Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

PayPal has suspended its services in Russia in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.

Online discussion forum 'Reddit' has categorically banned its users globally from posting links to Russian state-sponsored media outlets, including RT and Sputnik, as well as Russian advertisements on its platform.

Elon Musk’s space venture SpaceX has successfully launched 47 Starlink satellites. The Starlink 4-9 mission lifted off at 9.25 a.m. EST (6.25 a.m. PST) on March 3 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and was SpaceX’s ninth of a planned 52 launches...

Micro-blogging site Twitter has reportedly announced an expansion to its Birdwatch scheme, which sees volunteer fact-checkers vet potentially-misleading tweets.

Meta has pledged $15 million to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and neighboring countries amid the Russian invasion.

Germany on Friday said it has switched off a space telescope making the largest ever map of black holes in the universe on a Russian satellite in view of Moscow's ongoing war with Ukraine.

Namecheap announced today that it will provide sites protesting the current regime in Russia and Belarus with free domains and web hosting.

Streaming giant Netflix will not distribute a number of state-run channels in Russia as mandated by a new law, the company says, following reports that it could soon be forced to carry the networks.

Meta-owned American photos and videos sharing social networking service Instagram has announced that it will no longer be supporting the separate IGTV app.

SpaceX has sent a truck full of Starlink user terminals to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.

Meta has taken down a network for targeting people in Ukraine who posed as news editors, aviation engineers, and authors to spread misinformation around the Russian invasion across social media platforms.

Ukraine's government has raised almost $8 million in cryptocurrencies after posting appeals on social media for donations of bitcoin and other digital tokens, according to blockchain analysis company Elliptic.

A federal grand jury in San Diego returned an indictment today charging the founder of BitConnect with orchestrating a global Ponzi scheme. BitConnect is an alleged fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform that reached a peak market capitalization of $3.4 billion.

An international team of astronomers and scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), a pan-European radio telescope.

Samsung has unveiled its flagship laptop lineup, featuring the Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 with S Pen functionality and Galaxy Book2 Pro with 5G. The laptops feature 1080p FHD webcams and a wider field of view angles for a better video feed.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lost a whopping $13.3 billion as Russia invaded Ukraine, taking his net worth to below $200 billion as the global markets plummeted.

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is set to worsen the supply of semiconductors, as both countries are vital exporters of raw materials used in the manufacturing of various chipsets, industry players said on Friday.