Category: News

How the self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Canada’ causes true harm to her subjects

An American criminology professor describes Romana Didulo as a ‘mixture of QAnon conspiracy theories, pseudo-legal sovereign-citizen beliefs and new age spirituality’
Proclaiming herself as the ‘Queen of Canada,’ outspoken QAnon conspiracist lead Roman……


IFA 2023 could be a moment for the smart home shine

A year ago at Berlin’s IFA tech trade show (think European CES), Verge reporter Jon Porter witnessed a Google Nest Hub control an Apple HomeKit smart plug. This “lightbulb moment for the smart home” was the first public demonstration of Matter.
IFA 202……


India Shares Video Proof Of Its Phenomenal Moon Landing And Rover

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The world celebrated India on its historic moon landing Wednesday, as it became the first space program to reach the lunar south pole region with a robotic spacecraft.
But in the words of a cynical internet meme: Pics, or it didn’t happen.
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Defiant North Korea tells UN its spy satellite program is its ‘legitimate right as a sovereign state’

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In a defiant speech to the UN Security Council, North Korea insisted its efforts to launch a spy satellite into space are transparent and within “its legitimate right as a sovereign state.”

Pyongyang’s ambassador to the UN Kim Song defended his country during a rare address to the UN on Friday, denying that the country had been seeking to acquire intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology through its satellite launch.

Defiant North Korea tells UN its spy satellite program is its ‘legitimate right as a sovereign state’ comes via ChinaTechNews.com.

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India’s lunar rover keeps walking on the moon, days after spacecraft’s historic touchdown

Open this photo in gallery: The Chandrayaan-3 rover as it manoeuvred from the lunar lander to the surface of the Moon, in this handout screen grab taken and released by the Indian Space Research Organisation on Aug. 25.-/AFP/Getty Images
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North Korea’s second attempt to place spy satellite in orbit fails, state media reports

North Korea says that its second attempt to launch a spy satellite has ended in a failure, citing ‘an error in the emergency blasting system during the third-stage flight’. Photograph:
North Korea’s second attempt to place a spy satellite in orbit fail……


Toxic fallout from Fukushima nuclear accident will continue for decades

News that Japan will begin releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear accident into the Pacific Ocean from Thursday have caught few by surprise. The plan, which will see 1.3 million tons of wastewater discharged over the next 30-40 ……


South African news site alleges cyber attack from India after it published a report on PM Modi

South African digital news website Daily Maverick on Wednesday alleged that it has been subject to a cyber attack from India after it published a report on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival for the BRICS summit.
“I can confirm we have been subject……


ISRO’s YouTube livestream trumps Twitch record on viewers, says report

Wednesday’s feat was historic as India became the first country to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon’s south pole, and the fourth to land on the moon after the USA, China and the former USSR.

Chandrayaan-2 had successfully launched the orbiter in 2019 but scientists could only watch as the lander and rover modules crashed on the lunar surface months later.

ISRO’s YouTube livestream trumps Twitch record on viewers, says report comes via ChinaTechNews.com.

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Huawei is building a secret network for semiconductor chips, trade group reportedly warns

Huawei Technologies Co is building a collection of secret semiconductor-fabrication facilities across China to let the company skirt U.S. sanctions, a Washington-based semiconductor association has warned, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
The Chines……