From London to New York for 20 minutes

The next generation of aircraft can carry passengers from New York to London in just 20 minutes. So said his owner, writes The Independent. Idea of ​​this aircraft, called ANTIPODES comes from Canadian designer Charles Bombardier. He has designed a technique called "Its penetration during" that helps the aircraft reach speeds many times faster than current planes that are able to do. It can reach speeds of 25 thousand kilometers per hour and 747 Boeing now has the capacity to reach speeds of 900 kilometers per hour.

US Navy sailors' data breached

The US Navy is investigating a data breach after personal information of more than 130,000 sailors was accessed.

The breach came after the laptop of an employee at Hewlett Packard Enterprise working on a naval contract was "compromised", the Navy said.

It added that "unknown individuals" accessed the sensitive information on current and former sailors.

The data included names and social security numbers, but the Navy does not currently believe it was misused.

"The Navy takes this incident extremely seriously - this is a matter of trust for our sailors," said Vice Adm Robert Burke, the chief of naval personnel.

"We are in the early stages of investigating and are working quickly to identify and take care of those affected by this breach."

Laptop breach

The US Navy has about 430,000 sailors on active duty or in ready reserve.

Sailors are being contacted in the coming weeks and the Navy said it was looking into credit monitoring services for those affected.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which separated from US computer firm HP last year, informed the Navy on 27 October about the laptop.

After a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigation, it was found that the data of 134,386 sailors had been accessed.

A spokesman for Hewlett Packard Enterprise said: "This event has been reported to the Navy and because this is an ongoing investigation, HPE will not be commenting further out of respect for the privacy of our Navy personnel."

China's LingLong launches DingDong smart home speaker

A Chinese firm has unveiled the country's first voice-activated smart home speaker - its answer to Amazon's Echo and Google's Home.

The DingDong, by technology company Beijing LingLong, uses voice interaction to do tasks such as playing music and switching on home appliances.

The device is said to understand Mandarin, Cantonese and basic English.

A study by Juniper Research suggests China's smart home market could be worth $22.8bn (£18.3bn) by 2018.

Educational tool

Beijing LingLong is owned by Chinese online retailer JD.com - which is selling the DingDong for 698 yuan ($100, £81).

The device can communicate with 95% of the China's population, Beijing Linglong told Wired.

Faceboook increased presence in Britain

Facebook says it will expand its presence in the UK with 50% in 2017, while he bashuar US technology company Google, to increase investment in the UK, despite the vote to leave the European Union. The social network says it will employ 500 people, adding a thousand of such work in the UK, as plans to open a new office in London next year. Before Brexit referendum in June, pro companies stay in the country warned that a number of international companies will reduce their presence if Britain withdrew from the EU, making a less attractive place for investment, Reuters reports Facebook on Monday but said that is not the case. "The UK remains one of the best places to be a technology company, and is an important part of the history of Facebook," said the deputy. The company's president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelhson a conference. Expansion of Facebook comes after Google said earlier Alphabet company that would invest in thousands ekstrainxhinierë as part of its movement in a new building in London.

Zuckerberg details plans to combat problem

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has outlined plans for how he hopes to combat fake news on the site.
Facebook became mired in controversy after some users complained fake news changed the outcome of the US election.
Mr Zuckerberg posted details of several projects to “take misinformation seriously”, including methods for stronger detection and verification.
He previously responded to criticism of fake news on Facebook by saying over 99% of its content was “authentic”.
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In his post, billionaire Mr Zuckerberg said: “We’ve been working on this problem for a long time and we take this responsibility seriously.”
But he said the problems were “complex, both technically and philosophically.” He noted Facebook did not want to discourage the sharing of opinions or become “arbiters of truth”. Raported 24globenews

Price of snapchat

The parent company, Snap, Snapchat app for messages, has added the latter in the US stock market, reports 24globenews.

Based on some research so far, me Brandy Baze in California is expected to reach figures from 20 billion to 25 billion dollars.

This setting make The punch Great Time Stocks in America since commercial giants from China, Alibaba, is listed on this market two years ago.

Snap has declined to comment on the action.

After Note 7, Samsung Galaxy J5 also explode

Also, earlier this month, Samsung was forced to withdraw 2.8 million dishwashers because they dismantled during use.

Now, according to a report coming from France, via CNET news agency, a woman had exploded smartphone Galaxy J5, Koha.net broadcasts. Lamya Bouyirdane told The Associated Press he has noticed that her phone was very hot on the screen and began to smoke from the phone. Then she threw her to the floor and the phone is gripped by the fire while his rear was completely deformed.

It also says it plans to sue Samsung company because he was her son who had the phone in his hand a few seconds before they explode.

“We can not comment now on this particular incident until we examine this phone. Consumer safety remains our highest priority and we want to work with any customer who has experienced a problem with Samsung products, in order to investigate the case and support them. Problems with the Galaxy Note 7 are isolated only to that model, “said Samsung in a statement to CNET.

Samsung must agree with this problems with Note 7 are the company itself, apart from a few isolated incidents here and there, while the rest of the Samsung lines are OK.

Bouyirdane said by phone bought the site, so there are a number of reasons why you broke the phone and that this incident may not be primarily the fault of Samsung.

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