This weekend’s UFC event in Las Vegas will take place behind closed doors This weekend’s UFC fight card in Las Vegas will take place without fans or media, and headliner Mackenzie Dern claims this is because Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has “rented out” the entire venue – a suggestion which promotion chief Dana White has dismissed […]

BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. LARGE AMPHIBIOUS AIRCRAFT China’s independently-developed AG600 large amphibious aircraft has gained significant progress by completing critical flight tests and getting the first batch of purchase agreements. The AG600M aircraft, a full-configuration firefighting model belonging to the AG600 […]

Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! As a cybersecurity professional, Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an opportunity for me to reach out and remind people of the things that everyone can do to protect themselves from being a victim of cybercrime. October will be the 19th observance of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which was […]

The pandemic taught us that a lot of things can happen efficiently from a distance. It helped normalize working remotely, delivering groceries and even contactless delivery. I’m grateful for all of these things in my busy life even when I’m not trying to “flatten the curve.” However, recently I was reminded of what […]

BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. SATELLITE LAUNCH China on Sunday launched a Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket to place two satellites in space. The pair of satellites, Shiyan-14 and Shiyan-15, were lifted at 6:55 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in […]

Washington [US], September 24 (ANI): Tesla CEO Elon Musk has deployed his satellite-based ‘Starlink’ service in Iran amid widespread protests in the country following which authorities had restricted internet access. Iranian authorities had cut off internet access for many of its citizens on Wednesday amid widespread protests over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa […]

BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — The gender gap in China’s science and technology sector is narrowing, and more measures are needed to support female talent in playing a greater role in sci-tech innovation, an expert said. By the end of 2020, China had a sci-tech human resource reservoir of over 112 million people, more than […]

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced 1.27 billion U.S. dollars of commitments to meet global goals in the fields of health and development. In particular, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged 912 million U.S. dollars to help end HIV, tuberculosis and malaria by 2030 and […]

Experts say the pivot into the Metaverse has cost the tech magnate dearly The fortune of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dropped by $71 billion so far this year, Bloomberg reported on Monday. It noted that the decline was the biggest among the world’s wealthiest individuals tracked by the agency’s Billionaires Index. The drop is […]

Washington [US], September 20 (ANI): Chemists find a rare genetic pathway that helps mammalian cells become drug factories or sensors by synthesizing noncanonical amino acids. The clues came from an uncommon bird. The species of bird is the only one known to naturally produce an enzyme able to generate a noncanonical amino acid; that is, […]