Science & Technologies

Nobel season opens with Medicine Prize

The announcement of the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday opens an unusual 2019 Nobel season in which two literature laureates…

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After Facebook, Telegram secretly plans ‘Gram’ cryptocurrency

Working in secrecy for a year, the Telegram messaging service has a plan: to beat Facebook in the race to…

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Ex-Google engineer charged in Uber self-driving theft case

A former Google engineer was charged last month with stealing self-driving car technology from the company shortly before he joined…

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Could cryptocurrency dethrone the dollar?

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has suggested that a virtual currency, modelled on Facebook’s Libra, could one day replace the…

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Mystery surrounds Iran’s satellite launch

A rocket at an Iranian space centre that was to conduct a satellite launch criticised by the US apparently exploded…

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Facebook tightens rules for US political advertisers ahead of the 2020 election

Facebook Inc is tightening its political ad rules in the United States, it said on Wednesday, requiring new disclosures for…

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Facebook shuts dozens of Myanmar social media accounts over ‘inauthentic behaviour’

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had shut 216 social media pages, groups and accounts in Myanmar, some tied to…

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US energy secretary falls for Instagram hoax

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who oversees the country’s nuclear arsenal, has fallen for an Instagram hoax. He reposted a…

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India’s Moon probe enters lunar orbit

India’s Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to…

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Huawei dismisses new suspension of ‘unjust’ US ban

Huawei on Tuesday dismissed Washington’s three-month delay to a ban on US firms selling to the Chinese tech giant and said the…

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