Edward Snowden But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today Ewen MacAskillThu 8 Jun 2023 Edward Snowden has warned that surveillance technology is so much more advanced and […]
Pervez Hoodbhoy Updated 02 Jan 2021 The writer is an Islamabad-based physicist and writer. EXCEPT for some defiant holdouts, most Muslims have come to accept the printing press, loudspeaker, weather […]
Oct 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – AHMAD Y. MAJDHOUBEH It goes without saying that embedding technology in education is a must these days, for various reasons. One reason is that […]
CORNELIA MEYER September 08, 2018 There was a sense of déjà vu when Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey testified before the US Senate […]
Aug 02,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ken Hu SHENZHEN — At a telecommunications conference hosted by Huawei late last year, I told a group of senior executives looking for growth […]
By Matthew Allen JULY 14, 2017 (Keystone) The threat of cyber attacks like WannaCry and Petya are creating lucrative opportunities for specialists looking to work in the financial sector. Top candidates for a job as a cyber security expert can “easily” command salaries of CHF1 million ($1 […]
By Celia Luterbacher MAR 7, 2017 – It’s not yet clear whether, with the rise of artificial intelligence, workforce automation will lead to an overall rise or drop in human job creation. If death and taxes are the only two things that a person can count on, should the latter […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 17 December 2012 Transport Minister Jabara Al-Seraisry said the design work on the Jeddah metro project is almost complete. “The designing of a light train project […]
The current generation of school-age students spend more time online than any other. But what happens when they are asked to live and interact without mobile phones and with limited internet for a few months? At the Mountain School in rural Vermont, 45 students from across the US find out […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON: The “Next Eleven,” which include Pakistan, will collectively overtake EU-27 in global power by 2030, says a US government report released on Monday. Although America’s influence will reduce, it will remain the “first among equals,” adds the report prepared by the US National Intelligence Council with inputs from […]
Source: Fast Company BY JOSH ALLAN DYKSTRA Compared to previous generations, Millennials seem to have some very different habits that have taken both established companies and small businesses by surprise. One of these is that Generation Y doesn’t seem to enjoy purchasing things. The Atlantic’s article “Why Don’t Young Americans Buy […]
Alex Knapp, Forbes Staff The Chandra X-Ray Observatory announced that it’s observed something unprecedented: a supermassive black hole being ejected from its own galaxy at speeds of millions of miles per hour. The evidence suggests that the ejection was caused when the black hole collided with the supermassive black hole […]
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Source: NY Times. Fueled by an accelerating move to cloud computing, and by a boom in associated telecommunications services, worldwide information technology spending is increasing somewhat faster than expected, according to industry analysts at Gartner. Over all, people will spend $3.6 trillion on information technology in 2012, the research firm […]
Source: OnIslam.net An Egyptian physics student has successfully created a new propulsion device that could accelerate space probes and artificial satellites through quantum physics and chemical reactions instead of the current radioactive-based jets and ordinary rocket engines. Aisha Mustafa, who has entered the active research area of spacecraft propulsion by […]
Source: NY Times. A Web site that promised to connect people with much-needed jobs during the recession was actually a means to steal the applicants’ personal information in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The site, http://www.jobcentral2.net, listed nonexistent jobs and used applicants’ identities to […]
Source: NY Times At 11, Alan Aldawas fascinated by the colorful, translucent undulations of a burning flame. So he asked his teacher, “What is a flame?” “It’s oxidation,” she said. The answer dumbfounded him. A flame is indeed oxidation, a type of chemical reaction that occurs when something burns. But […]