San Francisco, Oct 31 (IANS) Chief Twit Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s board of directors after his takeover of the company, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Monday. Musk, according to the filing, became “the sole director of Twitter”, reports CNN. It confirms that instead of joining Twitter’s board of directors, […]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Elon Musk on Sunday confirmed that Twitter can soon expand or even get rid of the 280-character limit on the platform. Responding to a user who asked if we can get rid of character limits, or at least greatly expand it, Musk said: “Absolutely”. Musk, who has acquired Twitter for $44 […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally taken over as Twitter boss and his first job was to reportedly fire Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, the company’s policy chief Vijaya Gadde and others. According to a CNBC report citing sources on Friday, Agrawal and Segal have left the company’s San Francisco headquarters […]
New York, Oct 25 (IANS) Contrary to the popular belief that playing video games is linked with mental health problems, a new study has found that it may be associated with better cognitive performance in children. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, found that those who reported playing video games for three hours per day […]
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) Oct 23 (IANS) In a historic maiden commercial flight, an Indian heavy-lift rocket GSLV MkIII – renamed for this mission as LVM3 M2, successfully orbited satellites of UK-based OneWeb. The 43.5 metre tall and weighing 644 ton LVM3 M2 rocket, carrying 36 satellites weighing totally 5,796 kg or about 5.7 ton, blasted off […]
San Francisco, Oct 16 (IANS) Tech giant Google has announced that Meet calls can now be transcribed into text, and users can further save them in a Google Doc format. According to Android Central, the saved file can be accessed from Google Drive.Google Meet is one of the most popular apps, especially after replacing the Google […]
San Francisco, Oct 16 (IANS) A Macintosh SE used by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at NeXt will be the highlight at an upcoming technology auction that could fetch $300,000. The History of Science and Technology, including the Space History auction held by Bonhams, features a wide array of documents and physical items connected to noteworthy events, […]
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Meta (formerly Facebook) Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen on Tuesday slammed The Wire for publishing two stories, which, according to Rosen, were “outlandish and riddled with falsities”. Rosen, in a Twitter thread, said that he wanted to set the record straight about two stories run this week by The Wire […]
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) The global electric vehicle production will grow at a compounded average annual growth rate (CAAGR) of 26 per cent, with volumes approaching 54.1 million units by 2029, a report has said. The EV Powertrain semiconductor market is forecast to grow at a CAAGR of 31 per cent to reach $27.3 billion […]
Stockholm, Oct 5 (IANS) Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless from the United States and Morten Meldal from Denmark shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday. Sharpless and Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of […]