Didi, the Chinese version of popular ride-hailing service Uber is facing controversies over its suspicious data collection among its customers. The authorities from the government have visited Didi’s branches to run a cybersecurity assessment. Cyberspace Regulators to Review Didi (Photo : NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)In this picture taken on October 18, 2018, a driver working for ride-sharing company Didi follows a map on his smartphone to bring a customer to his destination in Beijing. – Didi is a popular taxi and ride-sharing service in China that is operated via a smartphone app. According to the latest report by CNBC,…
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The death toll from devastating floods in Europe soared to at least 126 on Friday, most in western Germany where emergency responders were frantically searching for missing people.Unsuspecting residents were caught completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the “flood of death” by Germany’s top-selling daily Bild.Streets and houses were submerged by water in some areas, while cars were left overturned on soaked streets after flood waters passed. Some districts were completely cut off from the outside world.”Everything was under water within 15 minutes,” Agron Berischa, a 21-year-old decorator from Bad Neuenahr in Rhineland-Palatinate state, told AFP.”Our flat, our office,…
Urian B., Tech Times 16 July 2021, 07:07 am (Photo : Screenshot From Pexels Official Website) 4,000 $ETH Stolen from THORchain in Blockchain Attack | Worth Over $7.6 Million USD 4,000 $ETH was reportedly stolen from THORchain in a recent blockchain attack. At the moment of this article’s writing the worth of 4,000 $ETH is a little over $7.6 million USD. What happened? THORchain Victim of Blockchain Attack According to the story by CoinDesk, THORchain has just suffered a massive attack that had been successful in draining out 4,000 ethereum from the blockchain’s very own crypto trading protocol. This news…
Russian officials hailed a “miracle” on Friday after a passenger plane made an emergency landing in a Siberian field and all 18 people on board emerged, suffering only cuts and bruises.The An-28 plane, operated by Siberian Light Aviation (SiLA), was flying from the town of Kedrovy to Tomsk when communication was lost, Governor Sergei Zhvachkin’s office said.The emergencies ministry announced later that the plane had been found, apparently after making a “hard landing”, and that survivors had been spotted.The aviation agency said the plane had been found 155 kilometres (96 miles) from the airstrip in Tomsk.Zhvachkin’s office announced that everyone…
Professor Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer (CMO) of England, has warned that the United Kingdom is “not out of the woods yet” with the coronavirus pandemic, adding that the number of people hospitalised with Covid-19 is likely to attain “quite a scary level” if the current trend of doubling of hospitalisations due to Covid-19 every three weeks continues.”We are in a much better shape due to our vaccine programme, drugs and a variety of other things. However, we are not, by any means, out of the woods yet on this. We shouldn’t also underestimate the fact that we could…
(Photo : Pixabay/geralt) Facebook app feature Facebook is reportedly testing a brand new feature that will let users know when their post was removed from the platform due to automation. The new feature comes in response to the Oversight Board, which has stated that Facebook should be more transparent with their users, especially when it comes to why their posts are removed. Facebook’s Feature to Notify Users of Post Removal The social media company revealed the new feature through a report that gives updates on how the platform is handling the policy recommendations of the Oversight Board. The test comes in…
Russia has outlawed an investigative media portal for publishing a report last year that alleged President Vladimir Putin had secretly fathered a daughter outside his marriage. The country’s prosecutor general declared the portal, Proekt Media, an “undesirable organization,” as it “posed a threat to the foundations of constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation,” according to a report in Bloomberg.The article, published by Proekt, had claimed that the daughter of a multi-millionaire woman who is a shareholder in Bank Rossiya bears a close resemblance to Putin. The bank is under the control of Yury Kovalchuk, a billionaire close to…
The highly contagious Delta variant has caused the biggest threat to Australia’s coronavirus disease (Covid-19) response in months as the number of fully vaccinated people catching the infection is rising. A nurse at Westmead Hospital in New South Wales and a worker at the Brisbane international airport are reported to have Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated against the disease, according to The Guardian.Australia reported 103 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on Friday and the bulk of it came from Sydney, taking the total caseload in the ongoing outbreak, which began a month ago, to more than 1,000. The latest Covid-19 outbreak…
The Nintendo Switch OLED is the newest Nintendo console that recently arrived. The gaming community’s speculation about the Nintendo Switch Pro came to an end when this console was introduced earlier this month. Like any consoles that have ongoing restocks, the OLED model is no different since the preorders are now already unavailable in selected retail stores. As usual, Nintendo consoles are top hits during the pre-order stage. This was evident in the sales of the Nintendo Switch, which has already sold more than 85 million units as of March of this year. The company expects that the growth in…
As the Taliban fighters are rapidly making advances in Afghanistan and capturing new territories every passing day, the role of Pakistan pertaining to regional security has become a cause of concern. By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav, Hindustan Times, New Delhi PUBLISHED ON JUL 16, 2021 03:28 PM IST Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has become the impediment to peaceful coexistence with India. Khan was responding to a question on whether “talks and terror can go hand in hand”.”We can tell India that we [Pakistan] have been waiting…