In its proposedBudget 2021: A recovery plan for jobs, growth, and resilience,the government of Canada has outlined plans to renew the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, by allocating CAD$443.8 million over ten years in...
Associated Newspapers, the Daily Mail owner in the UK, has sued Google for manipulating search results and exercising too much control over online advertising. The publishers claim that Google downgrades publishers in its search r...
India's Minister of Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank launched a programme designed to meet the increasing requirement for e-learning content, especially during the Coronavirus outbreak.The programme wi...
Facebook has bought 9.9% of Indian telecommunications company Reliance Jio's stakes for US$5.7 billion, allowing Facebook a firm foothold in India's fast-growing telecom market while helping Reliance reduce its debt burden. ...
Last September Huawei submitted the original proposal for the New IP at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) meeting, as well as proposed to set up a formal structure to work on this issue. Huawei's proposal was ...
India started arresting citizens for posting fake information about the Coronavirus on social media. Around 100 people were arrested on charges related to spreading misinformation on the topic. India has not passed any 'fake news'...
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the UN have released a report entitled 'Frontier technologies to protect the environment and tackle climate change'. The report was released to mark the celebration of Earth Day...
To ease the strain on Djibouti's health system and support medical facilities during the COVID-19 crisis, young migrants in the country are using 3D-printers to make face shields. The shields are produced in a training space calle...
Civil society organisations and experts in law, technology, and information in Israel sent a letter to the minister of justice and the attorney general of Israel asking them to include the Privacy Protection Authority(PPA) in the ...
The European Parliament voted for the establishment of a border management system known as the Common Identity Repository (CIR). The database will collate the identity and biometric records of over 350 million persons. Apart ...
Alibaba will invest$717.2 million in rural e-commerce platform startup Huitongda. The investment is part of Alibaba's plan to expand its rural presence and sales outside major cities. In late 2014, Alibaba launched its Rural Taoba...
Eugene Kaspersky, a CEO and a finder of Kaspersky Lab, warned that cybersecurity of the process automation and industrial control systems within critical infrastructure, such as power plants and water supplies, is on a very weak l...