San Francisco, Nov 27 (IANS) Google and Microsoft have both announced new agreements to lower their IT operations’ carbon footprint by using renewable energy sources in their data centres. According to ‘The Register’, Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Engie, a French utility company, for 100 MW of energy generated by the Moray […]
Bengaluru, Nov 16 (IANS) Beleaguered Japanese SoftBank Group is likely to sell shares worth around $215 million in financial payments major Paytm’s parent company via a block deal this week, the media reported on Wednesday. CNBC-TV18 reported, citing sources, that the Japanese investor is offering to sell 29 million shares in the digital payments and financial […]
Mumbai, Oct 31 (IANS) The BSE Sensex on Monday closed at 60,746.59 points, up by 786.74 points, mainly due to the US factors, said a senior official of Geojit Financial Services. “The ongoing rally which has taken the Sensex above 60,000 has been triggered mainly by the rally in the mother market US where the Dow […]
San Francisco, Oct 31 (IANS) Chief Twit Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s board of directors after his takeover of the company, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Monday. Musk, according to the filing, became “the sole director of Twitter”, reports CNN. It confirms that instead of joining Twitter’s board of directors, […]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Elon Musk on Sunday confirmed that Twitter can soon expand or even get rid of the 280-character limit on the platform. Responding to a user who asked if we can get rid of character limits, or at least greatly expand it, Musk said: “Absolutely”. Musk, who has acquired Twitter for $44 […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally taken over as Twitter boss and his first job was to reportedly fire Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, the company’s policy chief Vijaya Gadde and others. According to a CNBC report citing sources on Friday, Agrawal and Segal have left the company’s San Francisco headquarters […]
New York, Oct 25 (IANS) Contrary to the popular belief that playing video games is linked with mental health problems, a new study has found that it may be associated with better cognitive performance in children. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, found that those who reported playing video games for three hours per day […]
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) Oct 23 (IANS) In a historic maiden commercial flight, an Indian heavy-lift rocket GSLV MkIII – renamed for this mission as LVM3 M2, successfully orbited satellites of UK-based OneWeb. The 43.5 metre tall and weighing 644 ton LVM3 M2 rocket, carrying 36 satellites weighing totally 5,796 kg or about 5.7 ton, blasted off […]
San Francisco, Oct 16 (IANS) Tech giant Google has announced that Meet calls can now be transcribed into text, and users can further save them in a Google Doc format. According to Android Central, the saved file can be accessed from Google Drive.Google Meet is one of the most popular apps, especially after replacing the Google […]
San Francisco, Oct 16 (IANS) A Macintosh SE used by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at NeXt will be the highlight at an upcoming technology auction that could fetch $300,000. The History of Science and Technology, including the Space History auction held by Bonhams, features a wide array of documents and physical items connected to noteworthy events, […]