The first manned space mission to the International Space Station since an unprecedented accident in October, which raised concerns about Moscow’s Soviet-designed spacecraft, will launch on Monday. Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency brushed aside any possible safety concerns, saying risk was just part of the job.

With the direst warnings yet of impending environmental disaster still ringing in their ears, representatives from nearly 200 nations gather Sunday in Poland to firm up their plan to prevent catastrophic climate change. The UN climate summit comes at a crucial juncture in mankind s response to planetary warming. The smaller, poorer nations that will bare its devastating brunt are pushing for richer states to make good on the promises they made in the 2015 Paris agreement.

Digital giants led by Google, Facebook and Amazon have warned Australia against passing a “fundamentally flawed” law allowing security services to spy on encrypted communications among suspected criminals and terrorists. In a submission sent to parliament this week and made available to AFP Thursday, the Digital Industry Group Inc (DIGI) said the legislation proposed by Australia’s government would undermine rather than enhance the nation’s security.

The Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically-edited babies said Wednesday the trial had been paused, following an international outcry over the highly controversial procedure. He Jiankui defended his work in front of a packed Hong Kong biomedical conference, saying he had successfully altered the DNA of twin girls born to an HIV-positive father, an apparent medical first.

Cheers and applause erupted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a waist-high unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on Mars, capping a nearly seven-year journey from design to launch to landing. The dramatic arrival of the $993 million spacecraft — designed to listen for quakes and tremors as a way to unveil the Red Planet’s inner mysteries, how it formed billions of years ago and, by extension, how other rocky planets like Earth took shape — marked the eighth successful landing on Mars in NASA’s history.

A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world s first gene-edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. A US scientist said he took part in the work in China, but this kind of gene editing is banned in the United States because the DNA changes can pass to future generations and it risks harming other genes. Many mainstream scientists think it s too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation.

The British Parliament has obtained a set of internal Facebook documents the social media giant has fought for months to stop from being made public, according to Facebook and a lawyer involved in a suit against the company. The cache of documents, some of which may include correspondences between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company executives, stem from a lawsuit in California that outlines a litany of allegations against Facebook, including claims about the company s alleged disregard for user privacy and the claim that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg devised a scheme that forced Facebook s rivals, or potential rivals, out of business.

A pair of tiny experimental satellites trailing NASA s InSight spacecraft all the way to Mars face their biggest test yet. Their mission: Broadcast immediate news, good or bad, of InSight s plunge through the Martian atmosphere on Monday. Named WALL-E and EVE after the main characters in the 2008 animated movie, the twin CubeSats will pass within a few thousand miles (kilometers) of Mars as the lander attempts its dicey touchdown. If these pipsqueaks manage to relay InSight s radio signals to ground controllers nearly 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) away, we ll know within minutes whether the spacecraft landed safely.

Embattled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday he has no plans to resign, sounding defiant after a rough year for the social platform. “That’s not the plan,” Zuckerberg told CNN Business when asked if he would consider stepping down as chairman.

Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts that new regulations of tech companies and social networks to protect personal data are “inevitable.” In an interview with news website Axios being broadcast Sunday on HBO television, Cook said he expected the US Congress would take up the matter.

Egyptian women are excelling in numerous fields. Scientists Marwa Balaha, Nuha Mustafa and Amira Al-Yathebi are just another proof of that. The three Egyptians earned awards by L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science, for their achievements in the field, joining other notable women from all around the world.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Tuesday is expected to unveil updates to its Mac computers and iPads that include facial recognition features that have been available in the iPhone lineup at an event in Brooklyn. Analysts expect a new versions of Apple s iPad Pro, its higher-end tablet computer that competes with the Microsoft Surface, with thinner bezels and more screen space, along with the face unlock system found on Apple s newer iPhones. They also expect updates to the firm s Mac lineup such as redesigned MacBook Air, Apple s $999 entry-level laptop. Apple introduced new iPhones and Apple Watches last month, but the older product lines accounted for $45 billion in sales in the most recent fiscal quarter. In comparison, iPhones brought in revenue of $141.3 billion. “They really wanted to show the world they haven t forgotten about the iPad and the Mac,” said Mika Kitagawa, a senior principal research analyst at Gartner.

People who forgo breakfast also tend to have an unhealthy diet throughout the day. Perhaps they snack on something sweet to stave off the hunger, or they may be more inclined to smoke than someone whose stomach is busy digesting whole-grain bread or cereal. That s one of the conclusions from a new epidemiological study led by Sabrina Schlesinger of the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), and published in theThe Journal of Nutrition.

Oil changed the world in the 1900s. It drove cars, it drove the whole chemical industry” said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, adding that “Data, I look at it as the new oil. It s going to change most industries across the board.” Data is the latest commodity, spawns a lucrative, booming industry, prompting antitrust regulators to intervene to restrain those who control its flow. One can argue that, just few years shy from a century ago, control of oil was a key factor in who won World War II. In this day and age, similar concerns are being raised by the giants who deal in data, the oil of the digital era. These tech-titans—Alphabet (Google s parent company), Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft—look invincible.

Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4×4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits its instructions. Around 9:30 Mars time, a message arrives from California, where it was sent 15 minutes earlier.

Everybody makes mistakes. But in some work environments, like medicine, mistakes can be deadly. That s why more and more medical personnel are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help reduce the rate of error. Although, many experienced doctors are skeptical about using AI in medicine, researchers around the globe are working on new ways to apply it. The options are diverse — and in some cases rather peculiar. Read more: Artificial intelligence, or the end of the world as we know it

Mohamed Okasha, managing director of Fawry e-payments, said that the company injected EGP 90m last year to improve the efficiency of its technological structure, to guarantee the quality of its electronic payment services which it provides. I a press statement, Okasha announced that Fawry s network sees about 2m e-payment transactions, while the new development will help Fawry to reach 6m transactions every day.

Nashwa Ali, the head of Public Policies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at Facebook, said that there are about 24 million people using the website daily in Egypt, while the number of users who access it through mobile phones is nearly 37 million people on a monthly basis. Ali told Daily News Egypt that her company has recently hosted the ‘Boost Your Business’ event for the very first time in Egypt this year, within the framework of its vision for the growth of start-ups.

Ahmed Mostafa, head of the Mobile and Communications Division at the Chamber of Commerce in Alexandria, said that mobile trade has seen a decline in sales estimated at nearly 50% since the flotation of the Egyptian pound. He told Daily News Egypt that the share of the mobile market sales in Alexandria represents 18% of total sales, explaining that the mobile market is not monopolised by specific brands anymore. The past years have seen the success of many companies who have been in the market for no more than three years. The head of the division divided the market into two generations: Pre-2010 and post-2010.

Britain s information watchdog has referred Facebook to the lead regulator under Europe s data regime to look at how the social network targets, monitors and shows adverts to its users. Britain s Information Commissioner had been investigating the use of data analytics to influence politics after consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook users from a researcher. Cambridge Analytica worked on Donald Trump s US presidential campaign in 2016.

Despite an aggressive crackdown by social media firms, so-called “junk news” is spreading at a greater rate than in 2016 on social media ahead of the US midterm elections, according to researchers. Oxford Internet Institute researchers concluded that Facebook and Twitter remain filled with “extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked commentary,” and other forms of “low-quality” news.