroughly. But it is also a […]