“AT&T and Verizon on Sunday rejected the U.S. Department of Transportation’s request that they delay this week’s scheduled launch of a new round of 5G wireless service,” reports Politico, adding that the carriers “instead pledged to take enhanced measures to avoid warned disruptions of air travel…” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Read more…
“Chinese telecom giant Huawei said on Friday its annual revenue had fallen by nearly a third from the previous year,” reports Agence France-Presse, “as it continued to be weighed down by U.S. sanctions that have hit its smartphone sales…” The firm’s revenue for this year fell by 29% year-on-year to Read more…
“Since joining NASA in 1980, Jim Green has seen it all,” writes the New York Times. He has helped the space agency understand Earth’s magnetic field, explore the outer solar system and search for life on Mars. As the new year arrived on Saturday, he bade farewell to the agency. Read more…
Thousands of people — included hundreds of men — were accused of witchcraft in Scotland, the Guardian reports, “from allegations of cursing the king’s ships, to shape-shifting into animals and birds, or dancing with the devil.” Many were executed. Now, three centuries after the Witchcraft Act was repealed, campaigners are Read more…
“Thousands of people received a surprise gift on Christmas Day this year,” reports CNBC, “when European bank Santander accidentally deposited £130 million ($176 million) across 75,000 transactions.” The mistake happened when payments from 2,000 business accounts in the U.K. were processed twice, meaning some employees saw their wages double, while Read more…
China is turning a major part of its internal Internet data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on foreign targets, according to a Washington Post review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company Read more…
The Public Health Agency of Canada (or PHAC) “accessed location data from 33 million mobile devices to monitor people’s movement during lockdown”. “Due to the urgency of the pandemic, PHAC collected and used mobility data, such as cell-tower location data, throughout the COVID-19 response,” a spokesperson told National Post… PHAC Read more…