US' CYBER WEAPON WAS CLONED & USED BY CHINESE SPIES FOR YEARS: REPORT

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• As per the report, the US version of the tool was cloned by a Chinese-affiliated attack group labelled APT 31 or Zirconium in the year 2014

• The Check Point said in a blog post that “This means that a Chinese-affiliated group used an Equation Grou...

MEDIATEK RELEASES NEW 5G CHIP TO CAPITALIZE THE US MARKET

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• MediaTek is one of the leading modem chip suppliers across the globe along with Qualcomm Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

• MediaTek currently supplies chip to smartphone makers like LG Electronics Inc. and Xiaomi Corp

• MediaTek on Mond...

US IGNITE TO LAUNCH TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROGRAM FOR 5G LIVING LAB AT MARINE CORPS AIR STATION

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• This initiative worth $4 million has been funded with the help of the Office of Naval Research and Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific)

• One of the first project will be using the Verizon's Ultra Wideband network with the help of ...

U.S. XPRESS TO INVEST IN TuSimple, A SELF-DRIVING TECH COMPANY

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• U.S. Xpress has also started actively testing the technology on select shipping lanes, and the President and CEO Eric Fuller is now part of TuSimple’s Executive Advisory Board

• CEO of TuSimple, Cheng Lu said U.S. Xpress has been a valuable partner...

GOOGLE ASKS US JUDGE TO TRANSFER ANTITRUST LAWSUIT FILED BY STATES TO CALIFORNIA

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• Google has asked a US judge in Texas to transfer an antitrust lawsuit filed by 10 states to a court in California

• The first case that alleged it monopolised online display advertising was filed in the month of May by an advertiser, and it was followed ...

U.S. ASKS AUSTRALIA TO SUSPEND PROPOSED LAWS THAT FORCE GOOGLE, FACEBOOK PAY FOR NEWS

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• Trump administration has asked the Australian government to scrap proposed laws that force social media giant Facebook Inc and Google to pay for news sourced from local media

• As per the proposed law, Google and Facebook will be subject to mandatory pri...

GOOGLE HALTS POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS IN U.S. BEFORE BIDEN’S INAUGURATION

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• The Alphabet-owned company had lifted the temporary ban on election-related advertisements on December 10, 2020, which took effect following polls closed in the US presidential election

• Google in a statement said “it would temporarily pause all p...

SOLARWINDS HACKERS ARE IMPACTING GOVERNMENTS: US CYBERSECURITY AGENCY

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• The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in a statement said the hacking campaign was impacting enterprise networks across federal, state, and local governments

• Federal agencies like the Commerce Department, the Treasury Department a...

MICROSOFT WINS LEGAL BATTLE TO NOTIFY CLOUD CLIENT OF U.S. DATA INVESTIGATION

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• Microsoft Corp has won a legal battle to notify a client that federal prosecutors had demanded its email account information be turned over as part of a government investigation

• The subpoena on July 14 was inclusive of a secrecy provision that barred M...

U.S. ARMY CONDUCT TRIALS OF AUGMENTED GOGGLES FOR COMBAT DOGS

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• Military dogs are specifically trained to search for bombs and other hazards, and to execute this they need instructions

• Courtesy of these goggles, the dogs will be able to see a visual indicator that they can be trained to follow, directing them to a ...

US, GREECE JOIN HANDS TO PROMOTE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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• The U.S.- Greece Science and Technology Agreement was officially signed in Thessaloniki, Greece on Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Greece's Minister of Development and Investments Adonis Georgiadis

• This official signing ceremon...

US COURT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TRUMP'S MOVE BANNING TikTok FROM APP STORES

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• As per the order issued by the Commerce Department, Google and Apple were asked to remove Tiktok owned by Chinese company ByteDance from their respective app stores

• The US district judge Carl Nichol granted a preliminary order to allow the app to remai...

THE U.S. DoE TO PROVIDE $16 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR RESEARCH IN MACHINE LEARNING & AI

According to the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to provide $16 million in funding for advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). According to the reports, two sets of projects will...