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In A First, Self-Driving Bus Experiment Begins In South Korea Capital

Shawdesh Desk: South Korea’s capital launched its first self-driving bus route on Friday, part of an experiment that engineers said aims to make people feel more comfortable with driverless vehicles

Large-scale protests break out at China iPhone factory

Shawdesh Desk: Large-scale protests broke out at Foxconn’s vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, central China, images circulating Wednesday on Weibo and Twitter showed. Beijing’s unrelenting zero-Covid policy has caused fatigue

Liftoff! NASA successfully launches mega Moon rocket

Shawdesh Desk: NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, in a spectacular blaze of light and sound that marked the start of

Blue tick accounts suspended from Twitter after impersonating @elonmusk

Shawdesh Desk: Verified Twitter accounts with millions of followers have been suspended after their user name was changed to Elon Musk, as the platform’s users test the new owner’s commitment

Chinese scientists create world’s first cloned arctic wolf

Shawdesh desk: Scientists in China have successfully created the world’s first cloned arctic wolf. Using the latest in biotechnology, Beijing-based firm Sinogene Biotechnology Co was able to achieve the final

Tim Cook: ‘No good excuse’ for lack of women in tech

Shawdesh desk: Apple chief executive Tim Cook says there are still “not enough women at the table” at the world’s tech firms – including his own. In an exclusive interview

Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica privacy suit

Shawdesh Desk; Facebook has reached a preliminary agreement in a long-running lawsuit seeking damages from the social network for allowing third parties, including the company Cambridge Analytica, to access users’

Whistleblower accuses Twitter of hiding major flaws

Shawdesh Desk: Twitter misled users and US regulators about “extreme, egregious” gaps in its online protections, the platform’s ex-security chief claimed in whistleblower testimony that could impact the court fight