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By Sabes A federal jury convicted a former University of Kansas professor of hiding his ties to the Chinese government. Feng Tao, also known as Franklin Tao, 50, was convicted on Thursday …
Read MoreBy Elisa BEIJING – Chinese astronauts on Thursday beamed back a science lesson from the country’s under-construction space station. The lecture focused on physics, aiming to illustrate how the weightless …
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By Jack Cell service could soon be out of this world. NASA has awarded Nokia a $14.1 million-dollar contract to bring astronauts the first cellular network on the moon, the …
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By Manskar Google rolled out a new name for its suite of workplace apps Tuesday along with a slate of new features to make collaboration easier. The package of services …
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By Jason Uber on Tuesday said every vehicle on its global ride-hailing platform will be electric by 2040, and it vowed to contribute $800 million through 2025 to help drivers …
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By Joel OTTAWA — For the first time in its 31-year history, the Canadian Space Agency will have a female president. The government announced Thursday that longtime public servant Lisa …
Read More By Joel OTTAWA — For the first time in its 31-year history, the Canadian Space Agency will have a female president. The government announced Thursday that longtime public servant Lisa …
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By Millado Forget steps — Amazon claims it can track your emotions with its new “wearable” artificial intelligence. With Thursday’s announcement of its Halo Band and app, the online megastore …
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By Vega A former Google engineer who stole self-driving car technology for Uber was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison, in what a California judge called the “biggest …
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By Vega Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is turning up the heat on TikTok. The campaign this week ran ads on Facebook claiming that the wildly popular, Chinese-owned social-media app is …
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By Manskar TikTok says it took down some 29,000 coronavirus videos in Europe from January to June as it worked to control bogus information about the pandemic. The affected videos …
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By Aitken Scammers and thieves supposedly made off with around $24 million in Bitcoin in the first six months of 2020, according to reports. Twitter bot Whale Alert, which tracks …
Read More By Manskar Google recently ditched an effort to launch cloud computing services in China and other countries amid concerns about growing political tensions, according to a report. The tech behemoth …
Read More By Vega A new security feature in iOS 14 has caught TikTok spying on millions of its users. The popular social media platform was caught red-handed copying text from a …
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By Elina Organizers said Friday they were canceling the 2020 New York auto show that had previously been pushed back until August, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the venue’s …
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By Carbon Earth’s magnetic field is gradually weakening in an area that stretches from Africa to South America and scientists who are trying to understand why. This weakening is also …
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By Vega In rolling out their coronavirus tracking system to developers, Apple and Google have confirmed that it will ban location tracking by other official apps. But the decision, which …
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By Allisha HANGZHOU, China – A Chinese startup that develops augmented-reality products for use in manufacturing and gaming has found a promising growth area in the midst of a global …
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By Katie TOKYO – Coronavirus patients with light symptoms arriving to stay at several Tokyo hotels are likely to get a lift from a pleasant surprise – a robot greeter …
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By Vega Shares of Zoom dropped as much as 7 percent Wednesday after Google announced that it will soon make its Meet video-conferencing service for businesses free for all users. …
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