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Musk will let Twitter users make digital payments, earn more
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Musk will let Twitter users make digital payments, earn more

San Francisco, Nov 10: As more advertisers pause spending on Twitter, Elon Musk has shared his digital payments plans with them where users will be able to send money to others like China's WeChat. In a live-streamed meeting with advertisers, Musk detailed his vision for Twitter to enter the...
Twitter to let users post long-form tweets, help creators monetise: Musk
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Twitter to let users post long-form tweets, help creators monetise: Musk

New Delhi, Nov 6: Elon Musk on Sunday said that Twitter will soon add the ability to attach long-form text to tweets, along with creator monetisation for all forms of content. In a series of tweets, the new Twitter CEO said that more details about these features will be revealed in the next two...
Musk axes human rights, accessibility, AI ethics, curation teams at Twitter
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Musk axes human rights, accessibility, AI ethics, curation teams at Twitter

New Delhi, Nov 5: Elon Musk has axed entire departments at Twitter in his exercise to deeply trim its workforce by half and human rights, accessibility, AI ethics and curation and communications teams were hit the hardest. Former Twitter Human Rights Counsel Shannon Raj Singh tweeted that the...
Closest known black hole to Earth spotted by astronomers
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Closest known black hole to Earth spotted by astronomers

Cape Canaveral (US), Nov 4: Astronomers have discovered the closest known black hole to Earth, just 1,600 light-years away. Scientists reported Friday that this black hole is 10 times more massive than our sun. And it's three times closer than the previous record-holder. It was identified by...
Musks job cut hits Twitter India, unaffected employees living in constant fear
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Musk's job cut hits Twitter India, unaffected employees living in constant fear

New Delhi, Nov 4: For most of the nearly 200-strong Twitter India workforce, Friday morning came with total chaos when they lost access to their official emails and internal Slack and group chats, as they were unfortunate to be part of the global sacking in the most brutal Elon Musk way. Some of...
Musk begins laying off Twitter employees, shuts offices temporarily
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Musk begins laying off Twitter employees, shuts offices 'temporarily'

San Francisco, Nov 4: Twitter has notified employees that it will be "reducing its global workforce" on Friday, as its new CEO Elon Musk aims to cut roughly half of its 7,600-strong workforce. Employees were set to receive an email by 9 a.m. PST (9.30 p.m. India time) confirming whether they have...
Twitter back after brief outage for some Indian users
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Twitter back after brief outage for some Indian users

New Delhi, Nov 4: Twitter suffered a brief outage for some Indian users on Friday morning and came back to life soon, as the new CEO Elon Musk prepared to sack several employees starting Friday.Twitter on mobile was working fine but users on the desktop version had some troubles logging into...
Twitters new boss Elon Musk says blue tick on sale for USD 8 per month
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Twitter's new boss Elon Musk says blue tick on sale for USD 8 per month

New York, Nov 2: Twitter's new owner billionaire Elon Musk announced that the verification blue tick in front of a user's name that authenticates the account will now be available at a price of eight dollars per month. Musk blasted the "current lords and peasants' system for who has or doesn't have...
Elon Musk ropes in Indian-origin technology executive as he implements changes in Twitter
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Elon Musk ropes in Indian-origin technology executive as he implements changes...

New York, Nov 1: Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin technology executive, is "helping out" Twitter's new owner Elon Musk as he revamps the social media giant following its acquisition by the billionaire entrepreneur. Krishnan is a general partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen...
ISRO carries out key test of its heaviest rockets engine
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ISRO carries out key test of its heaviest rocket's engine

Bengaluru, Oct 29: The flight acceptance hot test of CE-20 engine has been carried out in the High-Altitude Test facility of ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu. The engine is assigned for the LVM3-M3 mission identified for launching the next 36 OneWeb India-1 satellites,...
Parag Agrawals 11-month tenure as Twitter CEO ends as Elon Musk takes control
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Parag Agrawal's 11-month tenure as Twitter CEO ends as Elon Musk takes control

New York, Oct 28: When Parag Agrawal was appointed CEO of Twitter in November 2021, the IIT graduate joined a steadily growing club of executives from India rising to the top of global corporations, but the 38-year-old executive's brief tenure at the helm of the social media giant was challenging...
NASAs Lucy spacecraft captures images of Earth, Moon ahead of gravity assist
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of Earth, Moon ahead of gravity assist

Washington, Oct 26: A NASA spacecraft named Lucy, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, has captured an stunning image of Earth, along with a photo of the Earth and the Moon, as part of gravity assist to gain some of the orbital energy it needs to travel to this never-before-visited...
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