China Conducts Country's 1st Successful Space Launch From Floating Platform - Reports
BEIJING (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 05th June, 2019) carried out on Wednesday morning its first ever successful launch of the Chang Zheng 11 carrier rocket a floating launch platform, local reported.
A day not to 'like' for Facebook, hit by outage, criminal probe
Facebook grappled with challenges on two fronts Wednesday, an hours-long outage and intensified scrutiny from investigators reportedly probing struck by the world's largest social network. ?And many other sites and apps are having issues too.? A Downdetector map late Wednesday showed Facebook service troubles persisting in parts of Australia, Asia, Europe, South America and North America. ?We're focused ...
Kremlin Declines To Comment On Security Service's Request To Access Yandex User Files
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) A Kremlin spokesman declined on Tuesday to comment on reports that said the national security service, the FSB, wanted access to user data stored in Yandex mail and its cloud service. A law allows the security agency to ask any service on the 's list of ...
May To Confront Trump Over Huawei's Role In UK 5G Network - Reports
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) US President Donald Trump is on a collision course with UK Prime Minister Theresa May over Huawei's role in the UK 5G Internet network, local media said Tuesday. "This prime minister... hasn't got to make any apologies for a quite tough stance which she has taken where she sees our ...
First Russian Radar Satellite Obzor-R To Be Launched To Orbit In 2020 - Roscosmos
KHIMKI (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) The first radar satellite, Obzor-R, will be launched to orbit in , the head of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Tuesday.
Apple leaves iTunes behind as it harmonizes software
Apple chief Tim Cook and other executives focused on privacy features as they unveiled software improvements for iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Mac computers at the technology giant's annual gathering of developers in Silicon Valley. "The future of iTunes is not one app, it's three," said Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi. Apple has ...
Top Australian University Reports Vast, 'sophisticated' Hack
Sydney, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 4th Jun, 2019 ):A top Australian university with close ties to the country's government and security services on Tuesday said it had been the victim of a vast hack by a "sophisticated operator" who gained access to 19 years of sensitive data. In a message to staff and students, the Australian National ...
Facebook keeps three-yearly 'say on pay' vote, amid outside investor doubts
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc investors will only get to vote on the pay of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg every three years, rather than annually as most outside shareholders would prefer, according to a vote tally released by the world?s largest social media company late on Monday, following its annual meeting last week. Most publicly traded U.S. companies ...
Apple previews new software as it diversifies beyond iPhones
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Apple will preview upcoming changes to its phone and computer software Monday as it diversifies to offset eroding sales of its bedrock product, the iPhone. The Monday event is expected to usher out the iTunes software that Apple rolled out 16 years ago to sell and manage digital music for the iPod, which paved the ...
China to grant 5G commercial-use licenses
CHINA (Reuters) - China will soon grant 5G licenses for commercial use, the country?s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Monday. As always, China welcomes domestic and foreign enterprises to actively participate in the country?s 5G network building, as well as application and promotion, to jointly share the 5G development results of China, said the ministry. ...
Russian Scientists To Simulate Lunar Base Conditions In Antarctic - Research Institute
For example, we have now resumed our participation in the Antarctic expedition program, bearing in mind the interest in working out the requirements for future crews of lunar bases," he said. In , Sergei Krikalev, the executive director of manned spaceflights at State Space Agency Roscosmos, said that planned to start building a lunar base for cosmonauts ...
FIA Crackdown In Karachi & Gujranwala-More Arrest On Illegal Mobile Registration
Lahore (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 03rd June, 2019) FIA Cybercrime circle continues its crackdown arresting the mafia groups in Karachi & Gujranwala involved in illegal activities of steeling passport Identities for mobile registration. It is learnt that PTA has also provided a further list of 1326 people, whom passport data has been used in this immoral and ...
China's Huawei to sell stake in undersea-cable unit
SHANGHAI (AFP) - Huawei will sell its majority share in a submarine cable unit, the stake?s buyer announced Monday, amid a US-led drive to isolate the Chinese telecom giant from global information networks over spying fears. The 51 percent stake in Huawei Marine Networks will be bought by Hengtong Optic-Electric, an optical-cable manufacturer based in eastern China?s Jiangsu province, ...
Dutch scientists create world's smallest autonomous racing drone
Using the new algorithms, the team raced the drone along a 4-gate race track where it flew multiple laps at an average speed of 2 m/s.
US Justice Department prepares Google antitrust probe: sources
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is preparing an investigation of Alphabet Inc?s Google to determine whether the tech giant broke antitrust law in operating its sprawling online businesses, two sources familiar with the matter said. Officials from the Justice Department?s Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission, which both enforce antitrust law, met in recent weeks to give Justice ...
US suspends funding for Iran Twitter account that trolled critics
The Iran Disinformation Project was set up late last year with a stated mission to expose the ?nefarious influence? of the clerical regime in Tehran, including by tackling its ?social media manipulation.? The account, in English, Farsi and occasionally Arabic, is funded by the State Department?s Global Engagement Center, which is in charge of countering foreign propaganda. A State Department ...
Facebook ordered by U.S. judge to turn over data privacy records
In a 57-page decision on Thursday, which followed a one-day trial in March, Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of the Delaware Chancery Court said shareholders demonstrated a ?credible basis? to believe Facebook board members may have committed wrongdoing related to data privacy breaches. ?Evidence presented at trial provides a credible basis to infer the board and Facebook senior executives failed ...
Uber to boot riders from app if they repeatedly misbehave
The company says that starting Wednesday, riders with a rating from drivers that?s significantly below average could lose their ability to ride. But before that happens they?ll get tips on how to improve ratings by being polite, not leaving trash in vehicles and not asking the driver to violate the speed limit.
Pakistan among top countries where Facebook restricted most content
The total content curbed in Pakistan by the platform doubled between July and December 2018, according to Facebook’s latest transparency report released on Friday. As per details, 4,174 items were restricted in Pakistan during the second half of 2018, as compared to 2,203 pieces from the first half of the year. According to the breakdown of the content restricted in Pakistan, Facebook ...
U.S. might blacklist China’s Hikvision over Uighur crackdown: source
Hikvision was named in a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump?s top advisers last month, signed by more than 40 lawmakers, which called for tighter U.S. export controls over China?s treatment of its Uighurs in Xinjiang in western China. The restrictions, which according to the source are among several options being considered by the Trump administration, would severely limit ...
