Month: June 2021
Water Cloud exoplanet Discovered
TOI-1231 b which is an exoplanet was discovered by a team of scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of New Mexico. It was detected using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and confirmed using the Planet Finder Spectrograph on the Magellan Clay telescope in Chile. The Planet Finder Spectrograph revealed
probe into coronavirus origins -China
While the WHO issued a study in March on COVID-19’s origins and found it is “extremely unlikely” the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, the Biden administration has raised concerns about the methodology and process for the examination, as well as China’s involvement. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that China must
Data Breach
Businesses across various sectors are being targeted by cybercriminals for example JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company, revealed that it had paid the equivalent of $11 million to hackers who broke into its computer system last month. The company ultimately paid the ransom in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to prevent further disruptions of the meat plants,
sex trafficking through Facebook
The internet has become the dominant tool that traffickers use to recruit victims, and they often recruit them on a number of very common social networking websites and Over half of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases last year occurred on Facebook. Instagram and Snapchat were the most frequently cited platforms after Facebook for
Apple New Data Privacy
Apple will bundle a number of new privacy features in iCloud+, its paid cloud hosting service. Mail Privacy Protection in Apple’s email application will block tracking pixels, tiny trackers embedded in email and websites that marketers use to follow people around the web. The mail app will also cloak user IP addresses and other personal
EA Sports Hacked
EA is one of the largest games companies in the world. It counts major series such as Battlefield, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, The Sims, and Titanfall among the titles it develops or publishes – as well as a vast array of annual sports games. The source code for the engine could hold significant value
China Mars Rover Sending Images
The robot, which landed in May, positioned a wireless camera on the ground and then rolled back a short distance to take the snap. China’s Zhurong rover has sent back a batch of new images from Mars. All the images were released by the Chinese space agency in a ceremony to celebrate the success of
Work Remotely till half of 2022- Facebook Employees
big tech firms Apple and Google have recently reversed pandemic working conditions, telling staff to return to the office in the coming months while Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told staff he plans to spend up to half of 2022 working remotely. Facebook’s offices are expected to open to full capacity in October, but employees
Plastics Polluting Oceans 1 min read
Measures to cut plastic pollution have focused on the likes of straws, cotton buds and drink stirrers, which are relatively easy to replace. Plastic from take-out and convenience food is littering rivers and oceans. According to the recent scientific analysis ,global inventories cataloguing more than 12 million pieces of litter found in and around rivers,
G7 to Control Coal Burning to save the Climate
Coal is the world’s dirtiest major fuel and ending its use is seen as a major step by environmentalists .The G7 group will promise to move away from coal plants, unless they have technology to capture carbon emissions and it will require a range of urgent policies, chief among them being phasing out coal burning