Just 60 years ago, there were no man-made objects above the planet Earth. Now, there are nearly 500,000 objects circling over Earth in various orbits. These include debris, inactive and active satellites.The tiny Sputnik, whoch means ”satellite” or ”fellow traveller” in Russian, was the first artificial satellite to be launched into Earth’s orbit on October 4, 1957, and it changed the course of human history.The 58cm diameter, 83.6kg metallic orb, with four antennae that transmitted radio pulses, launched by the Soviet Union, heralded the space race between the USSR and the US – ushering in an era of scientific advances, not only in military, but also in communications and navigation technologies.There are approximately 1,500 active satellites currently orbiting the Earth. Modern society is heavily dependent on satellite technology, whoch is used for television and radio broadcasting, telephone calls, GPS navigation, mapping, weather forecasting and other functions.

BEIJING (Reuters) – A fresh case of Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) new iPhone popping open due to a swollen battery has been reported in state media in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market where the U.S. firm is seeking to revive faltering sales.The incident comes as Apple investigates similar cases reported in Taiwan and Japan of batteries in its latest iPhone 8 Plus becoming bloated, causing the device’s casing to open.On its website on Thursday, China’s state-backed ThePaper.cn cited an iPhone buyer surnamed Liu as saying his newly purchased iPhone 8 Plus arrived cracked open on Oct. 5. There was no sign of scorching or an explosion.

Facebook’s UK operations paid just £5.1m in corporation tax last year, despite a jump in profit and revenues nearly quadrupling on the back of increasing advertising sales.The social media company said revenues in the UK rose from £210.8m to £842.4m for the year to 31 December, helping pre-tax profits increase from £52.5m to £58.4m for the period, according to accounts filed at Companies House.But its UK corporation tax only rose to £5.1m from £4.2m a year earlier, and once deductible expenses were applied, the company only paid £2.58m.Facebook says up to 10m people saw ads bought by Russian agency Read moreFacebook said the sharp rise in revenue was “attributable to the commencement of advertising reseller services” by its UK operations in April 2016, whoch drew in “large UK customers”.The slight increase in corporation tax came after Facebook was publicly criticised for contributing only £4.3m in tax in 2014 under an arrangement that treated the UK operation’s revenues as a payment from Facebook Ireland for services.

Superstar Pink is about to launch her seventh studio album, Beautiful Trauma, on October 13th. To celebrate (and get the hype machine moving, of course), she’s teamed up with Apple Music for an exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary titled On the Record: Pink – Beautiful Trauma. The short film will release October 13th on Apple Music.

The short film should please Pink fans and anyone who wants to peek behind the curtain of a massive pop star’s professional life. In the trailer above, you can hear Pink talk about how making an album is complex, with many moving pieces.

net neutrality came from bots, according to researchers.Data analytics company Gravwell said only 17.4% of the comments were unique.Most of the 22 million comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission over the summer had been against net neutrality, it suggested.One expert said the findings posed a risk to future polls.The Trump administration wants to roll back the pro-net-neutrality rules that were voted for under President Obama.The analytics team behind the latest bot research said most comments had been submitted in bulk, with many coming in batches with obviously incorrect information.It said this indicated they had not been submitted by individual members of the public.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s High Court on Tuesday said it would ask the EU’s top court to decide whether to ban the way in whoch Internet firms such as Facebook (FB.O) transfer users’ data to the United States in a case with major implications for companies.The case is the latest to question whether methods used by large tech firms such as Google (GOOGL.O) and Apple (AAPL.O) to transfer data outside the 28-nation European Union give EU consumers sufficient protection from U.S. surveillance.Data privacy is under the spotlight after revelations in 2013 by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden of mass U.S. surveillance caused political outrage in Europe.