Month: May 2022
customer-business chat WhatsApp feature
WhatsApp is launching a new service for businesses to communicate directly with their customers. Cloud-based software that enables apps to communicate with each other, will open up WhatsApp to more businesses and will be free for smaller firms. The messaging system is one of several platforms where Meta has launched more shopping-focused features. Is WhatsApp
Musk denies sexual misconduct allegations
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has denied claims that he groped and exposed himself to an employee at his SpaceX rocket company six years ago. The SpaceX founder suggested the piece was intended to interfere with his stalled $44bn acquisition of Twitter and malign the recent shift in his politics. “Those wild accusations are
US and South Korea military drills
US President Joe Biden and South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol have said they will consider expanded military exercises to deter the nuclear threat from North Korea at a time when there is little hope of real diplomacy on the matter. It has long described joint military exercises as rehearsals for an invasion, although the
Mariupol steel plant under Russia
Russian forces have taken full control of the steel plant in Mariupol that was the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in the city. The seizure marks the end of a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of Mariupol to ruins and left more than 20,000 people feared dead. The Donbas is now President Vladimir Putin’s
Monkeypox Cases
World Health Organisation bosses will hold an emergency monkeypox meeting amid growing fears about the international outbreak as Germany and Belgium become the latest nations to declare cases. That is why outbreaks reported across Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States have cased alarm among public health experts. Monkeypox is likely to be sexually transmissible,
Costa Rica hacking
The president of Costa Rica says his country is “at war”, as cyber-criminals cause major disruption to IT systems of numerous government ministries. The Conti ransomware cartel, which is thought to be run from Russia, has upped its ransom demand to $20m. On Wednesday, the Costa Rican Treasury told civil servants that the hack had
Use of Laser Weapons on Ukraine
Lasers work by sending out a beam of infrared light that heats up its target until it combusts. Russia claims to have used laser weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, although the US says it has seen no evidence of this and Ukraine has derided it as propaganda. Little is known about the Zadira laser
earthquakes detection using sub sea internet cables
Internet cables that crisscross the sea-floor could be use to detect earthquakes and tsunamis or monitor how climate change alters ocean currents. Cable-based sensors could identify the “epicentral area” of an earthquake in the same way as land-based seismometers, the researchers suggest, Because installing permanent sensors to monitor the ocean floor is very costly, only
Fighting Ukraine Misinformation on Twitter
The company said it would rely on multiple sources to determine when claims are misleading. Strong commentary and first person accounts are among the types of tweets that would not be challenged by the policy, it said. Twitter has said it plans to put misleading tweets from official accounts about the Ukraine war behind warning
China’s Huawei and ZTE 5 G ban in Canada
Canada says it will ban two of China’s biggest telecoms equipment makers from working on its 5G phone networks. Huawei Canada said its equipment had been “closely scrutinised” by the government and security agencies, and added there had been “zero security incidents caused by Huawei equipment”. The Canadian government’s decision means that telecoms firms in