Mar.31 — Kimbal Musk, Big Green executive chairman and co-founder, says he’s excited about the future of Tesla. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller and Amanda Lang on “Bloomberg Markets.”
Month: April 2021
Papua New Guinea’s health minister on Thursday called disinformation spread on Facebook the “biggest challenge” to efforts to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19 in the poor Pacific nation. Jelta Wong said “dangerous” posts and anti-vax conspiracy theories were hampering the drive to get people to seek treatment and testing for the disease as infection
Apple’s new California Flats solar farm Courtesy of Apple Apple will use Tesla‘s Megapack at its new battery-based renewable energy storage facility, the smartphone-maker confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. Apple announced Wednesday it’s building a battery-based solar energy storage facility in California. The company said the facility will be capable of storing 240 megawatt-hours of energy,
PlayStation Plus subscribers will have their hands full with monstrous quests in April as the free games lineup for the month brings two zombie survival shooters and an otherworldly platformer. Days Gone, Zombie Army 4: Dead War, and Oddworld: Soulstorm will be available for free for PS Plus subscribers starting April 6. The first two
A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Kansas has been indicted on charges that he unauthorizedly accessed a public water facility’s computer system, jeopardizing the residents’ safety and health in the local community. Wyatt A. Travnichek, 22, of Ellsworth County, Kansas, has been charged with one count of tampering with a public water system
Twitter Fleets, the social media platform’s disappearing post feature, is getting the ability to add stickers in the form of GIFs and Twemojis. The feature will be available for both Android and iOS users on their smartphones. Twitter Fleets lets users express their thoughts, opinions, and feelings in a disappearing story format — much like
Want more company growth? Build a better company culture. Learn how building an employee-first culture determines resilience, growth, and innovation. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. (Reuters) — From delayed car deliveries to a supply shortfall in home appliances to costlier smartphones, businesses and
Among Us is finally getting the Airship map. The game’s fourth map is also its biggest one to date complete with multiple floors, contraptions, new tasks, and a fresh set of hats. Developer InnerSloth first announced the new map at the Game Awards 2020 back in December. Thanks to its massive popularity, Among Us has
A high court in Pakistan said the country’s telecommunications authority can lift a block on social media app TikTok, after government officials said the company was working with them on monitoring what they called “immoral” content. The head of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) told the court in a hearing on Thursday in Peshawar that
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday said that an Israeli national pleaded guilty for his role as an “administrator” of a portal called DeepDotWeb (DDW), a “news” website that “served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces.” According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar, 37, an Israeli citizen residing in Brazil,
Discord’s Stage Channel is the latest audio-only chat rooms feature to rival the likes of Clubhouse. The company announced that its new feature will be launched on all platforms where Discord is available — Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and the Web. Earlier this month, some users on Reddit were able to view the Stage
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Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 powered by Google’s Wear OS was launched on Thursday. The rugged smartwatch offers 200-metre water resistance and features a wide range of activity options including running, indoor workouts, road biking, swimming, as well as surfing and snowboarding. The G-Shock smartwatch also comes with an optical sensor to measure heart rate. It features
Over the past few generations, OnePlus’ non-Pro smartphones have often been neglected in favour of the Pro models. The feature disparity between the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro is still the best example to date. Things did improve slightly with the 8 series, but higher prices have also meant that the non-Pro models don’t offer
In this article GOOGL FB TWTR Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Google, one of the first major U.S. companies to send employees home last year because of the coronavirus, is setting new remote work guidelines
PUBG Lite, a free-to-play adaptation of PUBG that allows those who do not have a high-end gaming hardware to play the popular battle royale title, is shutting down service on April 29, the developers have announced. Player support will be terminated on May 29. The announcement comes a day after the lite.pubg.com webpage was closed.
Sep.13 — Rett Wallace, Triton Research chief executive officer, comments on WeWork’s plans for a public listing. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Romaine Bostick, Caroline Hyde and Joe Weisenthal on “Bloomberg Markets: What’d You Miss?”
A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack. In an update shared on Wednesday, Google’s Threat Analysis Group said the attackers behind the operation set up a fake security company called SecuriElite and a slew of social
Instagram is rolling out a new Remix feature to increase collaboration using Reels. Remix is essentially similar to how TikTok’s Duets feature works – allowing users to record alongside an existing Reel. Instagram Reels users can use the Remix feature to create their own Reel next to one that already exists. This feature should come
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Microsoft has won a Pentagon contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth $21.88 billion (Rs. 1,60,290 crores) over the next decade, the company and the US military announced Wednesday. The headsets, based on commercially available HoloLens, will make soldiers safer and more effective, according to Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman. The Department of Defense
OnePlus 9 Pro is now available for purchase in India. The latest OnePlus flagship was launched alongside the OnePlus 9, the OnePlus 9R, and the OnePlus Watch last week. The OnePlus 9 Pro comes in 8GB and 12GB RAM options, and is on sale in all three colour options: Morning Mist, Pine Green, and Stellar
Google has cancelled its April Fools’ day pranks this year due to the ongoing pandemic. The company confirmed its plans to not indulge in any jokes this year and instead focus its efforts on the fight against the pandemic. This is the second year that Google has cancelled its prank plans. The tech giant is
In this article AMZN MSFT Soldiers wearing the IVAS system, a modified version of the HoloLens 2. US Army The Pentagon announced that Microsoft has won a contract to build more than 120,000 custom HoloLens augmented-reality headsets for the U.S. Army. The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years, a Microsoft
GOQii founder Vishal Gondal has been summoned by the police in Faridabad over posts against real money gaming. Gondal, who is also an investor in nCore games, the creators of FAU-G, has been posting about the differences between video games and real money gaming, that he described as gambling. This has led to multiple defamation
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan. Dubbed “A41APT” by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new slew of attacks undertaken by APT10 (aka Stone Panda or Cicada) using previously undocumented malware
Facebook said it was taking steps to combat hate speech and misinformation in India as the world’s biggest democracy started its months-long multi-phase elections in four big states. “We recognise that there are certain types of content, such as hate speech, that could lead to imminent, offline harm,” the social networking giant said in a
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Apple Maps has started showing COVID-19 airport travel guidance to iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to let them easily access local airport health requirements including face coverings, health tests, or screenings, and quarantine guidelines. The data has been sourced from the Airports Council International (ACI) for major airports across the globe, including key ones in