BLED, Slovenia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Slovenia on Thursday to make the case for high-speed wireless networks that bar Chinese companies like Huawei. On the second leg of a four-nation tour of central and eastern Europe, Pompeo met with Slovenian officials in the..
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SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (AP):- Android phones will be used to sense earthquakes around the world and may one day be able to provide global warnings, with the first mass alert system unveiled Tuesday in California, Google announced. Google, which helped develop Android, worked with California and..
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MYAGDI: Experts have drawn the government’s attention noting the concerned authorities did not show proper concern for the management of uranium deposits which have been discovered in different regions including trans-Himalayan Mustang and Chure. At a virtual interaction program ‘Nuclear..
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BEIJING: Chinese tech giant Huawei is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions and will be forced to stop production of its own most advanced chips, a company executive says, in a sign of growing damage to Huawei’s business from American pressure. Huawei..
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KATHMANDU: The Online Television Journalists' Association has urged the YouTubers and online television workers to strictly abide by Journalists' Code of Conduct-2073. The Association made such requests in the wake of the interviews some online television workers took with the proprietor of a..
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WASHINGTON: The U.S. Treasury Department has fined Capital One $80 million for careless network security practices that enabled a hack that accessed the personal information of 106 million of the bank’s credit cardholders. The Comptroller of the Currency said in a consent order Thursday that..
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Facebook has deleted a post by President Donald Trump for violating its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. The post in question featured a link to a Fox News video in which Trump says children are “virtually immune” to the virus. Facebook said Wednesday that the..
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SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA: A former Google engineer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets before joining Uber’s effort to build robotic vehicles for its ride-hailing service. The sentence handed down Tuesday by U.S. District Judge William Alsup..
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WASHINGTON, (AFP):- US President Donald Trump gave popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok six weeks to sell its US operations to an American company, saying Monday it would be "out of business" otherwise, and that the government wanted a financial benefit from the deal. "It's got to be an American..
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By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, NEW YORK (AP):- Microsoft confirmed Sunday it is in talks with Chinese company ByteDance to acquire the U.S. arm of its popular video app TikTok and has discussed with President Donald Trump his concerns about security and censorship surrounding such an acquisition. In a..
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WASHINGTON, (AFP):- President Donald Trump said Friday he will bar fast-growing social media app TikTok from the United States as American authorities have raised concerns the service could be a tool for Chinese intelligence. US officials and lawmakers in recent weeks have voiced fears of the..
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP):- The Australian government said on Friday it plans to give Google and Facebook three months to negotiate with Australian media businesses fair pay for news content. In releasing a draft of a mandatory code of conduct, the government aims to succeed where other countries..
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP):- With eight successful Mars landings, NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover. The spacecraft Perseverance — set for liftoff this week — is NASA’s biggest and brainiest Martian rover yet. It sports the latest landing tech, plus the most cameras and..
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WASHINGTON, (AFP):- A highly anticipated congressional hearing on anti-competitive practices, bringing together the heads of four US technology giants, has been rescheduled for noon (1600 GMT) Wednesday, July 29 (8pm in the UAE), the House Judiciary Committee has announced. The heads of Google,..
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RIO DE JANEIRO, (AFP):- Twitter and Facebook suspended the accounts Friday of 16 allies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after a Supreme Court judge ordered them blocked as part of a probe into an alleged disinformation campaign. Tension has been soaring between the far-right leader and the..
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Jammu city, India: Today is a world full of modern technologies due to great development in the field of science. Scientists are doing lots of hard work to create something new which can be beneficial for the world. After every new research, for the verification of that particular discovery, tests..
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WENCHANG, China, (AFP):- China aims to launch a rover to Mars on Thursday on a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are closest to send their probes, with China's..
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By Jyoti Dhakal, KATHMANDU:- The coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge changes in many industries, and Information Technology (IT) industry is a major sector among them. The weakness the IT sector is facing now is due to the fall in the economy, as a lot of companies are forced to ask..
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GENEVA, (AFP):- Astrophysicists on Monday published the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe, the result of an analysis of more than four million galaxies and ultra-bright, energy-packed quasars. The efforts of hundreds of scientists from around 30 institutions worldwide have yielded a "complete..
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI and VICTORIA MILKO, TOKYO (AP):- The United Arab Emirates says its ‘Amal’ space probe functioning after launch as it heads toward Mars. Omran Sharaf, the project director of Emirates Mars Mission, told journalists just before 3:30 a.m. in Dubai that the probe was sending..
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A near-10% drop in the value of the US dollar since its March high has given rise to two distinct narratives. The first takes a short-term perspective, focusing on how a..
