Category: Tech

Sat 14 May 2022: On Saturday, the price of Bitcoin was battling to break through $30,000 as demand in the cryptocurrency market remained poor. Bitcoin, the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency by market cap, was trading at $29,060 at 1210 GMT, down 4.7 percent on the day. Ethereum, the world’s largest altcoin, was also failing to […]

Sat 14 May 2022: Costa Rica, a Central American country, declared a “emergency” on Saturday as a result of continuous cyberattacks. The National Emergency Commission, led by President Rodrigo Chavez, declared a state of emergency to better deal with the attacks. The country’s Finance Ministry claimed its digital systems are still not working correctly, citing […]

Fri 13 May 2022: Elon Musk put his $44 billion purchase for Twitter Inc on hold on Friday, citing a lack of details on spam and bogus accounts. “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk said in a tweet. Twitter deal […]

Fri 13 May 2022: Astronomers have discovered the existence of a supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy, in what could be considered the astronomical discovery of the century. The image of this black hole was released simultaneously at six news conferences around the world. The image appears to be a lumpy doughnut-like […]

Thu 12 May 2022: Google announced on Wednesday that it had reached agreements with 300 European news publishers to comply with a recently enacted European Union copyright regulation. In Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, the Netherlands, and Ireland, the internet giant struck partnerships with national, local, and specialist news organizations, and said it is in talks […]

NASA’s Curiosity rover took this selfie on June 15, 2018, Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Wed 11 May 2022: Since its launch in November 2018, NASA’s InSight spacecraft has recorded the strongest-ever marsquake, measuring magnitude 5 on the Richter scale. The quake, “an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that occurred on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or […]

Fri 06 May 2022: Security researchers have warned that a new phishing campaign is targeting administrators of Facebook company pages. According to ZDNet, Abnormal Security discovered emails sent to Facebook users suggesting that if an issue is not resolved immediately, the account will be permanently terminated. The scam’s goal is to dupe people into passing […]