Japan has an ambitious plan to send men to the moon by 2030 as part of a multinational mission and is determined they'll have a ride when they get there. Japan's space agency JAXA and partner Toyota ...
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Bulgaria's government is dealing with a massive security breach that might have affected almost all adult residents' information. According to Reuters, the country's finance minister has confirmed ...
At least one sex tech product caused a stir at CES last year. As you might remember, the company Lora DiCarlo had a Robotics Innovation Award for its Ose 'blended-orgasm machine' revoked and then ...
While we wait for Neuralink to present the progress it's made over the last couple of years in brain-computer interface technology, the New York Times has already published information from an early ...
If you suddenly have an urge for McDonald's at home, you won't need to go through UberEats to get it. The fast food chain has expanded its delivery options to include DoorDash. The rollout will ...
Sprint's security team is having a very, very lousy 2019. On top of the earlier Boost Mobile breach, the carrier has revealed that hackers obtained 'unauthorized access' to an unspecified number of ...
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Apple reportedly is looking to buy exclusive rights to original podcasts, reported Bloomberg. The company has reached out to executives of media companies, but there's no clear strategy in place yet. ...
Moderators of Facebook Groups could soon get more leeway in controlling who sees the comments made on their forums. The US Patent Office today granted Facebook a patent for content moderation that ...
Apple is still working to plug the holes created by a security exploit recently discovered in video conferencing app Zoom. According to The Verge, Apple quietly pushed out a security update for macOS ...
Facebook's reported $5 billion settlement with the FTC isn't even official yet, but that isn't stopping politicians from bristling at it. Senators Richard Blumenthal, Josh Hawley and Ed Markey ...
The Unicode Consortium teased the next round of emoji additions for 2019, and now it's clear just what they'll look like when they reach your phone. Both Apple and Google are marking World Emoji Day ...
More than two years after it arrived in South Korea, LG's long-delayed contactless mobile payment system has finally gone live in the US. LG Pay is available on the G8 ThinQ at launch. In the coming ...
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Δώδεκα άνθρωποι εκτελούνται στη Βόρεια Αφρική λόγω της χριστιανικής τους πίστης. Πρόκειται για την παλαιότερη καταγραφή Χριστιανισμού σ εκείνη την περιοχή.
1751
Ίδρυση της «Αρχαίας Μεγάλης Στοάς της Αγγλίας», ή αλλιώς ονομαζόμενης «Μεγάλης Στοάς των Ελευθέρων και Αποδεκτών Τεκτόνων της Αγγλίας».
1815
Ο Μέγας Ναπολέων παραδίνεται στις βρετανικές δυνάμεις στο Ροσφόρ.
1912
Οι κάτοικοι της Ικαρίας εκδιώκουν τις τουρκικές αρχές και ανακηρύσσουν την "Ικαριακήν Πολιτείαν".
1913
Συνέρχεται στο Βουκουρέστι συνδιάσκεψη των εμπολέμων στην οποία παρίσταται ο Πρωθυπουργός Ελ. Βενιζέλος.
1945
Ο Ιερός Λόχος εγκαταλείπει την Αλεξάνδρεια της Αιγύπτου για να επιστρέψει στην Ελλάδα.
1953
Πόλεμος της Κορέας: Το Τάγμα ΕΚΣΕ στην Κορέα αποκρούει ισχυρή κινεζική επίθεση στο Β.Δ. τμήμα της Ζουγκάμ - Νι.
