More than 30 metric tons of cocaine and marijuana have been seized by the US Coast Guard The US Coast Guard offloaded tons of illegal substances at Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades in South Florida on Thursday, following one of the biggest anti-drug ops undertaken by American authorities. Officials say the drugs are worth more than […]
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Google facing $2 billion anti-competitive lawsuit
Google is accused of manipulating search results to favor its own service PriceRunner, a Swedish price comparison site, has filed a $2.4 billion lawsuit against Google, claiming the search engine manipulates search results to benefit its own commercial services. In the lawsuit, filed on Monday, the Swedish company claims the tech giant has caused damage […]
Apple’s ‘secret’ $275 billion deal with China exposed
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly signed a “secret” $275 billion deal with Chinese authorities to bypass restrictions on his company’s operations, according to newly published internal documents. Struck in 2016, the massive five-year agreement included a vow from Apple to boost the Chinese economy through investments and other business enterprises, according to a report by […]
Moon has enough oxygen for 8 billion people – scientist
The Moon’s atmosphere doesn’t contain enough oxygen for human life, but under the planet’s rocky top layer, there’s enough of the gas to sustain eight billion human lives for 100,000 years, according to a prominent scientist. In a piece penned this week in The Conversation, John Grant, a lecturer in soil science at Australia’s Southern […]
Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates
Citing “growing concerns” about privacy and ethics, Facebook has announced it will stop using face recognition technology and delete more than a billion individual templates harvested so far from users who opted into the program. The decision comes as part of “a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products,” Jerome […]
India celebrates landmark 1 BILLION Covid vaccinations, but millions still have yet to receive first dose
In a huge effort to vaccinate its population, India has celebrated the landmark of administering 1 billion Covid shots. However, millions of Indians are still yet to receive their first dose. Taking to Twitter on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the milestone: “India scripts history. We are witnessing the triumph of Indian science, enterprise […]
EU becomes largest Covid vaccine exporter, shipping ‘over one billion’ doses worldwide
Having shipped at least a billion jabs since the global rollout began in December 2020, the bloc has been the biggest exporter of Covid vaccines, European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen has announced. Delivering a statement on Monday, von der Leyen outlined the scale of the EU’s Covid vaccine distribution scheme. It has […]
Taliban recognition still off the table for Berlin, Merkel says as EU pledges $1.2 billion in aid to Afghanistan
Berlin is still not ready to recognize the Taliban as ruler of Afghanistan as it has not formed an “inclusive” government, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said while pledging major financial aid to Afghanistan, along with the EU. The Taliban militants did not form the inclusive government required by the international community, the chancellor said on […]
Scraped data of 1.5 BILLION Facebook users offered for sale on the dark web – reports
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all down, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has another headache: The personal data of 1.5 billion customers, scraped from his platform, is reportedly being offered for sale on the dark web. User IDs, real names, email addresses, phone numbers, and locations are among the data of more than 1.5 billion […]
Subway sandwiches ridicule France & AUKUS submarine controversy with ad boasting of ‘$90 billion cheaper subs’
Following Australia’s decision to ditch a AUS$90-billion multi-submarine deal with France this week in favor of another deal with the USA, American fast food chain Subway mockingly reacted in an advertisement for its sandwiches. In a full-page advert published in The Age newspaper on Saturday, Subway boasted that it had “non-nuclear powered” subs which were […]
China fully vaccinates 1 BILLION of its population against Covid
China’s mammoth inoculation campaign has seen more than one billion of its citizens – just over 70% of its population – fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to figures from Beijing’s National Health Commission. In a press conference on Thursday, senior health official Lei Zhenglong revealed that as of September 15, over one billion people […]