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Twitter Blue subscribers getting edit feature

Editorial Bureau October 4, 2022

Twitter on Monday said a feature to edit tweets is being rolled out to those subscribing to its Blue service in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The long-awaited editing tool test “went well,” so it is being made more widely available, the San Francisco based tech firm said in a

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Tesla robot walks, waves, but doesn’t show off complex tasks

Editorial Bureau October 1, 2022

An early prototype of Tesla Inc.’s proposed Optimus humanoid robot slowly and awkwardly walked onto a stage, turned, and waved to a cheering crowd at the company’s artificial intelligence event Friday. But the basic tasks by the robot with exposed wires and electronics — as well as a later, next generation version that had to […]

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Japan to pay up to $320M for US company’s chip production

Editorial Bureau September 30, 2022

Japan is providing a major U.S. chipmaker a subsidy of up to 46.6 billion yen ($322 million) to support its plan to produce advanced memory chips at a Hiroshima factory, the Japanese trade minister said Friday. The announcement to subsidize Micron Technology comes on the heels of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit in Japan […]

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Rohingya seek reparations from Facebook for role in massacre

Editorial Bureau September 29, 2022

With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that’s been his home since 2017, Maung Sawyeddollah, 21, describes what happened when violent hate speech and disinformation targeting the Rohingya minority in Myanmar began to spread on Facebook. “We were good with most of the people there. But […]

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In court brief, Musk says the SEC is unlawfully muzzling him

Editorial Bureau September 28, 2022

U.S. Securities regulators are unlawfully muzzling Tesla CEO Elon Musk, violating his free speech rights by continually trying to enforce a 2018 securities fraud settlement, Musk’s lawyer contends in a court brief. The document, filed late Tuesday with the federal appeals court in Manhattan, was written to support Musk’s appeal of a lower court’s April […]

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Cyber warfare rife in Ukraine, but impact stays in shadows

Editorial Bureau September 28, 2022

Hackings, network sabotage and other cyber warfare campaigns are being intensely deployed by both sides as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, though the covert operations have not proved decisive on the battlefield — at least so far. Western allies initially feared a tsunami of cyberattacks against Ukraine’s military command and critical

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Australian police probe purported hacker’s ransom demand

Editorial Bureau September 27, 2022

Australian police were investigating a purported hacker’s release of the stolen personal data of 10,000 customers of the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier and demand for a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday. The Australian government has blamed lax cybersecurity at Optus for the unprecedented breach last week of the

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NASA strikes asteroid in key test of planetary defence

Editorial Bureau September 27, 2022

NASA’s DART spaceship on Monday (Sep 26) struck the asteroid Dimorphos in a historic test of humanity’s ability to prevent a cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. Impact occurred at 7.14 pm EDT, 10 months after the Double Asteroid Redirection Test probe blasted off from California to carry out its first-of-a-kind experiment. “We’re embarking

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NASA gears up to deflect asteroid, in key test of planetary defense

Editorial Bureau September 26, 2022

Bet the dinosaurs wish they’d thought of this. NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship […]

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Amazon to hold holiday shopping event in October

Editorial Bureau September 26, 2022

Amazon said Monday that next month it will hold a second Prime Day-like shopping event, making it the latest major retailer to offer holiday deals earlier this year to entice cautious consumers struggling with tighter budgets. During the Oct. 11-12 event, Amazon Prime members will get early access to discounted items. The “Prime Early Access […]