Month: April 2021
Oracle’s Java API Case
Android is now used in an estimated 70% of global smartphones, and damages could have run into the billions and Oracle, another tech titan, had sued Google in 2010 for copyright infringement over what it said was copied computer code which has ended in the US Supreme Court and the was At issue was whether
Have I Been Pwned Online
Facebook has requested users input their phone numbers since 2011, citing security reasons and Details of more than 530 million people were leaked in a database online, largely consisting of mobile numbers. It has also been suggested that Facebook’s own chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, had his mobile number leaked in the database. The data breach
5G Witness
5G will bring radical changes in how we live, with far-reaching implications for privacy and surveillance. evidence will increasingly look like as we move towards the world of 5G, where smart homes and cities become the norm . It is just the beginning and 5G networks have already paved waved for the authorities to access
Green Economy
The African continent already has the elements which can help in achieving the Green Economy Getting greener will require a lot more of everything from solar panels to wind turbines to electric vehicles to large-scale batteries to hand-held devices. This, in turn, will drive demand for various minerals and metals, both commonly well-known and not-so-familiar,
Crippling Debt Keeps Developing Countries
The low- and middle-income economies will owe more than $1 trillion in debt service payments this year. It reports 72 countries, classified as vulnerable, are responsible for more than half that accumulated debt according to the United Nations report. A warning that developing countries will have difficulty recovering from the devastating impact of the COVID-19
Digital Photos Has More Than You can Bargain For
There’s a great deal more hidden inside the modern digital image. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Hidden information inside digital photos can reveal much more than photographers and their subjects bargain for. John McAfee, founder of the eponymous antivirus software was tracked down in 2012 and yet without them realising, location
leaf sheep-Little Great Slugs
They’re delicate creatures and their bodies are like shell-less snails and don’t hide or retract when they feel your presence . have a routine life, circling the leaf of an algae and grazing about in their own little world. The invertebrate which lives in marine water has black beady eyes situated close together, rhinophores with
Stromatolites – Three Billion Year Old
Stromatolites are living fossils and the oldest living lifeforms on our planet. stromatolites are stony structures built by colonies of microscopic photosynthesizing organisms called cyanobacteria. As sediment layered in shallow water, bacteria grew over it, binding the sedimentary particles and building layer upon millimetre layer until the layers became mounds. Using the sun to harness
Walking Fish
Axolotls have been used traditionally throughout Mexico as a remedy for conditions associated with things like pregnancy, frailty and respiratory illness. Frankie is an ambystoma mexicanum, one of the 17 species of axolotl in Mexico. Some species transform themselves into earth-walking salamanders by losing their tadpole-like tails and gills from their heads. However, this too
Immunity Passport
As governments start to bring infection rates under control or with the development of a vaccine, it’s a waiting game that many airlines, tour operators and hotels aren’t willing to play. The global economy has been severely disrupted by Covid-19, with the virus wreaking particular devastation on the travel industry. It is designed to help