Here's a trick question: where is Europe's spaceport? Answer: It's in Europe. Right? Well, yes. But actually … not quite. You see, "Europe's spaceport," as it is indeed sold, is in French Guiana. Technically, that is in Europe. French Guiana is a French colony, making it a European, or EU, jurisdiction - which is great if you happen to be there on a European cell phone plan because EU Roaming applies. Yeah! But geographically, the Guiana Space Centre is in South America, right next door to Brazil.

In November, Ahmed Zaki, an Egyptian journalist based in London, wrote a post on his Facebook account that went viral telling of how a private conversation with a friend resulted in him receiving online ads pertaining to his conversation. According to Zaki, he and his friend were speaking of a rare disease that his friend had, after which he found ads promoting medicines to treat this specific disease on his Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram accounts. Zaki believes his conversation was recorded using his phone's microphones. In January 2016, Zaki posted about a tablet he bought from online shopping company Amazon.

Details about the new anniversary iPhone are starting to emerge, and here's a big one: The price is likely to start at about $1,000. Following independent reports for Nikkei, FastCompany and famed Apple analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, Goldman Sachs has become the fourth major source to state the so-called iPhone 8 will be the most expensive phone Apple has ever made, Forbes reports.

A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm’s AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country. In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China’s world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) chief executive Eric Schmidt.

In celebration of the World Information Society Day, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) issued a statement regarding the current local status of communication technology. The press release aimed at focusing on the importance of information and communication technologies (ICT); meanwhile, it also monitored the evident increase in general awareness regarding the benefits of ICT. The World Information Society Day is celebrated on 17 May of each year on the occasion of the establishment the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The global day was adopted by the UN General Assembly in March 2006.

Egypt has prepared the wireless frequencies needed for telecommunications companies in the country to deliver 4G mobile broadband networks, a key step in the long-delayed introduction of high speed telecoms services. “We are now ready to hand over 4G mobile frequencies to any company that is ready … we are waiting for companies to finish preparations to receive the frequencies,” Communications Minister Yasser al-Qady told Reuters on Sunday.

First, we'd better explain bitcoin. It's a crypto-what? Bitcoin is what's called a cryptocurrency. There are pictures of bitcoin, but they don't physically exist. You couldn't bite on one to test its value, as you might if you were a cartoon cowboy. The coins are "mined" using computers, and yet they don't get spat out like the winnings at a casino. They are data, strings of code. The "crypto" in cryptocurrency refers to the use of cryptography to secure a currency and protect the privacy of those who use it. If you're in law enforcement, protecting privacy is good and bad - bad when it concerns criminals like ransomware hackers. After all, you'd want to bring them to book, but you can't if you don't know their identities. Fortunately, cryptocurrencies, as with most technologies, are imperfect. Cryptography is often used to keep secrets. But when it comes to bitcoin, it's more about transparency, making every transaction traceable. It's one reason why governments love cryptocurrencies. They would like to adopt some of the underlying technology in everyday financial operations. But governments also loath cryptocurrencies. While the transactions are traceable, the people making the transactions might not be - they may hide behind fake names or use sophisticated digital clearing houses to wash dodgy earnings.

Cyber security researchers have found evidence they say could link North Korea with the WannaCry cyber attack that has infected more than 300,000 computers worldwide as global authorities scrambled to prevent hackers from spreading new versions of the virus. A researcher from South Korea’s Hauri Labs said on Tuesday their own findings matched those of Symantec (SYMC.O) and Kaspersky Lab, who said on Monday that some code in an earlier version of the WannaCry software had also appeared in programs used by the Lazarus Group, identified by some researchers as a North Korea-run hacking operation.

An IP address is like a fingerprint. When you browse the internet or send emails, you leave your IP address like smudges on a glass door. The question is whether it's acceptable for Germany's federal authorities to register and store IP addresses belonging to all the people who visit their websites. The German Federal Court (BGH) will rule on that question on Tuesday (16.4.2017). Patrick Beyer, a lawyer and member of the Pirate Party in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, sued the federal government in early 2008.

After making a first version available to developers at the end of March 2017, Google is gearing up to offer owners of Nexus (latest generations) and Pixel devices a first beta edition of the upcoming version of its Android mobile operating system.

Music lovers by-and-large agree that there is nothing that can trump the sound of the original instruments built by Antonio Giacomo Stradivari in the late 17th and early 18th century in the Italian town of Cremona. Just over 600 original Stradivarius violins still exist. The master also built numerous violoncellos and violas besides guitars and harps. People have researched and speculated, trying to find out what makes the special tonal qualities of a Stradivarius. There are ample possible explanations: is it, for instance, the special quality of the wood? The trees which the master used for his wood grew during a small ice age in the decades before Stradivari was born. The growth rings in the wood were narrower and the fabric of the wood was denser than in later years as a result.

Are these good times for astrophysics and space exploration? You've spoken about President Kennedy's support for the Apollo mission and that when Nixon cut the funding, the mission was dead. And now President Trump has just recently signed new legislation in support of NASA. Trump says he wants the US to be the first on Mars and that NASA should continue its work. How confident do you feel about that? J. Richard Gott: Time will tell. Realize that I saw Apollo 11 take off. I went to see it, and it was the most amazing thing. Now if you had asked people in 1969 when we would be landing on Mars, they would have all said 1985. 1985! And [Wernher] von Braun had plans to land astronauts on Mars by 1982. Nixon cancelled the program after it landed on the moon; he just cut it off.

All we've got right now is a series of questions. So let's start with what we know. Professor Stephen Hawking, a scientist who has taken in his dotage to making regular fear-inducing pronouncements on the future of human existence, says we have 100 years to leave Earth. That's if artificial intelligence doesn't get us first.

Facebook has launched a British newspaper advertising campaign to warn users of the dangers of fake news, in the latest drive by the social media giant to tackle malicious information ahead of a national election. Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

When you purchase a Samsung smartphone and login to your Samsung account on the device you are sent a 30 percent coupon code to purchase an accessory priced at $59.99 or less. I used mine to buy the Galaxy S8 Plus keyboard cover, priced at $59.99 ($42 with 30 percent coupon).

Schultz is professor of neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and has a graduate degree in medicine from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. At Cambridge, Schultz and his colleagues are researching how "rapid, global, evaluative and supervising neural signals may play a role in decision-making and choice behavior." The Danish Lundbeck Foundation have awarded the Brain Prize to Schultz, Peter Dayan and Ray Dolan this year. The award comes with one million Euros in prize money, which the three researchers will share. Schultz, Dayan and Dolan received the prize, because their multidisciplinary work on how learning is related to reward in the human brain is vital for understanding disorders in decision-making.

They are kept deep in the archive of the Max Planck Society in Munich - human brain specimens, elaborately prepared and neatly labeled. Some of the brain specimens belong to Nazi victims. They were murdered because they were mentally ill or disabled and considered "unworthy of life," according to Hitler. About 300,000 people including children were killed in the Nazi's so-called "euthanasia program, T4." But the victims' brains were preserved.

Cheers erupted from SpaceX mission control as one of its Falcon 9 rockets - carrying a classified payload known only as NROL-76 - successfully launched from Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida on Monday. It was the first time the aerospace manufacturing company has launched a rocket for the US military - carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, which makes and operates spy satellites for the United States. No details were divulged about the satellite after the launch. Instead, SpaceX focused its webcast on the landing of its first-stage booster.

Mercedes wants to serve as your digital middle man in the sharing economy. Following a successful four-month pilot scheme, the world's leading luxury automotive marque is officially rolling out a new app called Croove, initially in Berlin, that will let anyone rent out their car to anyone. The idea is simple. If you have a car, regardless of make and model and you don't need it all of the time, you can upload it onto the Croove platform alongside what you deem a suitable rental fee.

Samsung and Apple maintained their leadership in the smartphone market in early 2017 while Chinese-based Huawei's strong growth cemented its number three position, a market tracker said Thursday.

At the Hanover Fair, robots and humans are at the center of industrial activity. We're to be collaborators now. The question is: can we ever learn to love robots? DW's Zulfikar Abbany finds a line still clearly drawn. Picture the scene: on the left there's a huge Kawasaki robot housed in a glass cage and on the right, outside and looking in, are two ordinary people, a woman and a man, middle-aged. The woman has shortish grey hair and a bewildered look; the man has long grey hair and a bewildered look. Perhaps they are hippies, the kind who survived and now exist with one foot in the mainstream and another somewhere between here - the 2017 Hanover Fair - and some recurring trip. In any event, they are standing there, observing this huge automated thing, and talking quietly amongst themselves about our human experience with robots.