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WASHINGTON | BY DUSTIN VOLZ (Reuters) — Facebook on Tuesday announced it had bolstered the default encryption settings for the more than one billion users of its popular WhatsApp messaging service so that all messages will now be accessible only to the sender and recipient. The update arrives amid a heightened international debate over how much access law enforcement should have to digital communications and follows a high-profile showdown between Apple and the FBI over […]
(Reuters) — Twitter Inc is offering a new feature that would make it easier for users to share tweets privately with friends, the company said in a blog post. The feature, “Message button”, updates an existing option that allows tweets to be sent privately through direct messages. Twitter said the feature would be available from Tuesday for the iOS and Android mobile platforms. (Reporting by Rishika Sadam in Bengaluru; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)
SYDNEY | BY BYRON KAYE (Reuters) — Software produced by a little-known Australian developer has helped journalists piece together news leads from the mountains of data found in the contents of the Panama Papers, one of the biggest document leaks in history. Sydney-based Nuix Pty Ltd donated its document analysis program to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) to sift through the millions of leaked documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. The Panama […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Mining, oil exploration, illegal logging and other industries threaten almost half the natural World Heritage Sites the UN seeks to preserve for future generations, conservation group WWF said Wednesday. The 114 threatened sites provide food, water, shelter and medicine to over 11 million people — more than the population of Portugal, according to a WWF-commissioned report. “Despite the obvious benefits of these natural areas, we still haven’t managed to decouple economic […]
MUMBAI/SEOUL | BY HIMANK SHARMA AND SE YOUNG LEE (Reuters) — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is regaining smartphone share in India with a revamped line-up packed with special features including a safety mode for motorcyclists, as rival Apple Inc readies a renewed push into the world’s fastest-growing market. Long the leader in price-conscious India, the South Korean giant had been losing ground to local rivals such as Micromax and Lava, as well as Chinese brands. […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – The largest oval fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at an auction shattered Asia’s jewelry auction record in Hong Kong on Tuesday (April 5) evening. The internally flawless blue diamond, weighing at 10.10 carats, was sold to an anonymous phone bidder at US$31.8 million at Sotheby’s Spring Sales after a couple minutes of bidding. Before a 12 percent buyer’s premium was added, the diamond’s hammer price of US$28.38 […]
Eagle News International — Climate economists are warning that trillions of dollars’ worth of financial assets may be under threat from global warming’s effects by 2100. A team warned that if warming reaches 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial revolution levels by 2100; investments worth some $2.5 trillion dollars may be in danger. This was equal to half the current estimated stock market value of fossil-fuel companies. But even if the 2 degrees […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – A painting by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian sold for nearly $35 million (24.54 million pounds) at an auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday (April 5), the most one of his works has ever fetched, underscoring strong demand for quality Chinese art despite an overall slowdown in the market. The two-meter (6.5 feet) long scroll inkbrush painting “Peach Blossom Spring” more than tripled its expected price at a spring Sotheby’s […]
Reuters – A video released by NASA on Monday (April 4) shows a spectacular view of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The video shows city lights and lightning flashes as the ISS circles the Earth. NASA describes the ISS as a “microgravity laboratory”, occupied by six people travelling at a speed of 5 miles per second and orbiting the Earth every ninety minutes. The space station has been occupied continuously […]
UNITED Arab Emirates (Reuters) — A mobile app developed in the United Arab Emirates is hoping to help children with autism and other developmental disabilities better communicate with their parents and teachers. The Babnoor app is an Arabic language app that developers say is the first of its kind in the Middle East. Autism, formally known as autism spectrum disorder, is a disorder that affects how the brain processes information. Children with autism usually suffer from […]
Reuters – In the future, diabetics may be able to replace finger prick tests and injections with this non-invasive smart patch to keep their glucose levels in check. “The device is a type of patch which enables diabetic patients to monitor blood sugar levels via sweat without taking blood samples and control glucose levels by injecting medication,” South Korean Researcher at Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Professor at Seoul National University, Kim Dae-Hyeong said. […]
Reuters – In the latest image released by NASA on Monday (April 4), ‘a half-lit’ Saturn sits askew as the planet’s moon Dione (698 miles or 1,123 kilometers across) looks on from lower left,’ Nasa said. The picture was taken using the Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers), NASA said. “The terminator, which separates night from day on Saturn, is also askew, owing […]
