China’s consumers have good reason to be skeptical about their groceries as it is a nation where food safety is so elusive that even some chicken eggs have been found to be fake. And therefore novel ways to highlight the wholesomeness of their products have been sought for by many food processors. But in what…
After a leap in prices to record levels last year, salmon devotees should prepare to pay more for their smoked fish or grilled fillets. Noting the first decline in six years and the steepest fall in a quarter of a century, supplies of global farmed salmon fell almost 9 per cent from the previous year,…
A security bug at WhatsApp could help bring an end-to-end encryption as owner Facebook has promised. The bug could allow encrypted messages to be intercepted from the popular messaging app. All communications such as text messages, videos and other files flowing the service would be encrypted, WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook in 2014, said last year.…
The hacking expert has been hacked in the United States. Having fallen a victim itself to hackers is Cellebrite, a digital forensics firm known for helping law enforcement crack into locked smartphones. It had obtained 900 gigabytes of data related to the Israel-based company, technology news website Motherboard said on Thursday. Customer information, databases and technical…
With the arrival of a 615-seater superjumbo service for the first time, Emirates is set to boost flights to Hong Kong. According to aviation data tracking service Airline Route, from October 1, the Dubai carrier will commence regular service with the aircraft on its Dubai-Bangkok-Hong Kong service — flights EK384/385. in response to the high demand for travel…
In a world that’s rapidly moving on to music streaming and podcasts, Norway has been left as a lonely beacon of digital-only broadcasting as the Scandinavian country switches off its FM radio network this week and other nations have abandoned similar plans. European nations, which are starting to question the benefits of shutting down analog…
In order for Britain to avoid a systemic economic meltdown, the U.K. government was urged to consider extending Brexit negotiations to a five-year transitional process by London’s financial bosses. In a meeting with MPs at the Treasury select committee, calls for the U.K. government to clarify its future relationship with the European Union (EU) were renewed by the chief…
A court is now examining whether agents of the FBI can hand over evidence to law enforcement agencies without obtaining a prior warrant or a specific consent for search and seizure. In an interesting turn of events, the lawyer of a person accused in a child pornography case has alleged that Geek Squad, Best Buy’s…
As if that wasn’t impressive enough, Netherlands completed its targets a year earlier than planned. The Netherlands has been a pioneer in harnessing the power of water and the wind to saw timber and produce oil for centuries. The country has now upgraded its bio harvesting capabilities by harvesting win energy to rain all of…
Ranking Apple Inc. highly even next to fellow “A” grade firms Google and Facebookfor a third consecutive year, activist group Greenpeace has deemed Apple the world’s most environmentally-friendly technology platform company. Companies have been ranked on a range of green credentials, from energy transparency and renewable procurement to energy efficiency and mitigation in the report, Clicking…
