Category Archives: Tech

• Should Big Tech be broken up? 7 June 2019 | Mike Bebernes no comments

  A handful of tech companies that started out as tiny startups have grown into some of the biggest corporations in the world. But have the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon gotten t ...

• Trump administration shuts down NASA’s $10-million carbon monitoring program while CO2 levels soar 14 May 2018 | Jean-Pierre Chigne no comments

  The Trump administration has killed NASA's Carbon Monitoring System, which was responsible for compiling data from satellite and aircraft measurements of worldwide CO2 and methane emissions. ...

• Aung San Suu Kyi denies Rohingya ethnic cleansing allegations 6 April 2017 | Eleanor Ross no comments

  The Nobel Prize winner told the BBC’s Fergal Keane that there were issues in Rakhine State where the Muslim Rohingya live, but said it did not go as far as ethnic cleansing. ...

• Billionaire Elon Musk outlines plans for humans to colonize Mars 28 September 2016 | Irene Klotz no comments

  SpaceX intends to fly to Mars about every 26 months when Earth and Mars are favorably aligned. Musk said he would like to launch the first crew as early as 2024. ...

• Yahoo sells to Verizon in saddest $5 billion deal In tech history 25 July 2016 | Brian Solomon no comments

  Yahoo was once the king of the Internet, a $125 billion behemoth as big in its time as Facebook or Google are today. Now it’s being sold to Verizon for comparative chump change. ...

• Chinese hackers tried to take down Tibetan social networking website 3 January 2016 | Wang Wei no comments

  Tibetan Groups, especially pro-democracy activists, are being repeatedly targeted by persistent Cyber Attacks by Chinese State-sponsored hackers. ...

• India replaces China as next big frontier for US tech companies 27 September 2015 | Vindu Goel no comments

  India already conducts more mobile searches on Google than any country besides the United States. Yet “we are barely scratching the surface of availability of Internet to the masses.” ...

• China deploys new weapon for online censorship in form of “Great Cannon” 11 April 2015 | Andrea Peterson no comments

  The Great Cannon likely could also be used to deliver malicious code to any computer visiting a Web site based in China that does not use encryption. ...

• Thank Snowden: Internet industry now considers intelligence community an adversary, not a partner 13 February 2015 no comments

  The whole issue of increasing encryption by the tech companies has been left off the official schedule of the White House cybersecurity summit. ...

• Apple counts down to launch of smartwatch, bigger iPhone 9 September 2014 | Supantha Mukherjee no comments

  Apple Inc is expected to unveil its first new device in four years, the iWatch, in a gala event on Tuesday that may also mark its long-awaited entry into mobile payments and deliver a larger iPhone. ...