Wikipedia ‘doing very well financially’: co-founder
Wikipedia had ?never been really good? at attracting major donors, with most of its money coming from people each giving around 15 euros ($16.80) in endowment money, he said. ?We see a rise of people using Wikipedia in ways that don?t involve websites,? he said. We haven?t seen any impact yet but we worry, we think we should raise ...
Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ engaged in Florida fatal crash: report
Preliminary data showed the Tesla driver engaged ?Autopilot? about 10 second before the crash and that the device was active at the time the vehicle was struck by a truck-tractor semitrailer, the National Transportation Safety Board said. ?From less than eight seconds before the crash to the time of impact, the vehicle did not detect the driver?s hands on ...
WhatsApp ‘will never be secure’: Russian rival
Pavel Durov, a maverick programmer who created Telegram to offer securely encrypted communications, late Wednesday posted a blog titled ?Why WhatsApp will never be secure.? Telegram has repeatedly come under fire from authorities in Russia over its strong encryption and it is officially blocked in the country. ?WhatsApp has a consistent history ? from zero encryption at its inception to ...
Chinese probe reveals secrets of Moon’s dark side
In January, the Chinese spacecraft Chang?e-4 ? named after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology ? became the first ever craft to touch down on the far side of the lunar surface. The United States, Russia and China have all landed probes on the near side of the Moon, though neither NASA?s Apollo missions nor the Soviet Union?s Luna ...
LED light can damage eyes, health authority warns
New findings confirm earlier concerns that ?exposure to an intense and powerful [LED] light is ?photo-toxic? and can lead to irreversible loss of retinal cells and diminished sharpness of vision,? the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) warned in a statement. The report distinguished between acute exposure of high-intensity LED light, and ?chronic exposure? ...
Tech giants vow to double number of women managers by 2022
Alibaba, BNP Paribas, Booking.com, IBM, L?Oreal and Uber were some of the high-profile companies to sign a pledge at the second ?Tech for good? summit taking place in Paris.
China blocks all language editions of Wikipedia
?At the end of the day, the content that really matters is Chinese-language content,? said Charlie Smith, the pseudonym of one of the co-founders of Greatfire.org, which tracks online censorship in China. ?It symbolises the fear that the Chinese authorities have of the truth.? Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation that hosts Wikipedia, did not immediately respond to AFP?s request for ...
Facebook to curb livestreaming amid pressure over Christchurch massacre
?Following the horrific recent terrorist attacks in New Zealand, we?ve been reviewing what more we can do to limit our services from being used to cause harm or spread hate,? Facebook vice-president of integrity Guy Rosen said in a statement. ?This is not just about regulation, but bringing companies to the table and saying they have a role too.? The ...
Japan tests next-generation Shinkansen bullet train
The train, code-named ALFA-X, will eventually hit 360 kilometres per hour when it begins to take passengers in about a decade, according to East Japan Railway. Production of the 10-car train with a long nose-shaped head finished in early May at a cost of 10 billion yen ($91 million). Thursday’s trial run between Sendai and Morioka, two cities in northern Japan, was ...
Dirty data: Firms count environmental costs of digital planet
PARIS (AFP) - Technology is often touted as a solution to the world?s environmental challenges, but it is also part of the problem: industry executives are facing rising pressure to clean up their energy and resource-intensive business. "Under the current global energy mix, the share of greenhouse gas emissions from information and communication technologies will rise from 2.5 percent ...
Smokers have higher risk for multiple strokes
(Reuters Health) - Smokers who have a stroke are much more likely to have another one if they don?t quit or at least cut back, a Chinese study suggests. As expected, smokers had a higher risk of a second stroke than people who never smoked at all, even if they managed to quit after their first stroke. However, smokers ...
Italy's watchdog investigates Google for alleged antitrust abuse
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy?s competition watchdog said on Friday it had opened an investigation into alleged abuse of a dominant market position by Google in the smart device sector. The watchdog said in a statement Google had allegedly refused to integrate the app ?Enel X Recharge?, developed by utility Enel, in its Android Auto app. Google, through its Android ...
Freelancers upset over PayPal refusal to operate in Pakistan
KARACHI: Pakistan?s freelancer community, which is said to be the fourth largest in the world, has expressed disappointment over reports of PayPal not extending its services to the country. ?PayPal did not decline because it has issues operating in Pakistan, [but] their internal working is such that they are not ready to introduce services in Pakistan,? Information Technology Secretary ...
Govt ponders over electric cars to fight pollution
Later, Mr Aslam told a press conference that the government planned to introduce electric cars in the country by 2030 and that the move would have far-reaching impact on the country?s environment. ?Most countries are opting for electric cars across the world and Pakistan is far behind in it and once introduced in the country, electric vehicles will help ...
China Sends New BeiDou Navigation Satellite Into Space - Reports
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 18th May, 2019) has successfully launched a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space the Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province on Friday, local reported. Launched at 11:48 p.m. local time (15:48 GMT) on a Long March-3C carrier rocket, it is the 45th satellite ...
China Sends New BeiDou Navigation Satellite Into Space - Reports
Launched at 11:48 p.m. local time (15:48 GMT) on a Long March-3C carrier rocket, it is the 45th satellite of the BDS satellite and the fourth BDS-2 backup satellite, according to the Xinhua agency.
China Launches New BeiDou Navigation Satellite
The BDS-2 system has provided stable and reliable service since it went into operation, and its positioning accuracy has improved 10 meters to six meters.
Facebook breakup could boost China rivals: Sandberg
Sandberg said the social network used by more than two billion people was working to address concerns about election security, online violence promotion and data protection, but that a breakup might only serve to help competitors from China.
Facebook Breakup Could Boost China Rivals: Sandberg
"You could break us up, you could break other tech companies up, but you actually don't address the underlying issues people are concerned about," Sandberg said in the interview. Sandberg said the social network used by more than two people was working to address concerns about security, online violence promotion and data protection, but that a breakup ...
Chaudhry Fawad Hussain For Promoting Pak-Japan Cooperation In S&T
In a meeting with Ambassador of to Kuninori Matsuda at the ministry, the minister said that had a standing in the in terms of technological advancement and development. He said that had always highly valued its bilateral relations with and would like to invest in the field of science and . On the ambition of ...
