Technology
Musk secretly funded Bitcoin rival WSJ

The billionaire reportedly financed the development of Dogecoin and mulled creating a new blockchain-based social media platform Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter), has been financing the development of meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal on Friday based on excerpts from a biography of […]

Updated: Sep 3, 2023
Deep learning used by seismologists to improve prediction of earthquakes: Study

California [US], September 2 (ANI): The methods that researchers and governmental organisations employ to predict earthquake aftershocks have mostly stayed unaltered for more than 30 years. The large seismology datasets that are currently accessible are difficult for these older models to handle, even though they perform well with sparse data. The Recurrent Earthquake foreCAST (RECAST), […]

Updated: Sep 2, 2023
Russian Malware Targeting Ukrainian Mobile Devices

Washington – Ukrainian troops using Android mobile devices are coming under attack from Russian hackers, who are using a new kind of malware to try to steal information critical to the ongoing counteroffensive. Cyber officials from the United States, along with counterparts from Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, issued a warning Thursday about the […]

Updated: Aug 31, 2023
Musk reveals radical new plan for X (aka Twitter)

The billionaire has announced that the social media platform will soon become the go-to “global address book” X, formerly known as Twitter, will soon allow users to make audio and video calls, the company’s owner Elon Musk announced on Thursday, saying he aims to make the social media platform the go-to “global address book.” The […]

Updated: Aug 31, 2023
Studies criticise big tech firms over Russian disinformation

Tech titans, including TikTok and Twitter, failed to effectively tackle Russian disinformation online during the first year of the war in Ukraine, according to a study published Wednesday by the EU. A separate study points at the ways TikTok has been profiting from pro-Russian related narratives. The EU study comes after tougher rules under the […]

Updated: Aug 30, 2023
Prigozhin’s Demise And Russia’s ‘Gangster Rules’

Dmitri Alperovitch is a Soviet-born cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur who has waded deeply into geopolitics. A co-founder of CrowdStrike who helped investigate high-profile cases including the Russian hack of the U.S. Democratic Party in 2016, he also launched the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a nonprofit think tank, to examine U.S. policy challenges in the 21st century. […]

Updated: Aug 29, 2023
China science, technology news summary — Aug. 28

BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) — The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China: YOUNG SCI-TECH TALENTS China has unveiled a slew of measures to strengthen the cultivation and management of young sci-tech talents, in a bid to facilitate the country’s drive to achieve greater self-reliance and strength in science and […]

Updated: Aug 28, 2023
US government sought control over TikTok report

A draft agreement would have given Washington unfettered access to the Chinese-owned platform’s servers and other property The Biden administration sought to gain control over nearly every aspect of the inner workings of social media behemoth TikTok as part of negotiations allowing its continued operation in the US, according to a draft agreement obtained by […]

Updated: Aug 27, 2023
Biden administration sought control over TikTok

A draft agreement would have given Washington unfettered access to the platform’s servers and other property The Biden administration sought to gain control over nearly every aspect of the inner workings of social media behemoth TikTok as part of negotiations allowing its continued operation in the US, according to a draft agreement obtained by Forbes […]

Updated: Aug 26, 2023
MSMEs are gems of most economies, contribute significantly to economic activities: Piyush Goyal

New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Friday said that through the G20 Presidency, we have expressed our collective future in business and trade, having agreed to map global value chains, enable the active contribution of least developed countries, create a large database for MSMEs and commit […]

Updated: Aug 25, 2023