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Space Orbiter is expected to provide unprecedented insights into the Sun’s atmosphere, its winds and its magnetic fields. — AFP

February 10, 2020

Solar Orbiter launches on mission to reveal Sun's secrets

MIAMI, Florida — The US-European Solar Orbiter probe launched on Sunday night from Florida on a voyage to deepen our understanding of the Sun and how it shapes the space weather that impacts technology back on Earth.The mission, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA, successfully blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral at 11:03 p.m. (0403 GMT Monday) and could last up to ...

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February 6, 2020

Google Maps marks 15-year milestone with new features

SAN FRANCISCO — Google Maps marked 15 years on the road Thursday with the rollout of new features for the popular mobile app which has helped move navigation into the digital age.The tech giant is marking the occasion with a new look and product updates, vice president of product Dane Glasgow said in a blog post.Google has dominated the market for navigation apps in recent years but the latest updates ...

Activists say a big Facebook legal settlement could be a watershed moment on

February 2, 2020

Facebook's settlement puts spotlight on 'biometric privacy'

WASHINGTON — Facebook's massive settlement in a class action case over violating a state law on how it uses facial recognition is being hailed as a watershed moment for "biometric privacy."The leading social network said on Wednesday it agreed to the $550 million payout after failing to win dismissal of the case alleging it illegally collected biometric information for "face tagging" in violation of a 2008 Illinois privacy law.The settlement ...

The feature will lift a veil on some aspects of Facebook's practices that including collecting data from third-party apps, Facebook logins,

January 28, 2020

Facebook tool to clear third-party data rolls out globally

WASHINGTON — Facebook said on Tuesday a new tool allowing users of the social network to view and delete data it collects from third parties is rolling out to the estimated two billion members of the leading social network worldwide.The new feature, part of a stepped-up effort to improve privacy practices, allows users to see and clear "off Facebook activity" used for targeted advertising.Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the ...

Britain and the EU approved a limited 5G role for Chinese telecoms giant Huawei despite US strong opposition. — AFP

January 28, 2020

UK approves restricted 5G role for China's Huawei

LONDON — Britain on Tuesday green-lighted a limited role for Chinese telecoms giant Huawei in the country's 5G network, insisting that "high risk vendors" would be excluded from "sensitive" core infrastructure.London's decision — following a meeting of the National Security Council chaired by Prime Minister Boris Johnson — came shortly after Brussels said it would allow Huawei a limited 5G role in the European Union."We want world-class connectivity as soon ...

Sundar Pichai

January 20, 2020

Google chief urges 'proportionate' AI regulation

BRUSSELS — As the EU puts the digital revolution at the heart of policy-making it should take a "proportional approach" to regulating artificial intelligence, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google said on Monday.Pichai, also boss of Google's parent company Alphabet, argued before an audience at a Brussels think tank, Bruegel, that companies like his own — an internet behemoth valued at $1 trillion — need to be given a say ...

January 16, 2020

YouTube steers viewers to climate denial videos: Nonprofit

SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube has driven millions of viewers to climate denial videos, a US activist group said Thursday as it called for stopping "free promotion of misinformation" at the platform.New York-based Avaaz said it scrutinized results of Google-owned YouTube searches using the terms "global warming," "climate change," and "climate manipulation" to see what was offered by an "up next" feature and as suggestions.In response to the report, YouTube said ...

Mojo Vision, a California startup, says its smart contact lens is part of a move to

January 16, 2020

'Invisible computing' startup unveils smart contact lens

WASHINGTON — A startup focused on "invisible computing" Thursday unveiled a smart contact lens which delivers an augmented reality display in a user's field of vision.The Mojo Vision contact lens offers a display with information and notifications, and allows the user to interact by focusing on certain points.The rigid contact lens, which the company has been developing in stealth mode for some 10 years, may also be used to help ...

This handout image released on Monday courtesy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows an artists' illustration of the planet TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The planet is part of the planetary system TOI 700, 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. NASA announced that TESS had discovered an Earth-size planet in its stars habitable zone. — AFP

January 7, 2020

NASA planet hunter finds Earth-sized world in 'Goldilocks zone'

WASHINGTON — NASA's planet hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water.Another first for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is its discovery of a world orbiting two stars, evoking the planet Tatooine from Star Wars but unlikely to be hospitable to life as we know it.The potentially habitable planet, named "TOI 700 d," is relatively ...

Stimulated Raman histologic images of diffuse astrocytoma (left) and meningioma (right). — Courtesy photo

January 6, 2020

AI matches human brain cancer diagnosis: Study

PARIS — An AI computer model can diagnose and identify 10 of the most common types of brain cancer with the same accuracy as human doctors, researchers said Monday.More than 15 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year, and 80 percent of those will undergo surgery.In the United States alone more than one million cancer samples are biopsied annually, and each one must be analyzed and diagnosed by ...

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