Elon Musk Throws A Solution For Ailing Nasa’s Artemis 1 Mission
As NASA scrubbed the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the Moon once again, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday came up with a suggestion for the ailing mission that will finally land astronauts on the lunar surface after decades. NASA engineers could not...
Social Media App Parler Returns To Google’s Play Store
Parler is returning to Google’s app store more than 1-1/2 years after the company removed it following the U.S. Capitol riots in January 2021. The app was launched in 2018 and styled itself as a free-speech space for those seeking an alternative to platforms such...
OfferUp Scams To Watch Out For
OfferUp is a mobile-focused market centered on the buying and selling of goods online or in person. It works by encouraging you to search its large catalog of goods until you find what you’re looking for.
Zoom Allows Customers Their Own Encryption Keys To Protect Data
Zoom on Friday announced a new offering that will allow users to protect certain data stored at rest within the Zoom Cloud infrastructure using their own encryption keys. The platform said its newest advanced security offering — Customer Managed Key (CMK) — is designed to...
YouTube Showing Election-Fraud Videos To Users Skeptical About 2020 US Polls
YouTube is showing more election-fraud videos to users already skeptical about the legitimacy of the 2020 US presidential election, a study has revealed, showing how its algorithms perpetuate existing misperceptions. The study, published in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, found that those most...
NASA Captures 1st Direct Image Of Exoplanet Outside Our Solar System
For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet called ‘HIP 65426 b’ is a gas giant, meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable....
Twitter Confirms Edit Tweet Test, To Arrive For Blue Users First
The microblogging site Twitter announced it has finally rolled out a small test for its much-awaited Edit Tweet feature, which will be available for Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming weeks. Edit Tweet is currently being tested by the Twitter team internally, amid the ongoing...
Apple Settles Lawsuit With App Developer Over ‘Unfair Rejection’
Apple has settled a lawsuit with app developer Kosta Eleftheriou who claimed that the tech giant unfairly rejected his app from App Store which resulted in heavy monetary losses. The lawsuit, filed in March last year, alleged that Apple made it difficult for him to...
Facebook To Shut Down Neighborhoods Feature On Oct 1
Facebook has announced to shut down a new hyperlocal feature called Neighborhoods that was to provide a dedicated space to help people connect with neighbors, participate in the local community and discover new places nearby. Facebook said it will end its test of Neighborhoods on...
Android 14 To Bring Direct Satellite Connectivity To Smartphones
Google said that the upcoming Android 14 will “support our partners in enabling all of this” after SpaceX and T-Mobile unveiled plans to deliver direct satellite connectivity to smartphones. On Twitter, Hiroshi Lockheimer, Senior Vice President of Platforms and Ecosystems at Google, described how it...
LG Unveils World’s First Bendable 42-Inch OLED TV
LG Electronics on Wednesday introduced the world’s first TV with a bendable 42-inch OLED screen and the display can go from completely flat to spectacularly curved, letting users choose from 20 levels of curvature for more immersive gaming experiences. Additionally, the screen of LG OLED...
Data Of 800 Million Chinese People Exposed Online
China is facing another massive data leak of its citizens as a huge database of at least 800 million records containing faces and vehicle license plates has been exposed online. The exposed data now disappeared from the internet, and belongs to a tech company called...
Crypto.com Accidentally Refunds Over $7 Million To Customer
Due to an unfortunate typo, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com mistakenly issued a customer A$10.5 million ($7.2 million) rather than the expected A$100 ($68), media reports say. Seven months later, when the exchange finally discovered the error, but till then some of the money had already gone,...
Microsoft Spots TikTok Bug That Could Expose Private Videos Of Millions
Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has discovered a vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android that can let hackers take over private, short-form videos of millions of users once they clicked on a malicious link. Microsoft discovered a high-severity vulnerability in the TikTok Android application,...
Russian Streaming Platform Confirms Data Breach Affecting 7.5 Million Users
Russian media streaming platform ‘START’ (start.ru) has confirmed a data breach that exposed 7.5 million users’ info. Start is a subscription-based international streaming service available worldwide with Russian-based production. The service is a part of START digital media holding that also includes production company Start,...
Facebook To Shut Down Standalone Gaming App In Oct
Meta is winding up its standalone Facebook Gaming app on both Android and iOS from October 28. The app will also be not available on Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Meta did not elaborate on why it is shuttering the standalone gaming app....
Elon Musk Seeks To Delay Twitter Trial Citing Whistleblower’s Testimony
Elon Musk is trying to buy more time from the court to kick off the Twitter trial, set for October 17, citing the upcoming testimony by whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko. Musk’s legal team has proposed a new timeline that would push the week-long trial to...
NASA Aims Sep 3 As Next Artemis Moon Mission Launch Attempt
The US space agency will now target September 3 as the new launch date for the Artemis I Moon mission that was scrubbed last Monday owing to a technical glitch with one of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s engines. NASA Mission managers met to...
Tesla Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over ‘Phantom Braking’ Issue
Tesla has been hit by a class-action lawsuit in the US over a phantom braking problem that the lawsuit alleged turned “a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare”. The lawsuit, filed by Tesla owner Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern...
Twitter Planned To Make Money Via Monetising Porn On Its Platform
Twitter reportedly planned to monetize adult content on its platform this year, by allowing adult creators to sell subscriptions on the micro-blogging platform, and become profitable in a jiffy. According to The Verge, Twitter was set to become a competitor to adult creator website OnlyFans...
