Square Exceeds Profit Estimates as Bitcoin Volumes Rise
Payment services company Square Inc beat Wall Street’s expectations for quarterly profit on May. 6, 2021 as growing demand for bitcoin caused a surge in transactions using cryptocurrencies on its peer-to-peer service Cash App. Excluding one-time costs, the payment firm, led by Twitter Inc’s Jack Dorsey earned 41 cents per share, compared with the 16 […]
Twitter Suspends Accounts Made To Tweet Trump’s Statements
Last week, Twitter suspended a number of accounts set up to spread statements from former U.S President Donald Trump’s website. Trump had been permanently barred from Twitter following the riots of the U.S Capital in January. He has 88 million followers. Last Tuesday, Trump’s page added a new page titled “From the Desk of Donald […]
IBM’S New 2-nm Chip Technology Could Perform Faster
IBM has launched what it claims is the world’s first 2-nanometer chip manufacturing technology, which could be 45% faster than the 7-nanometer chips common in many laptops and phones today and has a 75% higher energy efficiency. The 2-nanometer chips will be smaller and faster than today’s latest 5-nanometer chips found in premium smartphones such […]
Google Implements Change For More Workplace Flexibility
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced a series of changes to give the tech giant’s employees more workplace flexibility as the company gets ready for a post-pandemic return. With the new development, Google will allow its employees a hybrid working week. While the hybrid working week would allow workers to work three days at the […]
Google Meet To Add Battery Saving Feature For Android, iOS
Google Meet, a video communications service developed by Google, will add a new setting to “limit data usage” on Android and iOS in addition to a web update that will be released next month. While Google Meet already customizes device, network, and set up to “provide the best possible meeting experience”, the new feature allows […]
Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce On Twitter
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have announced their divorce after nearly three decades of marriage. The couple announced the news of their separation on Twitter, telling the public of the latest development saying, “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision […]
New Twitter Feature Reviews ‘Mean’ Tweets Before Posting
Twitter announced a new feature that detects “mean” replies on its site before a user presses send. In recent months, users have urged the popular social media platform to do something about harassment and hateful messages on the platform. The new feature, introduced on May. 5, 2021, will initially be activated on accounts with English-language […]
AutoPilot Feature Unavailable in Texas Tesla Crash
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), recently released a two-page preliminary report on the fatal crash of a Tesla Model S in Texas last month, which revealed that the AutoPilot feature was likely unavailable at the time of the accident. The report also claims that local authorities believe there was no one in the driver’s […]
Ransomware Attack Disrupts City of Tulsa Online Services
Tulsa, Oklahoma recently suffered a ransomware attack on the city’s network, forcing the city to shut down its systems to prevent the further spread of the malware. While Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum stated that employees are already back at work and that the issue had no impact on 911 services or emergency response, shutting down […]
Microsoft Addresses Issues That Blocked Email Domains
In a recent statement on Twitter, Microsoft stated that it is investigating an Office 365 issue that has led to legitimate emails from multiple domains, including Google and LinkedIn, being marked as malicious and quarantined. According to Microsoft, the problem stems from an inadvertent blocking of valid and healthy domains, which resulted in legitimate e-mails […]
