Technology

  • Twitter’s revenue nosedived 40% in Dec as advertisers left: Report

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    San Francisco, March 4 Despite Elon Musk's efforts to monetize Twitter, the micro-blogging platform reported a massive 40 percent drop in revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, the media reported on Saturday. Several advertisers "ditched the social-media platform following Elon Musk's takeover", the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people ...
  • How our body triggers anxiety

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    Washington, March 3 The brain and the heart can work in tandem to produce anxiety, according to a new mice study. The study, published in the journal Nature, detangles the link to whether emotions drive bodily functions or vice versa. It showed that while fear and anxiety can make your ...
  • UK researchers’ new AI tech to pick donor organs for transplant

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    London, March 3 British researchers are developing a novel technology based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will pick donor organs for transplant on a much better level than humans, the media reported. The new technology known as OrQA -- Organ Quality Assessment -- uses AI and its "memory" of tens ...
  • Twitter expands Blue service to more than 20 countries

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    New Delhi, March 3 Micro-blogging platform Twitter has expanded its Blue subscription service to more than 20 countries in Europe. The countries include the Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, and Cyprus, according to ...
  • Twitter is where writers and leaders spend their time: Musk

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    San Francisco, March 2 Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said that Twitter is a platform where writers and leaders spend their time, even though a "few other social networks" are actually bigger. Musk tweeted: "The ability of Twitter advertising to reach the most influential people in the world is ...
  • YouTube’s English Help forum disables posts, new comments

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    San Francisco, March 2 Google-owned YouTube has disabled new posts and comments on its English Help forum as it switches to a read-only mode ahead of "improvements" in the next several months. The English Community forum has always been a place for users and creators to discuss YouTube with each ...
  • Eating oily fish, and flaxseed can protect you against severe Covid

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    London, March 2 Consuming oily fish like salmon, flaxseeds, and walnuts, which can increase your levels of omega-3 fatty acids, may protect you against severe Covid, according to a study. The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN), showed that fatty acids such as EPA and DHA ...
  • China’s Zhurong rover reveals complex layers under Mars surface

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    Beijing, March 1 The radars on China's Martian rover Zhurong have detected shallow impact craters and other geologic structures 5 metres beneath the surface of Mars. Much of the Martian surface is covered with a weathering layer (regolith or soil) produced by long-term surface processes such as impact gardening, eolian ...
  • Google Chrome’s latest update extends MacBook battery life

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    San Francisco, March 1 Tech giant Google has announced various updates to its Chrome web browser that will increase the battery life on MacBooks, extending the usage users can get from a single charge. With improved systems like memory compression and JavaScript timers, MacBook users can now browse the web ...
  • FTX fraud: Indian-origin Nishad Singh pleads guilty to criminal charges

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    San Francisco, March 1 Indian-origin Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has finally pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was currently cooperating with the US prosecutors in the alleged billion-dollar scam at the crypto trading platform run by former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried who is ...