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Opinion: The terrible timing of YouTube's Notre-Dame snafu 17 Apr 2019 - 07:26 pm
A picture illustration shows YouTube on a cell phone in front of a YouTube copyright message regarding a video on an LCD screen in central Bosnian town of Zenica June 18, 2014. Reuters/Dado Ruvic
EU unfair practices digital rules put spotlight on Google, Amazon, Facebook 17 Apr 2019 - 03:25 pm
FILE PHOTO: Small toy figures are seen in front of Google logo in this illustration picture, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Why TikTok ban may not have the desired results 17 Apr 2019 - 12:53 pm
FILE PHOTO: The logo of the TikTok application is seen on a mobile phone screen in this picture illustration taken February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo
Seals, caviar and oil: Caspian Sea faces pollution threat 16 Apr 2019 - 06:50 pm
Baku men fish at an embankment of the Caspian Sea whose surface at many palces now shows strips and patches of oil in this poto taken on March 22, 2019. AFP / Mladen Antonov
UK proposes banning social media 'likes' for children 15 Apr 2019 - 02:33 pm
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World's largest plane makes first flight 14 Apr 2019 - 04:43 pm
This handout photograph obtained courtesy of Stratolaunch shows the Stratolaunch plane flying above the California desert, April 13, 2019, the first test flight of the US company's gigantic aircraft whose wingspan is almost half that of an Airbus A380. (A
Seychelles president's underwater speech: Protect our oceans 14 Apr 2019 - 10:23 am
Screen grab of the video of president addressing from under the ocean that was shared live on twitter.
To get to the Moon in 2024, the rocket is just NASA's first headache 12 Apr 2019 - 07:59 pm
Vacuum sealed food on display inside the NASA Lunar Habitat designed by Lockheed Martin during the 35th Space Symposium at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, on April 9, 2019. AFP / Jason Connolly
WhatsApp renames, tweaks feature to ignore archives 12 Apr 2019 - 01:07 pm
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No nausea for Beth Moses, Virgin's space tourist trainer 11 Apr 2019 - 10:45 pm
(From L to R) Virgin Galactic Chief Pilot Dave Mackay, Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses, and Lead Pilot trainer Mike ‘Sooch’ Masucci pose at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 9, 2019. AFP / Ivan Couronne
Scientists reveal first image ever of a black hole 10 Apr 2019 - 05:42 pm
A handout photo provided by the European Southern Observatory on April 10, 2019 shows the first photograph of a black hole and its fiery halo.
Green machines? Flying taxis could slash emissions for long journeys 09 Apr 2019 - 11:03 pm
An artistic rendering of an electric vertical takeoff and landing taxi cruising through an urban center. Dave Brenner/University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability
NASA turns its focus to earth with aid partnership 09 Apr 2019 - 09:35 pm
Thousands of houses in New Orleans remain under water one week after Hurricane Katrina went through Louisiana Mississippi, and Alabama in this September 5, 2005 file photo. Reuters / Allen Fredrickson
A short first hop for 'drone taxi' in Vienna 09 Apr 2019 - 01:04 am
hristian Bauer, Volocopter's head of business development, poses sitting in a passenger drone Volocopter 2X during a media preview at Rotorcraft and Unmanned Systems exhibition in Singapore on April 8, 2019. / AFP / Roslan Rahman
Brussels boy to pee-cycle after landmark leak inquiry 07 Apr 2019 - 11:19 pm
Brussels' energy technician Regis Callens points at the Manneken-pis landmark statue in Brussels on April 2, 2019.  AFP/Emmanuel Dunand
China's virtual reality arcades aim for real-world success 07 Apr 2019 - 11:49 am
In this photo taken on February 13, 2019, a woman plays a video game using a virtual-reality headset at an arcade in Shanghai. AFP/Matthew Knight
In astrophysics milestone, first photo of black hole expected 06 Apr 2019 - 02:23 pm
FILE PHOTO: A supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun is seen in an undated NASA artist's concept illustration. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout/File Photo
No plans to delay livestreams despite NZ massacre: Facebook's Zuckerberg 04 Apr 2019 - 05:36 pm
:FILE PHOTO: Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Viva Tech start-up and technology summit in Paris, France, May 24, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau