San Francisco, July 9 (IANS) Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Saturday announced it was going to sue Tesla CEO Elon Musk for terminating the $44 billion takeover deal.In a surprising move, Musk's legal team said in a US Securities and…

Tokyo, July 9 (IANS) Tech giant Sony is removing access to hundreds of movies and TV shows on its PlayStation Store service next month, meaning users that previously paid for titles such as Paddington and The Hunger Games will no longer be…

San Francisco, July 9 (IANS) Tech billionaire Elon Musk is officially trying to pull out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase microblogging site Twitter.In a filing on Friday afternoon with the US Securities and Exchange Commission…

New York, July 8 (IANS) People who regularly fast are less likely to experience severe complications from Covid-19, suggests a study.Intermittent fasting has previously shown to have a host of health benefits, including lowering the risk of…

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The over two years of Covid-19 pandemic laid bare the already failing health systems of India and people continue to suffer. With the country now facing recurring infections post-Covid, there is an urgent need to…

Washington, July 8 (IANS) A huge hole in the Earth's ozone layer, seven times larger than the Antarctic ozone hole, may increase the risk of skin cancers, and cataracts among humans and also affect agricultural productivity and aquatic…

Beijing, July 8 (IANS) Rattled at the alleged data leak of nearly 1 billion residents, China Premier Li Keqiang has stressed data security, calling on government bodies to "defend information security", media reported on Friday.According to…

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) With an aim to make hybrid work easy and simple for users, tech giant Microsoft on Friday introduced four new features to Teams, including a new "co-organiser" role.The company said that organisers can share control…

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Blockchain projects around Web3.0 lost more than $2 billion to hacks and exploits in the first six months this year, a new report has shown.According to Blockchain auditing and security company CertiK, this year's…

New York, July 8 (IANS) US scientists have developed a new algorithm that can, with just two teaspoons of raw sewage, accurately determine the genetic mixture of SARS-CoV-2 variants present within a population.The algorithm named Freyja,…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) Microblogging site Twitter has confirmed that it has started testing a new feature -- CoTweets -- that allows two accounts to co-author a tweet and both to be tagged in a single tweet.The platform said that this…

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Netflix has partnered German audio brand Sennheiser to bring spatial audio to across its catalog for its over 221 million users across the world.Netflix said that spatial audio will help translate the cinematic…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic partnered with Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, to design and manufacture its next generation motherships.The mothership is the air launch carrier aircraft…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) An investigation into a deadly Tesla car crash has been launched by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).According to documents viewed by TechCrunch, the investigation, which was opened…

Sonipat, July 8 (IANS) The Jindal School of Public Health and Human Development (JSPH) under O.P. Jindal Global University on Friday announced 100 per cent scholarships for the inaugural batch of the Masters in Public Health Programme…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) As recession fears grow, the US-based autonomous vehicle technology startup Agro AI, backed by Ford and Volkswagen, has laid off about 150 people and slowed the pace of hiring, making it the latest tech company…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) Comedian Lewis Black has sued audio streaming service Pandora for $10 million over copyright infringement.The comedian, who appears on The Daily Show, alleged that the platform ran recordings of his performances…

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Micro-blogging platform Twitter has laid off 30 per cent employees from its talent acquisition team amid the $44 billion takeover by Elon Musk, the media reported on Friday.A Twitter spokesperson confirmed these…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) Indian-origin Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani, the former business partner and 'boyfriend in secret' of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of healthcare company Therano, has been found guilty of defrauding Theranos…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) At least seven kids, under age 15, have lost their lives owing to the infamous 'blackout challenge' on Chinese short-video making app TikTok that encourages users to "choke themselves with belts, purse strings,…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) Tech giant Meta has announced that users can now log in to virtual reality (VR) headsets without using their Facebook credentials.In a Facebook post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that users will not need a Facebook…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) Tech billionaire Elon Musk has shown his support for large families a day after court documents revealed the tech billionaire had twins with a senior executive at one of his companies.On the microblogging…

San Francisco, July 8 (IANS) Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has confirmed that the US Secret Service Director James Murray, who is retiring from his current post, will join the company as a chief security officer at the end of the…

New York, July 7 (IANS) An advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has deliberated on how to move forward to allow clinical trials to test pig-to-human organ transplants, media reports said.The process, known as…

New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Social discussion forum Reddit on Thursday announced Blockchain-backed collectible avatars or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that will soon be available for purchase on the platform.Designed by visual artists, new,…

Geneva, July 7 (IANS) Monkeypox infections have claimed two more lives, taking the total toll to three since the beginning of the year, the World Health Organisation said in a report on Thursday."From January 1 to July 4, 6,027 laboratory…

London, July 7 (IANS) In an unprecedented move, the heads of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the UK domestic security service MI5 jointly warned about imminent threats by the Chinese government's global espionage…

Geneva, July 7 (IANS) Unlike other Covid variants, Omicron appears to be able to evade the antibodies generated by all other variants, according to a study.A team from the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases of the University of Geneva…

New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Edtech platform BYJU's on Thursday announced that it has roped in two former Amazon executives -- Sunil Sharma and Darshan Bhandari -- to further enhance its learning products and solutions.Sharma has been appointed…

New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) captured nearly 70 per cent share of global smartphone chipset market in Q1, followed by Samsung Foundry at 30 per cent market share, a new report has said.TSMC…