Maybe 5 years ago, if you asked someone if they’d agree to board a drone, they would likely refuse. He might even think it’s crazy, but not anymore. With all the training, safety measures, and precautions that are taken into consideration in the field of aviation, however, without a doubt, accidents do occur, and human error is inevitable no matter how we try to avoid it. But technology and the development witnessed by our time have solved many of the problems and gaps that we suffer from in many areas of life. The field of aircraft is not excluded from it.

unpiloted planes have been taken in earnest, and we consider this step a big leap. So what’s new here?

Reliable Robots and Xwing are two startups in the Gulf region that are building aircraft that can fly on their own unpiloted planes, Instead of building new aircraft, both companies have modified Cessna Grand Caravans. Airplanes can fly autonomously while a remote operator monitors the flight, and only takes control if needed. Both companies said they are working with major logistics companies to deliver cargo as an initial draw or as a trial run for the move, once approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Xwing tried it out in action, as a plane was taken on a test flight and the pilot did not touch the controls, not even once, and it went well.

A prominent critic of China said that Microsoft’s LinkedIn platform had frozen his account and removed content critical of the country’s government, in the latest series of allegations that a professional networking network imposes censorship on users to satisfy Beijing authorities.

And Bloomberg quoted Peter Humphrey, a British corporate investigator, and former journalist, as saying that he “received a notification from LinkedIn that last month, that his comments he had posted on his account on the platform had been removed.” His published comments described the Chinese government as a “repressive dictatorship” and criticized Government media organizations in the country described them as “propaganda mouthpieces.”

Humphrey pointed out that, late last month, he received many notifications stating that his “critical comments he published about the Chinese government and the state-controlled China Global Television Network (CGTN) were removed, like bullying and harassment,” while his account was suspended on the 26th of the same month due to “He violated the Terms of Service.”

After Bloomberg contacted LinkedIn last week to request comment, the company reinstated Humphrey’s account and recovered some of his comments, including those mentioned above.

LinkedIn entered the Chinese market in early 2014, operating under the name Li Lingying. It is still the only American social network allowed to operate in the country, but it complies with the restrictions imposed by the Chinese government on certain types of content for users in China.

And the “LinkedIn” platform said last March that it would stop new registrations for its users in China because it works to “ensure our compliance with local law.” And earlier that month, the Internet Regulatory Authority in China reprimanded executives of “LinkedIn” for their failure. In control of political content, according to The New York Times.

Apple is working on making several updates to its iMessage service, in order to be able to compete strongly in the instant messaging market, especially WhatsApp.

According to what was published by the agency “Bloomberg”, informed sources confirmed the work of the iPhone company to develop iMessage to attract iPhone users, to rely mainly on its service for communication, rather than WhatsApp.

A long struggle
Apple’s plan to develop iMessage to rival WhatsApp is a new link in the series of conflicts between Apple and Facebook.

Facebook director Mark Zuckerberg said that iMessage service is an important and differentiating factor in the world of Apple services because it comes pre-installed on every iPhone phone, so it is the most used among all instant messaging services in the United States of America, according to what was published by the CNN website. NBC. “

WhatsApp is one of the most powerful messaging services used in the world, but since the end of last year, it has been going through a period that may be the most difficult in its history, in conjunction with the service’s announcement of updating the privacy policies related to its handling of user data and placing it in the hands of Facebook for use in a wider field of ads.

A report of Edward Snowden, a former contractor with the US National Security Agency (NSA), has revealed that the NFT has sold about $ 5.4 million in cryptocurrency tokens, according to the verege.

The encrypted piece of art bears the name Stay Free, and is represented in a group of pages of the court ruling that recognized the unlawfulness of the extensive surveillance practices carried out by the US National Security Agency (NSA), which Snowden had revealed to the world in 2014, and these documents were arranged so that Snowden’s face appears, According to Engadget.

“Emerging applications of coding can play an important role in upholding our rights,” Snowden said in a statement issued by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. “This auction will develop valuable and privacy-protected uses of cryptography, to protect press freedom and serve the public.”

Snowden announced, in a tweet on his official Twitter account, that the sale of his encrypted art piece is directed directly to the International Press Freedom Foundation, which he chairs.

The “Android Police” website suddenly revealed that Facebook services have been disrupted, including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.

The British newspaper, The Independent, said that millions of users of Facebook’s social media platforms, in different regions of the world, had suddenly encountered difficulties using the various “Facebook” services, on Friday.

Facebook has not issued a statement that the service has stopped.

According to the website monitoring the performance of electronic services “Down Detector”, the rate of complaints from users regarding the four social services during the past minutes has increased to more than 112 thousand times.