Technology

In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million. The video by digital artist Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, was authenticated by blockchain, which serves as a digital signature to certify who owns it and …

Telegram released an update this week which brings users an auto-delete timer, home screen widgets, and unlimited group members in chats, among other exciting new features. In a blog post on its website, the messaging app outlined the new features in great detail. Auto-delete messages Users that do not wish for messages to last forever can delete messages for all …

Unless you’re the world’s richest person, you shouldn’t be buying Bitcoin, said Bill Gates in a TV interview. Gates, the world’s third-richest man after Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, took a shot at the Tesla CEO after the electric vehicle maker announced taking a $1.5 billion stake in Bitcoin. ‘Elon has tons of money and he’s very sophisticated, so I …

it LONDON: Bitcoin fell over 6% on Friday to its lowest in two weeks as a rout in global bond markets sent yields flying and sparked a sell-off in riskier assets. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency slumped as low as $44,451 before recovering most of its losses. It was last trading down 1.2% at $46,525, on course for a drop of …

Facebook Messenger users are having problems logging in and sending messages in some parts of the world, while Instagram appears to be mostly having newsfeed problems. The sites were hit by a raft of complaints on the outage tracking website Down Detector DownDetector indeed confirms there are problems hitting Facebook Messenger, and the outage map indicates the service is down in …

SYDNEY: Facebook Inc ended a one-week blackout of Australian news on its popular social media site on Friday and announced preliminary commercial agreements with three small local publishers. The moves reflected easing tensions between the U.S. company and the Australian government, a day after the country’s parliament passed a law forcing it and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay local media …

NEW DELHI: India announced new rules on Thursday to regulate big social media firms, such as Facebook and Twitter, the latest effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to tighten control over Big Tech firms. The rules come after Twitter ignored orders to drop content on farmers’ protests, fuelling the goverment’s zeal, dating from 2018, to clamp down on dissent. …

TikTok, a video-sharing social networking service, has announced new privacy protections for teen users. The video-sharing app is implementing new settings and controls in order to better protect its users who are under 18, according to press release. The new changes include defaulting all accounts for users between the ages of 13 and 15 to private and limiting comments to …

CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface. The footage was so good and the images so breathtaking that members of the rover team said …

WASHINGTON: Americans who rely on social media as their main source of news are more likely believe false or unproven stories about important topics such as politics and Covid-19, a survey showed on Monday. The Pew Research Centre report found that people who used social platforms for news were less informed about major public affairs topics and more susceptible to …