Month: June 2022
pornography censorship in China
Chinese have reportedly developed a device that can detect when a man is watching pornography by ‘reading his mind’. It was tested on 15 male university students who would wear the device while sat in front of a computer screen – with an alarm going off when explicit imagery was detected by the brain. The
WhatsApp update adds new privacy
WhatsApp has added new privacy tools intended to keep people’s personal information safe. The update lets people choose whether that information can be shown to everyone, only people in your contacts, everyone in your contacts apart from specific people, or nobody at all. Now the app includes new tools that mean users can control who
Microsoft’s Outlook email outage
Microsoft’s Outlook email platform has been hit by service issues making it inaccessible to some users. However, the outage appears to be unrelated to an issue at web infrastructure firm Cloudflare which took a large number of popular websites offline earlier on Tuesday morning. The company has confirmed the problem and said it is working
Bitcoin recovery
Bitcoin may not break its high of $69,000 for years after the recent market crashes, the head of Binance has said. Bitcoin is currently trading at $20,490, a price that is thought to be “very low today”. Cryptocurrencies started plummeting when Terra’s UST stablecoin lost its peg to the dollar and caused its sister coin
ads on Netflix
Netflix is definitely putting ads into its service, it has announced. The new plan would allow the company to bring in users who are more happy to watch ads and pay less for their subscription. The plan is likely one of the company’s many responses to its user base shrinking and its revenues declining. It
Brexit punishment
As a result of Brexit disputes over Northern Ireland, the EU has blocked the UK from participating in Horizon Europe, an £80billion research programme that allows scientists to access EU grants and collaborate with European researchers. The European Research Council (ERC), which is the bloc’s main research funding agency, told the UK-based applicants that those
Chile’s industrialised ‘sacrifice’ zones
Hundreds of people, many of them children, have fallen ill after being exposed to toxic pollution since the beginning of June in the Chilean cities of Quintero and Puchuncaví. With widespread pollution from heavy industry and harmful cases of contamination in the past, the region is considered a “sacrifice zone” of the country. Residents point
America’s Supreme Court abortion decision
Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court decided by a 6-3 majority to uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. In doing so, the justices overturned two key decisions protecting access to abortion: 1973’s Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey,
Ukraine bombardments originates from Belarus border
Ukraine’s northern border region of Chernigiv came under “massive bombardment” from the territory of Russia’s ally Belarus on Saturday. The strikes come as Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Belarussian counterpart and close ally Alexander Lukashenko in Saint Petersburg Moscow’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to visit Belarus on Thursday and Friday. Belarus has
Russian missile fails
Surface-to-air missiles do not carry large warheads. Instead, they rely on speed to smash into the bodies of planes and helicopters and ignite the aircraft’s fuel or render it so unstable that it crashes. Dramatic video posted to social media captures the moment a Russian surface-to-air missile system appears to fire on itself. In the