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Crypto entrepreneurs fail to get response from Musk with $600,000 Goat statue

San Francisco: After spending more than $600,000 creating a 30-foot-long, 12,000-pound metal sculpture of Elon Musk headed goat riding a rocket, the cryptocurrency entrepreneurs failed to get the response from the billionaire…
5.4 mn Twitter users’ data leaked online, to grow even bigger

New Delhi: As Elon Musk goes gaga over transforming Twitter, at least 5.4 million Twitter user records have been stolen via an internal bug and leaked online on a hacker forum. In…

Zoomcar appoints Naveen Gupta as Country Head for India

Bengaluru: Domestic car sharing marketplace Zoomcar on Monday announced the appointment of Naveen Gupta as Vice President and Country Head for India. In his new role, Gupta will be responsible for all…
Musk fixes ‘slight degradation of service’ on Twitter

San Francisco: After a few users reported that they were not able to block accounts, Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday claimed that a “slight degradation of service” on the micro-blogging platform…
Twitter may exceed 1 bn users in 12-18 months: Musk

San Francisco: Twitter boss Elon Musk has said that the microblogging platform may exceed one billion monthly users in the next 12 to 18 months. “I think I see a path to…
Snapchat arrives on Microsoft Store

San Francisco: Snapchat, which avoided the Windows platform with no official apps or support, has finally arrived on the Microsoft Store as a Progressive Web App. According to Windows Central, Snapchat’s Progressive…
17-min of YouTube videos can reduce prejudice: Study

San Francisco: Watching just 17 minutes of YouTubers talking about their struggles with mental health can drive down prejudice, a research has suggested. According to the University of Essex, prejudice toward mental…

WhatsApp working on mute shortcut for Desktop group chats

San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a mute shortcut for group chats for a future update of WhatsApp Desktop beta. The mute shortcut will display at the top…
India now has over 396 mn gamers, 2nd largest in world

New Delhi: India now has the second largest gamer base in the world with 396.4 million gamers, a new report has showed. India now makes up 50.2 per cent of all gamers…
Senior Twitter executive gets court relief to prevent Musk from firing her

London: A senior Twitter employee has secured a temporary injunction from the Irish court to prevent her from getting fired by Elon Musk. The court order was secured by Sinead McSweeney, who…
Hubble captures unusual galaxy merger in ancient universe

Washington: The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an unusual galaxy merger in the ancient universe. The Arp-Madore catalog is a collection of particularly peculiar galaxies spread throughout the southern sky, and…
AIIMS ransomware attack: Key patient data at risk of leak, sale on Dark Web

New Delhi: With the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, still struggling to get its servers up and running after a massive ransomware attack earlier this week, cyber-security researchers…
Hackers create fake websites, steal data around ‘Black Friday’ sales

New Delhi: Threat actors are hosting websites for malicious campaigns centred around the Black Friday theme and e-commerce, cryptocurrency and travel are the top targets, a new report has revealed. Researchers found…
This CEO of $4.5 bn digital company ‘disgusted’ at tech layoffs

London: Julian Teicke, CEO of $4.5 billion digital insurance company Wefox, has said he is “disgusted” at tech companies laying off thousands of employees, saying “they are humans”. Teicke told CNBC he…
Musk says will make phones if Apple, Google remove Twitter from app stores

San Francisco: Alarmed at Apple and Google app store teams reviewing Twitter under him, Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday said that he will produce “alternative” smartphones to compete with Apple and…