Koo, the Indian social media platform that aimed to rival Twitter, is shutting down. Founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka announced the decision, citing failed partnership talks and high technology costs. The company started laying off a significant part of the workforce in April 20

New Delhi, Jun 29 (IANS): Meta-owned Instagram on Saturday suffered a major outage globally, including in India, as thousands of users were unable to load Reels and access other options. As per website outage tracking website Downdetector, over 6,500 users reported issues with accessing the

BJP leader and former Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday strongly rebutted tech mogul Elon Musk's call to eliminate electronic voting machines (EVMs), arguing that secure digital hardware is indeed achievable. Musk sparked a debate over the security of EVMs, suggesting that they shoul

Elon Musk, who is a father to nine kids, has often talked about social media's impact on kids. Last year, he had said that he never restricted his kids' social media use and it might have been a mistake. Now, in a recent address, the tech titan expressed significant concerns about the effect

Instagram and Facebook experience server issues. Users are reporting problems with page loading. Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, has recorded over 3,00,000 Facebook outages and over 47,000 outage reports for Instagram worldwide. Parent company Meta has not issued any statement on

Dec 21 (Reuters) - Social media platform X and X Pro suffered outages globally early Thursday, according to Downdetector.com. Users on X, formerly known as Twitter, were unable to view posts on the social media site with a message that said "Welcome to X!" Users encountered loading i

Elon Musk’s X is planning to charge users in New Zealand and the Philippines joining via the platform’s web application $1 per year as part of its programme to reduce bot activity. The subscription is part of X’s “Not A Bot” programme, which attempts to “bolste

Starting October 24, WhatsApp will stop working on several smartphones that are running relatively older versions of operating systems. This includes smartphones from Samsung, Google, Sony, LG and other brands . Why WhatsApp will stop working on these devices Every year, WhatsApp updates its co

Ending its seven-year long expedition, a NASA space capsule carrying samples from the surface of an asteroid is making its return to Earth on Sunday. If OSIRIS-REx makes a successful landing, it will mark the third and largest asteroid sample to have ever been brought to Earth in history. The

Chennai: 19 September 2023 (Agencies) After 17 days of circling Earth, India's solar observatory Aditya-L1 craft has been slingshot on a long journey towards its destination, 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth. In the wee hours of Tuesday (Indian Standard Time), ISRO issued commands to fire

India achieved a monumental milestone as Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down on the moon's surface on August 23. Now, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has shared an update on X (formerly known as Twitter).  The space agency unveiled images of Chandrayaan-3 lander, captured

Chandrayaan-3 MahaQuiz: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has invited Indian Citizens to particpate in the Chandrayaan-3 MahaQuiz honoring India’s amazing space exploration journey, to explore the wonders of the moon, and to demonstrate our love of science and discovery. To particip

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Sep 2 (IANS): India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C57 (PSLV-C57) lifted off with the country’s Aditya-L1 spacecraft to study the Sun, on Saturday morning. The PSLV-XL variant rocket carries the 1,480.7 kg Aditya-L1 spacecraft as its sole passenger

Paytm's parent entity One 97 Communication on Sunday denied any connection with the merchants that are currently under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) in its probe in connection with a Chinese loan app. In a statement, the fintech company said that none of the funds frozen by the c

New Delhi: MBBS students who returned to India due to Covid or Russia-Ukraine war and got degrees by June 30 will be allowed for Foreign Medical Graduate exam, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has informed Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. Posting on Twitter a copy of Union Health Minister's letter

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has expanded medical education in the state by sanctioning 16 new medical colleges even as proposals are afoot to set up 13 more, Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao said on Sunday. Rama Rao, who is the Chief Minister's son, said only f

The month of August elevated the base prices of several cryptocurrencies, however, majority cryptocurrencies saw losses as the month inches closer to its end. Bitcoin on Monday, August 29, opened with a minor price loss of 0.74 percent. As per Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber, BTC is currently tradi

Thiruvananthapuram: In the wake of criticism of the Kerala government's gender-neutral policy, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said that the Left dispensation was not going to decide what kind of uniforms children should wear to school. The CM said, in the state assembly, it was the pre