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China's cyberspace regulator said on Friday that it has cracked down on counterfeit investment platforms, as part of the country's campaign to combat such telecom network crime.The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it has investigated and cracked down on some 42,000 counterfeit apps since the start of this year, and incorporated them into the national fraud-related database, according to a statement on its website.The regulator added it found multiple cases involving website spoofing as scammers created…

Starting today, small phone carriers must implement a special caller ID authentication tool that will help identify robocallers, the Federal Communication Commission announced. Known as STIR/SHAKEN, major carriers such as AT&T and Verizon — due to an FCC rule adopted in 2020 — have had the same tool in place since last year. The agency initially gave small carriers a more generous deadline of June 2023 to adopt STIR/SHAKEN, but opted to fast-track adoption because it discovered "a subset of these small voice service…

The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will ban the sale of Juul e-cigarettes in the U.S.The decision is part of the agency's broader review of the vaping industry following years of pressure from politicians and public health groups to regulate the segment as strictly as other tobacco products after vaping became more common among high schoolers.Juul sought approval from the FDA for its vaping device and tobacco- and menthol-flavored pods, which are available at 5% and 3% nicotine strengths. Already,…

Image used for representation.The Delhi International Airport improved its ranking is now the ranks 37th amongst the top 50 airports in the worldPTI Last Updated:June 18, 2022, 17:51 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport has been adjudged the best in India and South Asia for the fourth consecutive year at the Skytrax World Airport Awards, an official statement said on Friday. The airport also improved its overall ranking to 37th from last year's 45th position, said the statement from GMR which…

If you’re in the mood for an action-packed blockbuster sequel that brings back iconic familiar faces and introduces engaging newcomers in equal measure, is packed full of nods, winks, and callbacks to a classic original while still telling a worthy story of its own, and deftly balances heartfelt emotional dynamics and timely themes with epic Hollywood spectacle, then go and see Top Gun: Maverick, because Jurassic World Dominion isn’t that movie, as hard as it tries to be. Chris Pratt described the sixth installment in…

Stranger Things has cracked the all-time Netflix top five after an impressive 12 days.It’s not the first of the streaming service’s show to earn the feat this year – Bridgerton’s second season still stands tall as the most-streamed new show of 2022.If Stranger Things season four wants to surpass Bridgerton’s latest season, it’ll need to rack up another 30 million hours of views.This is how Netflix measures its views – in total number of hours subscribers have spent watching a specific title – and, in recent years, the…

The Curiosity rover has found an outstanding rock formation piercing the alien landscape of Mars. Amongst the shallow sands and boulders of the Gale Crater rise several twisting towers of rock – the spikes of sediment look almost like frozen streams of water poured from an invisible jug in the sky.  In reality, experts say the columns were probably created from cement-like substances that once filled ancient cracks of bedrock. As the softer rock gradually eroded away, the snaking streams of compact material remained…

Jennifer Aniston has appeared on the final episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show and helped the host to say adieu after 19 seasons which aired on May 26. It was truly a full-circle moment as Aniston was DeGeneres’ first guest when the show debuted back in 2003. “Oh, where do 19 years go?” Aniston, who has appeared on the program 20 times, asked. “I don’t understand.” Aniston knows how emotional these series finales can be, and DeGeneres asked how she dealt with the ending of Friends after its 10-year run. “Well, I got a…

The war movie has proven to be one of the most reliably popular genres on Netflix, whether we’re talking about action-packed epics or harrowing dramas, but none of them are as bizarre as Operation Mincemeat, which weaves a tale so fantastical that you’d scarcely even believe it was true. Unfolding in 1943, veteran filmmaker John Madden’s latest tells the incredible tale of how the British conspired to trick the Nazis into believing an invasion of Greece was imminent by planting false documents on a dead body and having…

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections on the sun are caused by “magnetic reconnection”—when magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, rejoin, and snap apart, creating explosions that release massive amounts of energy. Credit: NASA Conceptual Image LaboratoryIn just minutes, a flare on the Sun can release enough energy to power the entire world for 20,000 years. These solar flares are triggered by an explosive process known as magnetic reconnection, and scientists have spent the last half-century attempting to…