Social media users looking for an alternative for Facebook-owned WhatsApp and were concerned about the changes brought in to the privacy policy of the service apparently took to the privacy-focused messaging apps Signal and Telegram resulting in a significant increase in the downloads of these two messaging apps. According to Sensor Tower, between January 6…
Political donations to those Republican Congress members who raised objections to the Electoral College’s votes are being suspended by some of the biggest companies of the United States. This decision, which is being taken by more companies by the day, follows the siege of the US Capitol last Wednesday by a pro-Trump mob. The latest…
Microsoft founder and the third richest person in the world Bill Gates has entered a bidding war worth £3bn to purchase the largest private jet operator of the world even as gates also prepared to publish a new book titled ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’. Much of the $134bn personal wealth of Gates is…
The social media site more popular in the United States – Parler, has gone offline following the decision of Amazon to withdraw support to the so called “free speech” social networking site. The social media platform had been very dependent on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service and was known to be striving to…
A team of experts from the World Health Organization will be going to China this month to investigate the origin of the novel coronavirus pandemic but people should have “very low” expectations that the visit will be enough for the global health body to come to a conclusion about the role of the Chinese authorities…
A shortage of semiconductors will force top auto companies to cut vehicle production this month, said Ford Motor Co, Toyota Motor Corp, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Nissan Motor Co Ltd. These four global auto companies are the latest ones to say that they have been hit by a shortage of chip with an increase of…
Electric car maker tesla’s co-founder and CEO Elon Musk surged ahead Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to become the wealthiest person in the world according to calculations done by Bloomberg. Just a 6 per cent rise in the stock price of Tesla on Thursday propped up the personal wealth of Musk by a huge…
2020 is now the joint record holder along with 2016 for the hottest year which also marked the culmination of the hottest decade in recorded human history. This was confirmed by researchers on Friday even as the world struggles to cope up with and implement strategies to address global climate change. A continued upward trend…
The new Covid-19 mRNA vaccine developed by the United States based pharmaceutical company Moderna has the potential to offer humans administered with it protection from the disease for a time period that can extend to up to two years, said the company’s chief however according executive on Thursday. However according to analysts and experts, for…
With people in the United Kingdom being forced to celebrate at home during the festive season because of the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the second wave of the Covid-19, the British supermarket group Sainsbury’s beat its own expectations for trading, prompting the company to raise its profit outlook. In the company’s fiscal…
