It is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic, despite showing signs of abating, has wreaked havoc on the Indonesian economy. Even as the country is on the rebound, the pandemic’s effects are still being felt across industries, including micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

In February, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment in a fan-shaped delta visible from space. 

With many Indonesians barely able to survive the pandemic’s economic fallout, citizen-run initiatives have become a lifeblood for many.

From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants.

The duo was awarded "for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research, and has made chemistry greener," the Nobel Committee said.

Virtual YouTubers, or Vtubers, are entertainers with virtual anime avatars.

Theories about early human migration in Asia could be transformed by the research published in the scientific journal Nature in August, after analysis of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), or the genetic fingerprint, of the woman who was given a ritual burial in an Indonesian cave.

What actually caused the outage?

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Many long-held fears and criticisms about the platform seem to have been backed up by Facebook's own research, which ex-worker Frances Haugen has turned over to authorities and the Wall Street Journal.

Often referred to as a "miracle material," graphene is one of the world's strongest materials, and one of the lightest.

The images were obtained almost three years after the unmanned mission vessel was launched aboard an Ariane 5 Rocket.

"Apple doesn't innovate anymore" or "Steve Jobs is turning in his grave" are the type of disillusioned tweets that pop up especially during product launches led by Tim Cook, who took Apple's reins in August 2011. 

For better or worse, the continuing pandemic means that webinars will remain a major part of our lives for a long while yet. Webinar enthusiasts welcome this with open arms. 

Google has hit the brakes on a project to add mobile banking to its Pay app, even as the online financial services market for everyday investors heats up.

"The pandemic has revealed shocking ineptness by the scientific establishment at conveying messages about masks, vaccination, or the dangers of consuming horse drugs and aquarium cleaner," wrote editor-in-chief H. Holden Thorp.

YouTube said Wednesday it would remove videos that falsely claim approved vaccines are dangerous.

The decision to hold the iteration for children under 13 comes as Facebook grapples with fallout from a withering Wall Street Journal series revealing the social media giant's own research showed it knew of the harm Instagram can do to teenage girls' well-being. 

The colorful serial entrepreneur, an outspoken digital money fan, shared his view at a Code Conference in Beverly Hills, as governments around the world fret over cryptocurrency threatening their control of financial systems.

The comments, in a report published on Tuesday, puts Australia alongside Europe and Britain where regulators want to stop the Alphabet Inc unit trouncing rival advertisers by using the data it collects from people's online searches - including on maps and YouTube - to place marketing material.

Blue Origin's next flight may include a celebrity astronaut -- William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, news and entertainment website TMZ said.

Facebook is suspending development of a version of its Instagram photo-sharing app for children aged under 13, after widespread criticism of the plan.

The tax authority said "YouTubers and bloggers" earning over 500,000 pounds ($32,000) annually would be taxed, in a statement issued Saturday.

Fitted with cameras, sensors and a loud alarm if needed, the robots -- first created in 2014 by the two founders of Skype -- are 99 percent autonomous.

Although it is still in its early phase, music NFT has caught the attention of Indonesian artists and collectors alike, turning them into believers of the system.

The findings push back the date at which the continent was colonized by its first inhabitants by thousands of years.

Research showed that over a 250-year period separate groups of people set out from tiny islands east of Tahiti to settle Easter Island, the Marquesas and Raivavae -- archipelagos that are thousands of miles apart but all home to similar ancient statues.

The virus has killed millions since it emerged in China in late 2019, and controversy continues to swirl around where it came from.

The company has been under relentless pressure to guard against being a platform where misinformation and hate can spread, while at the same time remain a forum for people to speak freely. It has struggled to respond.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule, whose heat shield allowed it to withstand descent, was slowed down by four large parachutes before splashing into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida at 7:06 pm (2306 GMT), according to a video feed by the company.