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NASA, ESA set to send Solar Orbiter probe to Sun
Washington: NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Solar Orbiter mission to snap the first pictures of the Sun's north and south poles is scheduled to begin on Sunday during a two-hour launch window that opens at 11.03 p.m. EST (9.33 am…
PhonePe introduces chat feature on iOS, Android
New Delhi: In a bid to make it easier for users to have a conversation on the platform, digital payments player PhonePe has launched a new chat feature on the app.
Through this feature, users can now request money or confirm the receipt…
NASA bids farewell to Spitzer telescope
Miami: NASA has said goodbye to the Spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service using infrared light to unveil otherwise invisible features of the universe, including seven planets the size of Earth around the star Trappist-1.…
Facebook blames Apple iOS for Bezos’s phone hacking
London: Facebook has blamed Apple's operating system for the hacking of Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos's phone, saying WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is unhackable.
Investigators believe that Bezos's iPhone was compromised after he…
Space rock twice the size of Big Ben to skim past Earth
Washington: NASA is closely monitoring an asteroid with an estimated diameter of about 755 feet -- larger than the Golden Gate Bridge tower or more than twice the height of London's Big Ben -- that is currently heading towards Earth and is…
Facebook to send notifications for third-party logins
San Francisco: Facebook has added a new login feature that will notify users whenever they log into a third-party app or website using their account.
This login notification will alert the user every time a third-party application will…
After Google, Twitter warns Indian users about data breach
New Delhi: In an extremely stressful year for Internet users, Twitter on Saturday admitted a malicious code was inserted into its app by a bad actor that may have compromised some users' information worldwide, including in India, as people…
Sundar Pichai gets whopping $242mn stock package in new role
San Francisco: Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take home $240 million stock package ($90 million of it tied to Alphabet's performance) on top of a $2 million annual salary in 2020.
Alphabet said in a Securities Exchange…
WhatsApp will not work on these android smartphones from Feb 1
Bhubaneswar: Instant messaging app ‘WhatsApp’ will withdraw its services from some android smartphones from February 1 next year.
As per the recently updated information on the app’s FAQ section, WhatsApp will not run on Android 2.3.7…
NASA’s 1st solar probe results unravel Sun’s mysteries
Washington: Revealing the findings from its historic probe to "touch" the Sun for the first time, NASA has said that the results will help scientists rewrite the models they use to understand and predict the space weather around our planet…