News Headlines - 06 November 2013
▽Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with polonium, tests show | The Guardian
The first forensic tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat's corpse have shown unexpectedly high levels of radioactive polonium-210, suggesting the Palestinian leader could have been poisoned with the rare and lethal substance. The Swiss scientists who tested Arafat's remains after the exhumation of his body in November 2012 discovered levels of polonium at least 18 times higher than usual in Arafat's ribs, pelvis and in soil that absorbed his bodily fluids.
Today the government is paying for its mistake by funding the loss of as many as 1,775 BAE jobs, ordering three offshore patrol vessels to keep work going before its next big order for Type-26 frigates, and taking the political heat for ending shipbuilding at the Portsmouth dockyard, which launched its first known ship in 1497.
▽Google ordered by French court to drop sex images of ex-F1 chief Max Mosley - Telegraph
Google has been ordered to block its search engine in France from providing links to images of an orgy involving Max Mosley, the former Formula One chief, in a ruling handed down by a Paris court.
▽Apple REVEALS how it slips fanboi data to govts, says 'We're not Google' • The Register
Apple has joined Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo!'s transparency club, releasing a detailed report on the numbers and types of requests for personal records it has received from law enforcement and government agencies around the world.
▽Huawei to invest over ￡370 million in superfast 5G research | ITProPortal.com
Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei has announced the investment of at least $600 million (￡372 million) towards 5G research over the next four years. The company predicts that the first 5G networks will be ready for commercial deployment by 2020 and will run at speeds of over 10Gbps, 100 times faster than current 4G networks.
