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Russia blocks Facebook, Meta hits back with pausing all ads
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Russia blocks Facebook, Meta hits back with pausing all ads

New Delhi/Moscow, March 5: In an alarming censorship, Russia has blocked access to Facebook in the country. In response, its parent company Meta has paused all ads in Russia.Meta said that due to the difficulties of operating in Russia at this time, ads targeting people in Russia will be paused, and...
Indian scientists refute US researchers claim of radio wave signal from cosmic dawn
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Indian scientists refute US researchers' claim of radio wave signal from cosmic...

New Delhi, March 3: Indian researchers have refuted a recent claim of the discovery of a radio wave signal from cosmic dawn, the time in the infancy of the Universe when the first stars and galaxies came into existence, an official statement said on Thursday.A team of researchers from Arizona State...
Musk activates Starlink satellites to give Ukraine data backup
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Musk activates Starlink satellites to give Ukraine data backup

Kiev, Feb 27: Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has activated Starlink, his commercial internet network, in Ukraine, with "more terminals en route"."Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route," Musk wrote on Twitter.According to Politico, Musk's SpaceX has thousands of...
Twitter mistakenly blocked accounts sharing info on Russian-Ukraine war
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Twitter 'mistakenly' blocked accounts sharing info on Russian-Ukraine war

New Delhi/Kiev, Feb 24: After blocking several researchers' accounts as Russia began a military strike against Ukraine on Thursday, Twitter has admitted it "mistakenly" removed a number of accounts sharing details about Russian military activity.Several researchers sharing Russia-Ukraine information...
Worlds largest NFT marketplace OpenSea hacked, users lost NFTs
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World's largest NFT marketplace OpenSea hacked, users lost NFTs

New Delhi, Feb 20: World's largest NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace, OpenSea on Sunday confirmed that it has been hit by a phishing attack and at least 32 users had lost their valuable NFTs worth $1.7 million. OpenSea Co-Founder and CEO, Devin Finzer acknowledged the phishing attack,...
New polymer coating for clothes may keep Covid, bacteria at bay
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New polymer coating for clothes may keep Covid, bacteria at bay

Toronto, Feb 13: Worried if catching Covid or other bacterial infections during a hospital visit? Canadian researchers have developed an inexpensive, non-toxic coating for almost any fabric that decreases the infectivity of the virus that causes Covid-19 by up to 90 per cent."When you're...
Google Chrome gets new logo after 8 years
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Google Chrome gets new logo after 8 years

San Francisco, Feb 6: Google is changing its Chrome browser logo for the first time in eight years. Elvin Hu, a designer for Google Chrome, offers a first look at the logo's redesign in a thread on Twitter. "Some of you might have noticed a new icon in Chrome's Canary update today. Yes! we're...
Chandrayaan-3 scheduled for launch in August 2022, Lok Sabha told
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Chandrayaan-3 scheduled for launch in August 2022, Lok Sabha told

New Delhi, Feb 3: The Department of Space has planned as many as 19 missions this year even as the Chandrayaan-3, the next phase of India's mission to the moon, is scheduled for August 2022, the government told the Lok Sabha."Based on the learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the...
NASAs Artemis 1 moon mission rocket delayed till March
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NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission rocket delayed till March

Washington, Feb 3: NASA's much awaited 'Artemis 1' mission, that aims to return humans to the Moon, has been delayed until March.It was earlier scheduled for launch in February. In a statement on Wednesday, NASA announced that the 'Space Launch System' rocket and Orion spacecraft will not be rolled...
Elon Musk offers teen $5K to stop tracking his private jet location
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Elon Musk offers teen $5K to stop tracking his private jet location

San Francisco, Jan 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered an enterprising teenager $5,000 to remove a Twitter bot tracking the movements of his private plane. The billionaire reached out to the 19-year-old, Jack Sweeney, last November to express concern about a Twitter account he runs called...
Indian-origin scientist creates 1st molecular structure of Omicron protein
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Indian-origin scientist creates 1st molecular structure of Omicron protein

Toronto, Jan 22: An Indian-origin researcher at University of British Columbia (UBC) has created the world's first molecular-level structural analysis of the Omicron variant spike protein.Published in the Science journal, the analysis which is done at near atomic resolution using cryo-electron...
Report: Chinese Olympic app has serious security flaws
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Report: Chinese Olympic app has serious security flaws

Richmond, Jan 19: A smartphone app that's expected to be widely used by athletes and others attending next month's Winter Games in Beijing has glaring security problems that could expose sensitive data to interception, according to a report published Tuesday.Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group,...
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