Millions of Australians have been left without mobile and internet service after telecommunications giant Optus was hit by an outage. Optus is the country's second-largest provider, with more than 10 million individual customers and hundr...
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Germany's transport network will be at a near standstill on Monday as two of the country's largest unions strike. Staff at airports, ports, railways, buses and subways walked out shortly after midnight for a 24-hour stoppage. Uni...
Utah has become the first US state to require social media firms get parental consent for children to use their apps and verify users are at least 18. The governor said he signed the two sweeping measures to protect young people in the st...
A yoga company in Toronto, Canada, has come up with an inventive way to allow people to return to group practice. LMNTS Studio has set up a series of bubbles in its outdoor pop-up studio for a few weeks. Canada has reported some 100,000 cas...
At least 11 states are reporting increases in new COVID-19 cases, including Arkansas, which is apparently going through a second peak....
The death rates in Philadelphia and St Louis during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic demonstrate the importance of social distancing (Credit: National Academy of Sciences USA 2007) Countries around the world are implementing measu...
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Nearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules. The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phon...
The government has approved the supply of equipment by Chinese telecoms firm Huawei for the UK's new 5G data network despite warnings of a security risk. There is no formal confirmation but the Daily Telegraph says Huawei will buil...
Google+, the search giant's failed social network, will finally be laid to rest on Tuesday morning. Launched in 2011 and competing with Facebook and Twitter, it was Google's fourth attempt at a social network. But the platform failed to win...
China's online community has fallen hard for a loyal elderly dog, who waits patiently outside a station every day for his owner to come home from work. The popular Pear Video website shared a video of Xiongxiong - Little Bear - in ...
Christmashas always been a time for festive frocks, triumphant touches and holly-jolly accessories, but the social media craze this holiday season is crazy Christmas hair in all shapes and forms. From Christmas tree hair tall enough to make Ci...
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Aaron Sorkin, Oscar-winning writer of "The Social Network," may pen a biopic(名人传记电影片) about the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Speaking at the P.S. Arts Express Yourself 2011 event in ...
Prereading question: Google would like to share the cake in network service. What advantages and disadvantages does it have? 29 June 2011 Last updated at 01:50 GMT Online search giant Google has lau...
Ruth Hins owns a grocery store(杂货店) and bakery(面包店) in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Cantagalo, where she used to live. She is one of 35.5 million Brazilians who have moved from humble beginnings into the middle class since 2003. Another 20 m...
The annual Social Trends study published by the Office for National Statistics presents a revealing portrait of the way we live now. Education More three-year-olds than ever are going to school The age at which youngsters are first sent to sch...