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Abu Dhabi funds invest $150 million in Telegram messaging app
Telegram, along with messaging app Signal, have seen an increase in users this year amid privacy concerns
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Microsoft in talks to acquire Discord for more than $10 billion
Discord is a platform on which users coordinate group activities such as games, discussions, and even virtual parties
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NFT digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia up for auction
NFTs, a digital signature saved on blockchain ledgers that allows anyone to verify the ownership of items
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BoE governor wants UK bill to make Google tackle online scams
British government to introduce a legal requirement for Google to take down financial fraud websites
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With friendly rivalries, eSports gain traction in corporate world
Microsoft software engineer Daniel Jost has found a way to take on his peers
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Technology behind Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine can be used to fight cancer
Both Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna use messenger RNA (mRNA) to send genetic instructions to the human body's cells
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Why you need to stop using Google Chrome
Google reportedly cashes in your data for over $120 billion a year from ad revenue
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Facebook to launch Instagram for kids under 13
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri confirmed that a version for children under the age of thirteen is in the pipeline
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Qualcomm CEO says shortage of older chips likely to ease sooner
Demand has soared for chips in recent months, with panic buying further squeezing capacity and driving up costs
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Cyber-attacks on virus control system up by 400%
These attacks did not lead to a leak of confidential research or personal information
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Tesla cars banned from China's military complexes on security concerns
Tesla sold 147,445 cars in China last year, or 30% of its total deliveries
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US Justice Department probing Visa over debit practices
The Justice Department is probing whether Visa uses anti-competitive practices in the debit-card market
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Jury tells Apple to pay $308.5 million for patent infringement
Apple successfully challenged PMC’s case at the US patent office
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Apple CEO Cook, executives on tentative list of witnesses in Epic Games case
The iPhone maker has been at loggerheads with Epic Games, the creator of the popular game Fortnite
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Twitter mulls when to cut off rule-breaking world leaders
Twitter will seek public input on when and how it should ban world leaders
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YouTube to roll out short-form video service in US to take on TikTok
Shorts currently records more than 6.5 billion daily views globally
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SpaceX engineer pleads guilty to selling insider trading tips on dark web
James Roland Jones faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison
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NASA completes major test on rocket that could take humans back to the moon
NASA aims to send an uncrewed spacecraft to orbit the moon in November and return US astronauts to the moon by 2024
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PUBG to launch new updates, content and special events
PUBG is rolling out its first CG movie titled ‘The Growth' alongside the release of exciting gaming updates
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Payment startups big winners of e-commerce boom
Covid-19 has forced people to increasingly embrace e-commerce
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Yemeni women use solar to light up homes, one village at a time
Iman Hadi and her burqa-clad colleagues are achieving what many would have thought unthinkable
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WhatsApp hires Amazon Pay's Mahatme to lead India payments
WhatsApp also has plans to partner with banks to offer financial services such as pensions and insurance
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Facebook services including WhatsApp back online after worldwide outage
The outage affected millions of people around the globe
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Long-awaited 'Super Mario' theme park opens in Japan
Nintendo's first-ever theme park, featuring a 'Mario Kart ride in a real-life Bowser's Castle, opened in Japan
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Why does bitcoin use 10 times more electricity than Google
The bitcoin market now exceeds $1 trillion with its price rising tenfold in a year
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Coronavirus variants found to be deadlier and more contagious
Antibodies induced by vaccines are dramatically less effective at neutralizing some of the coronavirus variants
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France opens privacy probe into audio app Clubhouse
France's data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Clubhouse, a US-based audio chat app
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Pakistani province plans to build pilot cryptocurrency mining farms
Pakistan has formed a federal committee to formulate a new crypto policy
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Once a wet world: Mars had abundant bodies of water on its surface
Mars may have possessed liquid water on its surface approximately equivalent in volume to half of the Atlantic Ocean
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China delivers on threats to rein in internet economy
Beijing is making good on its threats to clamp down on the sprawling 'platform economy'
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More US states join Texas-led antitrust lawsuit against Google
Lawsuit alleges Google quietly teams with its closest online advertising competitor, Facebook
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Facebook launches fund for human rights defenders facing threat
Facebook said the fund, the size of which was not disclosed, will provide offline aid to the defenders
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Adults can no longer DM teens who don’t follow them on Instagram
Instagram is also going to start using prompts to encourage teens to be cautious in conversations with adults
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Google to cut app store fee by half on developers' first $1 million in sales
Epic Games said in a statement that Google’s move only alleviates some of the financial burden of developers
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TikTok considers introducing group chat feature this year
Group messaging is part of owner ByteDance’s plan to develop TikTok into more of a “social interactions app”
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Encrypted messaging app Signal stops working in China
China’s cyber authorities have become increasingly strict in recent years
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Software startup Sprinklr confidentially files for IPO
The New York-based firm provides software that helps its clients with marketing, advertising, and customer engagement
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Bitcoin falls after weekend record high as India considers a ban
India is preparing a bill that would criminalise possession, issuance, mining, trading, and transferring crypto-assets
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Covid-19 test accuracy may vary by time of day
The accuracy of gold-standard PCR tests of nasopharyngeal swab samples may vary by time of day
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AMD launches 'Milan' chip for data centers as battle with Intel intensifies
The 'Milan' chip and its predecessor have both outperformed Intel’s chips
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Elon Musk officially proclaimed Tesla's 'Technoking'
The decision was announced in an administrative document sent to the American Financial Markets Authority (SEC)
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Bitcoin ATMs are coming to a gas station near you
There are now bitcoin ATMs in almost every state, according to an online map by Coin ATM Radar
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AKU-IED celebrates PiDay online
Teachers from different schools including private, government, and Madrassa schools participated in the conference
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Scientist develops retinal scan technology to identify early childhood autism
The technology was able to identify children with autism 95.7 per cent of the time
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India's draft e-commerce policy calls for equal treatment of sellers
India will require e-commerce firms to treat sellers equally on their platforms and ensure transparency
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Oman blocks audio app Clubhouse citing lack of permit, but some fear censorship
Oman_blocks_Clubhouse was trending on social media in the country
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Facebook to label all posts about Covid-19 vaccines
Facebook has been criticized by lawmakers for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on its platforms
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Taxing used computers
The move will fall in direct conflict with the incumbent government’s Digital Pakistan Vision
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China eventually wants astronauts to stay on moon for long periods of time
In China’s next mission to the moon, lunar samples of the south pole will be retrieved
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Play as a tech CEO in this new board game about evil billionaires
Evil Corp hints that the character called 'Visionary' is based on Tesla CEO Elon Musk