Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are used by millions of Russians to get around internet controls and censorship, Russia's digital minister said. In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia's "great crackdown", the authorities have repeatedly blocked mo
NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts toward the moon in over 53 years with its second Artemis mission, a critical test flight in humanity's broader lunar goals as the US races to reassert leadership in space faced with growing competition from China. Three US and one Canadian a
Britain said it had issued a 390,000 pound ($516,000) penalty to Ireland-based Apple Distribution International Limited, a subsidiary of the US-based technology giant, over a breach of its Russia sanctions. A notice from the government on Monday said ADI had made funds available to a designated pe
NASA’s Artemis II mission is expected to last about 10 days, sending four astronauts on a high-speed journey around the moon and back in the first crewed lunar mission since the Apollo era. Artemis II is designed to pave the way for future missions aimed at returning astronauts to the
The four astronauts selected for NASA's Artemis II mission were due to arrive in Florida on Friday, entering the final phase of preparations for the first crewed journey toward the Moon in more than five decades. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian a
Jurors in the first two trials in the US from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over harm to children have found Meta (META.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google liable, potentially teeing up an appeals fight that could reshape how US law shields tech companies from lawsuits. I
Namibia declined licence applications from Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink for failing to satisfy ownership and compliance criteria, the country's telecommunications regulator said on Wednesday. A notice in the Southern African country's government gazette on Monday showed Starlin
An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has a problem with an antenna so it will have to be manually docked ‌when it reaches the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation said in a statement. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket launched the Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft
Russia may develop a nuclear power station on the Moon within the next five to seven years, Mikhail Kovalchuk, president of Russia's Kurchatov Institute, said Thursday. Kovalchuk made the remarks while attending a meeting of the government of the Leningrad region to discuss issues of scientific an
A powerful software exploit capable of penetrating and stealing information from potentially hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones was planted on dozens of websites in Ukraine in recent weeks, researchers said on Wednesday. The discovery marks the second time this month that researchers have found
