The U.S. Treasury Department has fined Capital One $80 million for careless network security practices that enabled one of the biggest bank security breaches on record
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China celebrates completion of rival sat navigation system
China is celebrating the completion of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System that could rival the U.S. Global Positioning System and significantly boost China’s security and geopolitical clout
Virgin Galactic shows off passenger spaceship cabin interior
Virgin Galactic has revealed what the interior of the rocket ship will look like that will carry passengers on suborbital flights into the space’s lower reaches
Chinese executives get ‘pre-test’ injections in vaccine race
A state-owned Chinese company is boasting that its employees received doses of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine even before the government approved testing in people
UAE’s Mars orbiter launch from Japan delayed by weather
The liftoff of the United Arab Emirates’ Mars orbiter has been postponed until Friday due to bad weather at the Japanese launch site
UN: World could hit 1.5-degree warming threshold in 5 years
The U.N. weather agency says the world could see average global temperatures rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average for the first time in the coming five years
Civil rights groups denounce Facebook over hate speech
Facebook keeps telling critics that it is doing everything it can to rid its service of hate, abuse and misinformation
Desperation science’ slows the hunt for coronavirus drugs
Six months after COVID-19 started spreading around the globe, desperation rather than information is still driving many decisions about how to treat the disease
Facebook civil rights audit: ‘serious setbacks’ mar progress
A two-year audit of Facebook’s civil rights record found “serious setbacks” that have marred the social network’s progress on matters such as hate speech, misinformation and bias
Russian space official charged with treason
An adviser to the director of Russia’s state space corporation has been detained on treason charges
India bans TikTok, other Chinese apps amid border standoff
India is banning dozens of Chinese apps amid a military standoff in the remote Karakoram mountain border region
Uber buys Postmates for $2.65 billion as food delivery companies try to survive a crowded, intensely competitive field
Uber buys Postmates for $2.65 billion as food delivery companies try to survive a crowded, intensely competitive field
Indians keep their distance in mass tree planting campaign
More than 2 million people have gathered in northern India while trying to practice social distancing to plant 250 million trees as part of a government plan to tackle climate change
Detroit police challenged over face recognition flaws, bias
A Black man who says he was unjustly arrested because facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a suspected shoplifter is calling for a public apology from Detroit police
Google to start paying some news publishers for content
Google says it will start paying some news publishers for their journalistic content, in a deal that could ease tensions between the internet search giant and the beleagured news industry
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