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Israel invests in high-tech upgrades at West Bank crossings

West Bank, July 29 : It’s just after 6 a.m. and a Palestinian man’s face is momentarily bathed in crimson light, not by the sun rising over the mountains of Jordan, but by a facial recognition scanner at an Israeli checkpoint near Jerusalem. The Israeli military has installed the face scanners as part a multimillion dollar upgrade of the Qalandia ...

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Nokia gets big profit lift from new-generation 5G networks

Helsinki, Jul 25 : Nokia says its second-quarter earnings nearly doubled on the back of orders from telecom operators for new-generation 5G mobile networks that will be commercially launched en masse this year. The Espoo, Finland-based company said Thursday that its net profit for the April-June period was 258 million euros ($287 million), against 139 million euros a year earlier. ...

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Moon back in NASA’s court 50 years after 1st lunar landing

Photo: In this, May 9, 2019, file photo, Jeff Bezos speaks in front of a model of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington. Cape Canaveral, Jul 21 : Fifty years after humanity’s first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA’s court. The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pronto — by 2024, a scant five ...

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Fast-growing web of doorbell cams raises privacy fears

Photo: Ernie Field holds up a live video of himself taken by a Ring doorbell camera at the front door at his home in Wolcott, Conn.  Dhaka, Jul 19 : The woodsy community of Wolcott, Connecticut, doesn’t see a lot of crime. But when the police chief heard about an opportunity to distribute doorbell cameras to some homes, he didn’t hesitate. ...

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New election systems use vulnerable software

Washington, Jul 13 : Pennsylvania’s message was clear: The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020. Last April, its top election official told counties they had to update their systems. So far, nearly 60 percent have taken action, with $14.15 million of mostly federal funds helping counties buy brand new electoral systems. ...

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Facebook to be fined $5bn for Cambridge Analytica privacy violations

The US Federal Trade Commission has reportedly voted to approve fining Facebook roughly $5bn to settle an investigation into the company’s privacy violations that was launched following the Cambridge Analytica revelations. The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, both citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, reported Friday afternoon that the settlement was approved by a 3-2 vote that broke ...

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India prepares to land rover on moon in global space race

Photo: An Indian woman takes a photograph of her son as he poses in a cut-out of an astronaut at the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 11, 2019. New Delhi, Jul 12 : India is looking to take a giant leap in its space program and solidify its place among the world’s spacefaring nations with its second ...

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Hayabusa-2: Japanese spacecraft lands for final asteroid mission

A Japanese spacecraft has landed on a faraway asteroid, where it will collect space rock that may hold clues to how the universe evolved. The successful touchdown on the Ryugu asteroid was met with relief and cheering in the control room at Japan’s space agency, JAXA. It is the second landing for the unmanned Hayabusa-2, which touched down on the ...

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UK health service to use Amazon Alexa to give medical advice

In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 file photo, an Amazon Alexa display is seen at a store in Hialeah, Fla. Britain’s health agency is teaming up with Amazon’s digital voice assistant to help answer medical queries with advice from the agency’s official website. London, Jul 10 : Alexa will see you now. Britain’s health care service is teaming up with ...

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No scope of arbitration with GP, Robi over dues: BTRC chairman

Dhaka, July 7 : Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Md Jahurul Haque on Sunday said there is no scope of arbitration with Grameenphone and Robi as per the existing law over realising dues from them. “The path of dialogue is open but the mobile phone operators must pay the dues. They can sit with us anytime they want. However, ...

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