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Britain’s ‘first gay father’ and his husband charged with child sex offences

Millionaire football club owner Barrie Drewitt-Barlow and his spouse face 18 additional charges ...

North Korea intensifies Chinese mobile phone crackdown ahead of half-year performance review

Security agents in North Korea’s border regions have intensified efforts to catch people using...

France reports five deaths as heatwave scorches Europe

Thirteen people drowned over the weekend as soaring temperatures drove crowds to beaches, rivers,...

Palestinian flag row at US graduation sparks outcry

A video shared online shows a Seattle University provost grabbing a Palestinian flag from...

Ransomware Persists Even as High-Profile Attacks Have Slowed

In the months since President Joe Biden warned Russia's Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs in his country, there...

Ireland frets as criticism over Big Tech links goes mainstream

Ireland’s besieged data privacy regulator is fast becoming a problem too big for Dublin to ignore. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has long faced...

50 years ago, scientists were genetically modifying mosquitoes

50 years ago, scientists were genetically modifying mosquitoes https://ift.tt/3e5Us3C Published December 18, 2021 at 06:30PM https://ift.tt/3j9aYmP

French minister: Europe’s Big Tech crackdown is not about the US

France’s junior digital minister has pushed back against claims that draft European tech rules unfairly target American companies, saying he wishes that more EU...

Portuguese investor will buy Euronews

A Portuguese investment firm has signed an agreement to buy the controlling stake in Lyon-based broadcaster Euronews from Egyptian telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris. Euronews...

UN launches hunt for new technology envoy after harassment suits lands diplomat in hot water

Wanted: Tech thought leader, clean as a whistle, preferably a woman.The United Nations has launched its search for a new technology envoy, who would...

After Whistleblower Disclosures, Facebook Faces an Uncertain Future

After internal Facebook documents were shared widely with news organizations, the question remains whether and how Facebook will change. Michelle Quinn reports. December 17,...

The triumph and fallibility of science in a historic year

The triumph and fallibility of science in a historic year https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Published December 13, 2021 at 05:30PM https://ift.tt/3j9aYmP

COVID-19 testing is complicated right now. Here are answers to 6 big questions

COVID-19 testing is complicated right now. Here are answers to 6 big questions https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Published December 17, 2021 at 07:30PM https://ift.tt/3j9aYmP

These are the viruses that mRNA vaccines may take on next

These are the viruses that mRNA vaccines may take on next https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Published December 17, 2021 at 05:30PM https://ift.tt/3j9aYmP

China-Russia Collaboration in Space Poses Challenge for West

China and Russia have begun collaborating on technology to rival the United States' GPS and European Galileo satellite navigation systems, as the two countries...

Chinese Spies Hacked Australian Telecom Using Huawei & malicious Software: Bloomberg

The US government has warned for years that products from Huawei Technologies Co. China, the world's largest producer of telecommunications equipment, poses a national...

A CDC panel recommends mRNA COVID-19 vaccines over J&J’s, citing fewer risks

A CDC panel recommends mRNA COVID-19 vaccines over J&J’s, citing fewer risks https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Published December 17, 2021 at 05:26AM https://ift.tt/3j9aYmP

A terrifying robot can thwart invasive mosquito fish

A terrifying robot can thwart invasive mosquito fish https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Published December 16, 2021 at 09:30PM https://ift.tt/3j9aYmP

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