The FCC voted unanimously on Tuesday on a $1.9 billion program to pull and substitute telecommunications equipment from Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE for national security purposes. Chinese telecom titan Huawei announced later on Wednesday its acute disappointment over the FCC’s decision to remove and alternate its telecommunications equipment in the U.S. Huawei continued […]
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Tech experts in China who find a weakness in computer security would be required to tell the government and couldn’t sell that knowledge under rules further tightening the Communist Party’s control over information. The rules would ban private sector experts who find “zero day,” or previously unknown security weaknesses, and sell the information to police, […]
England’s loss against Italy in the UEFA Euro 2020 final on Sunday night did not only crush the dream of millions who believed the championship was coming home, but it also unleashed a wave of deeply rooted racism that remains embedded in today’s modern world. Social media, including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, were flooded with racial abuse and slurs targeted towards England’s Black football players. As anger boiled […]
Crypto traders are seeking reparation from Binance to enforce regulations and accountability on the crypto exchange platform following Bitcoin’s latest plunge from $64,000 per coin to almost $30,000 per coin by end of May. Since modernity is one of the leading factors of cryptocurrency’s extended influence, traders count on crypto market to safeguard their digital funds as it is decentralized and not tracked by any governmental sector. On […]
Cubans facing the country’s worst economic crisis in decades took to the streets over the weekend. In turn, authorities blocked social media sites in an apparent effort to stop the flow of information into, out of and within the beleaguered nation. Restricting internet access has become a tried-and-true method of stifling dissent by authoritarian regimes […]
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge will not allow new evidence to be admitted in the U.S. extradition case of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes said during a case management hearing on Friday. Huawei’s CFO faces fraud charges over misleading investment bank HSBC about her company subsidiary’s activities in Iran, which the U.S. said violated sanctions. Meng and […]
Moderna has begun human trials for an mRNA vaccine called mRNA-1010, that targets multiple influenza strains, the company announced Wednesday. The American pharmaceutical and biotechnology firm based in Cambridge, aims on the long run for one seasonal shot for flu, COVID-19, respiratory viruses RSV, and HMPV. The flu shot is designed to target four strains of influenza viruses that circulate seasonally each year, just like the current quadrivalent flu vaccines on the market. The four virus […]
With Virgin Galactic making its highest profile test flight to date with boss Richard Branson aboard, it’s only a matter of time before paying customers get their chance and New Mexico realizes a dream that has been decades in the making. Former Gov. Bill Richardson is among those who have been watching the progress of […]
Swiss-based insurance and mortgage comparison company Comparis.ch has fallen victim to ransomware attack on Wednesday and shut down its website on Thursday out of fear of customer data breach. Comparis.ch is a price and product comparison platforms in Switzerland, specializing in products of health insurers prices, insurance companies’ prices, alongside banks and telecom providers. On […]
China on Sunday said it will take “necessary measures” to respond to the U.S. blacklisting of Chinese companies over their alleged role in abuses of Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities. The Commerce Ministry said the U.S. move constituted an “unreasonable suppression of Chinese enterprises and a serious breach of international economic and trade […]