Facebook and Microsoft team up to build undersea internet cable over 4,000 miles long

Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to build a giant undersea internet cable from the US to Spain to help them move vast amounts of data across the world more easily.

The fibre optic cable, named Marea (that's Spanish for 'tide'), will stretch from Virginia on America's east coast to Bilbao, in the Basque Country, across around 4,100 miles of seabed.

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Google's victory over Oracle: A win for developers

The ruling sets a high bar for the level of "creativity" that APIs may need to show before they

deserve protection under copyright law. When the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2014 that Java APIs deserved copyright protection, siding with Oracle over Google in the matter, it shocked many in the developer community and the tech industry at large. Some said that the ruling would have a "chilling effect" on software development, but that prediction didn't really materialize.

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What Do You Think Is The Impact Of Technological Advancements In Healthcare Industry?

Technology has brought about massive changes in every aspect of human life and healthcare is no exception. With the penetration of technology in the healthcare industry, there has been significant reduction in barriers to health care access and allowed major improvement in the understanding of disease patterns.

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Mars is emerging from an ice age that ended about 400,000 years ago

Mars is emerging from an ice age, according to a new study. Studying the Martian climate and how it changes over time can help scientists better plan future missions to Mars and even understand climate change here on Earth, the study authors say.

Models had already predicted that Mars underwent several rounds of ice ages in the past, but little physical measurements ever confirmed those predictions. Today’s study,

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SpaceX planning to launch Dragon supply ship to ISS in mid-July

On Tuesday, a SpaceX official said that in mid-July, the company will get its next chance to return a Falcon 9 booster to landing at Cape Canaveral, as it is looking forward to launch a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station (ISS). Prior to then, Falcon 9 flights will deploy communications satellites into high-altitude geostationary transfer orbits, a place that is quite high and demand excessive speed for the initial stage to reverse course and go in the direction of landing on shore. On Monday, NASA announced that SpaceX’s next cargo run to the ISS won’t get launched before July 16. The position of the orbit of the space station that day will decide the launch time around

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Battery life to get five times better

Scientists have discovered a new catalyst material which may lead to cellphone and car batteries that last five times longer than current ones. Kyeongjae Cho from University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) in the US has found the catalyst materials for lithium-air batteries that jumpstart efforts at expanding battery capacity. “There is huge promise in lithium-air batteries. However, despite the aggressive research being done by groups all over the world, those promises are not being delivered in real life,” said Cho. “So this is very exciting progress. Hopefully, this discovery will revitalise research in this area and create momentum for further development,” he said.

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Intels pledges sustained expansion agenda in Nigeria

Despite various economic challenges especially in the oil and gas sector, Intels Nigeria Limited, concessionaire of Onne Free Trade Zone (OFTZ) has pledged to sustain ongoing expansion scheme. The resolve, according to the company, is expected to impact positively on its operations and that of 150 firms operating within the maritime facility. Providing update of its operations, Intels explained that critical infrastructure such as world acclaimed Liebherr crane has either been deployed or enhanced inline with global standard

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Sun-powered plane continues U.S. journey

The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane took off fromDayton, Ohio, early Wednesday on its fourth flight across the U.S. mainland as it continues its around-the-world tour. The aircraft will make its way to Allentown, Pa., where it will land at Lehigh Valley Airport late Wednesday after a journey that's expected to last about 17 hours. Pilots and Swiss adventurerers André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard set out to circumnavigate the globe last year in the plane without using fuel or spewing polluting emissions

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Users Beware: WhatsApp Gold Upgrade Is Nothing But A Scam

Users probably feel safe when sending or receiving text, photo and video messages and sharing documents in WhatsApp thanks to the app's end-to-end encryption policy. However, that doesn't mean you are free from getting fooled on the platform when it comes to scams.

You might have received a message in your inbox inviting you to upgrade your account to the exclusive premium version of the popular messaging app called "WhatsApp Gold." However, users should beware: whatever you do, do not

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