Bitcoin extended losses on Friday afternoon, falling more than 11 percent after China doubled down on efforts to prevent speculative and financial risks by cracking down on mining and trading of the largest cryptocurrency. China’s Financial Stability and Development Committee, chaired by Vice Premier Liu He, singled out Bitcoin as the asset it needs to
Month: May 2021
GTA 5 player with seemingly incredible skills claims to have become the first person to beat the popular action-adventure game without taking any damage. The player managed to achieve the feat in just nine hours earlier this week and posted a three-part video series on YouTube to prove it. Speedrunner UnNameD said that it took him 48
India’s flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System (PSS) provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year. The breach involves personal data registered between Aug. 26, 2011 and Feb. 3, 2021,
The favorite space travel maneuvers in and out of a wormhole of science-fiction fables could be more real than we thought. Physicists initially did not know whether black holes existed in the real world. Over the years, they said black holes are very real and then showed they even exist in our galaxy, using the theory
Open clouds vs the big three Yes, the major public clouds offer a lot. But what you may not know are the limitations, and how open clouds make the difference. Learn More Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. (Reuters) — Chinese fund managers, grappling with a rapidly-growing list of publicly-traded securities
PUBG Mobile India’s new avatar Battlegrounds Mobile India is aimed at deceiving the government and citizens and should be banned in the country, Arunachal Pradesh Member of Legislative Assembly Ninong Ering demanded in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. He alleged that by launching the new game, its developer Krafton was
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally removing numerous national security documents and willfully retaining them at her personal residence during a 13-year period from June 2004 to December 2017. The federal indictment charged Kendra Kingsbury, 48, with two counts of having unauthorized possession
COVID-19 has completely upended our lives. Apart from the unimaginable loss of human lives, the coronavirus pandemic has also impacted the environment in many ways. For example, the enormous amount of medical waste generated due to the crisis definitely has had a huge impact on our environment. But the scale of this is yet not known. So,
Open clouds vs the big three Yes, the major public clouds offer a lot. But what you may not know are the limitations, and how open clouds make the difference. Learn More Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Where to start and what scope to address has been one of the
Spotify has announced that it is bringing the ability to download playlists, albums, and podcasts on Apple Watch for offline listening. Users will be required to have a Spotify Premium account and an Apple Watch Series 3 or later to experience downloads option. Spotify competitor and Apple’s in-house music streaming service Apple Music has had
Oppo Reno 5A has been launched in Japan with IP68 certification. The new Oppo phone comes with quad rear cameras and features a 90Hz display. Other key highlights of the Oppo Reno 5A include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC, 128GB storage, and a hole-punch design. The smartphone also comes preloaded with artificial intelligence (AI) backed
In this article MTCH BMBL Dating apps are creating badges displaying vaccination status and offering vaccinated Americans free premium benefits. Tinder The largest dating apps in the U.S. are banding together in support of Covid-19 vaccines, in the hopes that it’ll be a hot vax summer. For the uninitiated, hot vax summer plays on the
The Union Government on Friday wrote to Twitter registering objection on the use of “Manipulated Media” tag on certain tweets made by Indian political leaders with reference to a toolkit “created to undermine, derail and demean the efforts of the centre against COVID-19 pandemic”. It asked Twitter to remove the tag as the matter is
Netflix is looking to hire an executive to oversee its expansion into video games, a person familiar with the matter said, a sign that it is ramping up efforts to grow beyond its traditional business as streaming competition intensifies. The move comes at a time when the video gaming industry has benefited from a surge
The adversary behind Conti ransomware targeted no fewer than 16 healthcare and first responder networks in the U.S. within the past year, totally victimizing over 400 organizations worldwide, 290 of which are situated in the country. That’s according to a new flash alert issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday. “The
India’s information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to take down any content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the coronavirus, according to a letter issued on Friday which was seen by Reuters. The World Health Organization said on May 11 that the coronavirus variant B.1.617, first identified
A few years ago if someone asked you to imagine spaceships as a mode of everyday transport, you would dismiss the idea, right? But the Japanese government, along with private companies, is all set to develop an intercontinental passenger spaceship network that will enable people to fly to the major cities of the world in
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. (Reuters) — Wejo is in talks to go public through a reverse merger with blank-check company Virtuoso Acquisition in a deal that would value the British connected car data start-up at more than $1 billion, two people familiar with the matter said. The deal has
Snap said Friday it will acquire WaveOptics, a British augmented reality (AR) technology company, for over $500 million (roughly Rs. 3,645 crores). The deal, first reported by The Verge and confirmed by a Snap spokesman, will help the owner of photo messaging app Snapchat push its way into a future where AR eyewear could be
The messaging app WhatsApp said on Friday it was still discussing the rollout of an update in Turkey, despite a statement from Turkey’s Competition Board saying the update would not be issued. WhatsApp updated its terms of service in January, saying it was reserving the right of its owner Facebook and its subsidiaries to collect
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, arrives at U.S. district court in Oakland, California, on Friday, May 21, 2021. Nina Riggio | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook faced sharp questioning on Friday from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers about Apple’s App Store business model at the end of his testimony
Loki is due in less than three weeks on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, but Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief has been around in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a decade now — since the first Thor movie in May 2011. Loki is by far the MCU’s longest surviving “villain”. I’m putting that in quotes because
It’s been a tough year-and-a-half, with the novel coronavirus pandemic not just bringing life to a screeching halt but also wreaking havoc across the globe. However, with vaccination drives underway, there are signs of normalcy returning. To add to that, a new video gaming experience, a combination of real-life kart racing and augmented reality, is
U.S. insurance giant CNA Financial reportedly paid $40 million to a ransomware gang to recover access to its systems following an attack in March, making it one the most expensive ransoms paid to date. The development was first reported by Bloomberg, citing “people with knowledge of the attack.” The adversary that staged the intrusion is
A new video of a UFO sighting allegedly captured by the US Navy in 2019 has been shared by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell on Twitter days before intelligence agencies are due to submit a report to the US Congress on the subject. The US has a “massive intelligence failure on its hands” when it comes to unidentified
NASA has released a new, stunning image on its Instagram account that shows a huge glacier melting away. The image captured by Thomas Pesquet, a French astronaut, from the International Space Station (ISS), is of the Upsala Glacier, the third-largest in the Southern Patagonian Icefield of Argentina and Chile. The American space agency said glaciers
Open clouds vs the big three Yes, the major public clouds offer a lot. But what you may not know are the limitations, and how open clouds make the difference. Learn More Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Despite massive growth in no-code, only 18% of people are familiar with “no-code,”
Google I/O 2021 keynote took place on Tuesday where CEO Sundar Pichai and his team of executives announced a list of new developments, including the release of Android 12 and new Wear OS. In addition to the two major product-focussed announcements, Google announced its progress in bringing natural language understanding with a new language model
Redmi Note 8 (2021) has been confirmed by Xiaomi. The phone was earlier spotted on certification sites like Bluetooth SIG and US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which leaked crucial details. The 2021 model is expected to bring slight upgrades to the 2019 model. But the Redmi Note 8 (2021) will reportedly launch only in global,
May.19 — Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer at Ark Investment Management, says Bitcoin is “on sale” right now, although it is not necessarily at a bottom. She speaks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar at The Bloomberg Businessweek event.
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