The problems keep piling up for Facebook, and it s unclear how long the internet giant will be able to brush them aside as it barrels toward acquiring its next billion users. The world s biggest social network has unwittingly allowed groups backed by the Russian government to target users with ads. That s after it took months to acknowledge its outsized role in influencing the US election by allowing the spread of fake news — though before news emerged that it let advertisers target messages to “Jew-haters.”

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is to invest up to $40 million in privately held British biotech company Immunocore to support its development of immunotherapies for infectious diseases. Oxford-based Immunocore has so far concentrated on developing its T-cell receptor medicines to fight cancer, where it has collaborations with Roche, GlaxoSmithKline , AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly.

One of the lesser talked about announcements from Apple s WWDC event is that High Sierra s Safari will have something called "Intelligent Tracking Prevention," which uses machine learning to identify ad tracking behavior. Specifically, it ll stop you from being tracked by advertisers as you go from site to site, so that you no longer keep seeing an ad for that thing you looked up on Amazon that one time. As you might expect, however, advertisers are not too happy about this, and a group of them have come forward to condemn the company for its "unilateral and heavy-handed approach" to user privacy.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has ordered government agencies to remove products made by Russian company Kaspersky Labs from their computers. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday it was concerned that the cybersecurity firm was susceptible to pressure from Moscow and thus a potential threat to national security.

The European Parliament on Tuesday voted in favor of the "WiFi4EU" scheme, which will finance the creation of up to 8,000 free WiFi hot spots across Europe by 2020. The European Parliament said the Wi-Fi hot spots will be located at centers of public life and public sector bodies, including parks, libraries and hospitals. Financing amounting to 120 million euros ($144 million) will be provided to public bodies on a "first come, first served" basis, and will be distributed in a "geographically balanced manner" with a focus on places with limited connectivity, according to the EU s legislative body.

Egypt’s telecoms operators will begin offering high-speed 4G mobile broadband services in September, the telecoms minister said on Monday. The government had sold four 4G licenses in 2016 as part of a plan to reform the telecoms sector and raise dollars for stretched government finances.

Apple is expected to sell its fanciest iPhone yet for $1,000, crossing into a new financial frontier that will test how much consumers are willing to pay for a device that’s become an indispensable part of modern life. The unveiling of a dramatically redesigned iPhone will likely be the marquee moment Tuesday when Apple hosts its first product event at its new spaceship-like headquarters in Cupertino, California. True to its secretive ways, Apple won’t confirm that it will be introducing a new iPhone, though a financial forecast issued last month telegraphed something significant is in the pipeline.

A day after credit-reporting company Equifax disclosed that “criminals” had stolen vital data about 143 million Americans, it had somehow managed to leave much of the public in the dark about their exposure, how they should protect themselves and what Equifax planned to do for those affected. The breach is unquestionably serious. It exposed crucial pieces of personal data that criminals could use to commit identity theft, from Social Security numbers and birthdates to address histories and legal names.

Microscopic plastic fibers are pouring out of faucets from New York to New Delhi, according to new research by Orb Media, a nonprofit digital newsroom based in Washington. "It s bad; one hears so many things about cancer," Mercedes Noroña, 61, said after learning that a water sample from her home near Quito, Ecuador, contains plastic fibers. "Maybe I m exaggerating - but I m afraid of the things that come in the water."

magine: A five-seat electric jet that can move passengers between Manhattan and JFK Airport in five minutes. That ambitious idea has caught the attention of China’s Tencent (TCEHY), the lead investor in a $90 million fundraising round announced Tuesday by startup Lilium.

Opening a new era in cancer care, US health officials have approved a breakthrough treatment that genetically engineers patients own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy childhood leukemia. The Food and Drug Administration said the approval on Wednesday was historic, the first gene therapy to hit the US market. Made from scratch for every patient, it s one of a wave of “living drugs” under development to fight additional blood cancers and other tumors, too.

North Korea announced on Sunday that it had conducted a nuclear test using an advanced hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, marking departure from its experiments with first generation atomic weapons. But what s the difference between an atomic bomb and the more advanced hydrogen bomb?

E-learning platform, Tyro, has recognized the high demand for private tutoring and the widening gap between formal educational curriculums and labor market needs. The tech group is working on connecting students with qualified instructors through one on one online sessions, with the aim to revamp the tutoring industry in Egypt. Tyro launched a beta platform in November last year, tying students with qualified freelance tutors. Students can freely browse through a selection of qualified instructors viewing their skills, certifications, availability, rates as well as reviews.

Opening a new era in cancer care, US health officials have approved a breakthrough treatment that genetically engineers patients’ own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy childhood leukemia. The Food and Drug Administration said the approval on Wednesday was historic, the first gene therapy to hit the US market. Made from scratch for every patient, it’s one of a wave of “living drugs” under development to fight additional blood cancers and other tumors, too.

The World Bank (WB) approved,Tuesday, to inject $500 million of direct investments in oil and gas projects into Egypt. $100 million of the sum is to be invested by the international Finance Cooperation (IFC). The fund provided by the WB and IFC fosters the international finance institutions and global private sector’s optimistic outlook regarding the future of Egyptian economy, Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Sahr Nasr, stated Tuesday.

Google has a new feature designed to help people suffering from depression. Users in the United States who search for “depression” or “clinical depression” will now be offered a questionnaire to test their depression levels and help determine whether they should seek professional help, Google said in a blog post.

The effects of climate change are partially to blame for a mudslide through a southeastern village that left eight people missing after a massive chunk of rock broke off an Alpine mountainside, Switzerland’s environmental protection office said Monday. Federal Office for the Environment director Marc Chardonnens said by telephone that experts were looking into exact causes for the break-off of rock face that tumbled in a gooey sludge into the village of Bondo last week, including possible tectonic and geological factors as well as climatic ones.

In middle school, Junior Alvarado often struggled with multiplication and earned poor grades in math, so when he started his freshman year at Washington Leadership Academy, a charter high school in the nation’s capital, he fretted that he would lag behind. But his teachers used technology to identify his weak spots, customize a learning plan just for him and coach him through it. This past week, as Alvarado started sophomore geometry, he was more confident in his skills.

Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors, the twin Voyager spacecraft, are carrying sounds and music of our planet ever deeper into the cosmos. Think of them as messages in bottles meant for anyone, or anything, out there. This Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of NASA’s launch of Voyager 2, now almost 11 billion miles distant. It departed from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 20, 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn.

Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can’t use it. Wilson launched the fundraiser last week, tweeting: “If @Twitter executives won’t shut down Trump’s violence and hate, then it’s up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump.” The GoFundMe page for the fundraiser with a billion-dollar goal says Trump’s tweets “damage the country and put people in harm’s way.”