The world s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports that suggested a so-called pause in global warming in recent years.

Egypt ranks towards the bottom of a list of countries for Internet connection quality and speed, according to tests carried out by Speedtest, Akamai Technologies and OpenSignal, the three top agencies measuring Internet quality, with some results showing Internet speeds in Egypt to be slowing down. This is in spite of increases in the number of Internet subscribers and the launch of infrastructure projects to raise Internet quality. The results come at a time when the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has announced its readiness to provide 5G Internet services in the country.

Per Gartner, the world s leading information technology research and advisory company, estimates that cybercrime is expected to cost the world $6tn by 2021, and corporations are spending more money each year on security products and applications, related to protecting customer data and proprietary information. In 2019, worldwide spending on information security products and services is forecasted to grow by 8.7% to $124bn. Mega corporations such as Facebook, Under Armour and Marriott had millions of customer records stolen last year, which has caused significant harm to the companies reputation. Moreover, even small businesses were targeted by cybercriminals. In fact, they were the target of half of the attacks.

Abu Dhabi International Airport announced on Monday activating Super-Fi service that will increase internet upload and download speeds for the travelers at the airport. Super-Fi sees upload and download speeds of up to 200mbps per user, among the fastest airport internet services available in the world. The move comes as part of Abu Dhabi Airports commitment to customer experience and digitalisation strategies. The Super-Fi internet access has been installed and tested throughout the airport s three terminals. It will now provide millions of travelers with improved online connectivity.

German authorities on Tuesday said a 20-year-old hacker had confessed to stealing and leaking private data from hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, because he was “annoyed” by some of their public statements. The young German, who lives with his parents, was taken into custody after police searched the family home in the western state of Hesse on Sunday.

A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing’s ambitions to become a space superpower. The Chang’e-4 probe touched down and sent a photo of the so-called “dark side” of the moon to the Queqiao satellite, which will relay communications to controllers on Earth, China’s national space agency said on its website.

Half of the factories in the industrial cities are “air polluting,” Egypt’s Ministry of Environment said on Sunday, adding that 20 percent of the vehicles whose emissions have been measured are “violators,” as well as 59 percent of the public buses belonging to the Public Transport Authority (PTA). The Ministry of Environment has received about 6,200 complaints of water pollution in various governorates, it said in a report, adding that it is working on controlling air and water pollution, with some plans and procedures having already been implemented.

2018 was a year full of news reports about exposing users personal information of big names in technology industries, either through hackers or third-party developers like what happened in Cambridge Analyticas case, in which the political consulting firm harvested profile information of over 50 million Facebook users. The big tech companies usually have legal agreements to enable users to use their service, most people do not read them however. During Mark Zuckerbergs testimony before Congress over the Cambridge Analyticas scandal, one of the representatives had a printed copy of Facebooks agreement terms to use the service—it was pretty thick. Here is a simple explanation of the information that big tech firms usually collect.

A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the mysterious object in a dark and frigid region of space known as the Kuiper Belt at 12:33 am January 1 (0533 GMT Tuesday).

Spanish travel technology firm Amadeus IT Group signed a cooperation protocol with EG Gate portal to provide a range of logistic and digital services in the fields of e-commerce and tourism via its digital platform. The protocol was signed by Khaled Gad, the general manager of AMADEUS Egypt and Minas Ibrahim, CEO and managing director of EG Gate. This cooperation aims to make AMADEUS’s content available on EG GATE’s platform to attract international tourism to Egypt, in addition to promoting Egyptian tour companies’ content on EG GATE’s platform using the latest technological implements, in the tourism and traveling field. It also targets marketing Egyptian tourism globally via a database of 500,000 international tour companies, which cooperate with AMADEUS.

Japan said Wednesday it is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and will resume commercial whaling next year, sparking criticism from activists and anti-whaling countries including Australia. The announcement comes after Japan failed earlier this year to convince the IWC to allow it to resume commercial whaling. Top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the commercial hunts would be limited to Japan’s territorial waters.

weed out inappropriate content. The US internet watchdog Common Sense says the combination of mature content and privacy risks means users should be at least 16. “Because the age limit is so low, you attract a greater assortment of dangerous characters, and users lying about their age,” Solis said.

Leading mobile messaging application WhatsApp told Ahram Online that the company "cares deeply about the safety our users," after being asked about an advertisement it unrolled in a number of Arab media outlets over the past few weeks. WhatsApp has addressed "security and privacy" in a number of full page ads in Arab newspapers, including Egypt s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper and Akhbar Al-Youm and pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. “WhatsApp cares deeply about the safety of our users and these ads are designed to inform people about ways to protect their account," a WhatsApp spokesperson told Ahram Online on Monday.

The scientific journal Nature published a report saying that Egypt is among the countries with the highest increase in scientific research production in world in 2018, the state-owned al-Ahram newspaper reported on Monday. Emerging economies showed a significant increase in scientific research production for 2018, according to estimates of the publishing services company Clarivate Analytics. Egypt and Pakistan topped the list, where Egypt achieved a rise of 21 percent, while Pakistan’s increase reached 15.9 percent.

The total number of Spotify users reached over 191 million around the world. The company was prompted by the increasing number of internet users and youth under 30-years-old to enter the local market. The app has over 40m songs and 3bn lists. The platform receives revenues through subscriptions and ads. Michael Krause, general manager of Spotify in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), said that the focus on the Egyptian market was due to the growing number of youth under 30-years-old compared to Europe, as well as the increasing number of internet and mobile users.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said it did not give some companies access to people’s data without their permission, after the New York Times reported on Tuesday that the social network allowed some large technology companies greater access to user data. The paper reported that Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without their consent, citing documents from 2017.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off on Thursday after two canceled launches earlier this week due to last-minute technical problems, but poor weather is looming as a potential problem. The rocket will carry a roughly $500 million global positioning system (GPS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin Corp and is due to take off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral shortly after 9 am local time (1400 GMT).

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google of being biased in favor of opposition Democrats, a day after a report for the Senate revealed Russian agents had used social media in an attempt to sway the 2016 election in Trump’s favor. “Facebook, Twitter and Google are so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous!” Trump tweeted. “Twitter, in fact, has made it much more difficult for people to join @realDonaldTrump. They have removed many names & greatly slowed the level and speed of increase. They have acknowledged-done NOTHING!”

We have long known that there is life under our feet, but now scientists have actually measured it. Visible only through a microscope, unicellular microbes that live underneath the Earth s surface account for between 15 and 23 billion tons of carbon — that s hundreds of times more than the amount of carbon in all the humans on Earth combined. This new knowledge is the result of a 10-year international collaboration initiative of the Deep Carbon Observatory.

Nations on Sunday struck a deal to breathe life into the landmark 2015 Paris climate treaty after marathon UN talks that failed to match the ambition the world’s most vulnerable countries need to avert dangerous global warming. Delegates from nearly 200 states finalized a common rule book designed to deliver the Paris goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne is full of spaceship and rocket models. Walls are covered in logos of different space missions and pictures of the Europeans who made it into space. A huge, nearly 10-meter wide model of the International Space Station (ISS) hangs above our heads as we are sitting and waiting for the video call with German astronaut Alexander Gerst. He is the first German Commander of the ISS and has been in space for over than six months now. Eight days from now, he ll return to Earth together with two other astronauts. Just in time for Christmas! With all these models and pictures, the foyer of the DLR feels more like a museum than a conference room. More than a dozen journalists and around 50 employees closely observe the screen hanging under the ISS model waiting for the signal from space. Cameras are ready, questions prepared. The youngest participant of the press conference, a 10-year-old reporter from German TV channel Sat.1 sits in the front row.