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No Contact Payment: Here Are The Best payments Apps for 2021

Like any other contactless payment option, mobile payments apps also have their fair share of pros and cons.

Jan 19, 2021

By Poulami Nag

Should You Accept WhatsApp's New Policy? App Giant Breaks Myths in New Post

The last date to accept WhatsApp's new policy is February 8, 2021.

Jan 19, 2021

By Trishna Das

Facebook

Video Urging Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to be Expelled Goes Viral on Social Media

The Really American video urging the expulsion of senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley has now been watched more than two million times.

Jan 19, 2021

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Microsoft Teams Maybe Collecting Data That Employers Can Use to Spy on Workers

It appears that the amount of data which the app collects presents privacy infringement for the users and the employers can manipulate and use that data to spy on their workers.

Jan 18, 2021

By Poulami Nag

Amid Uncertain Future, NASA's SLS Rocket Fails First Real Test After a Decade of Development

The eight-minute test of four Rocketdyne engines of the Space Launch System lasted just 67 seconds that could delay the Artemis I mission further.

Jan 18, 2021

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Nasa Spacex Space

Parler's Website Is Back Online; CEO Matze Hints at App's Comeback Soon

A note from the company read: "Now seems like the right time to remind you all — both lovers and haters — why we started this platform."

Jan 18, 2021

By R. Ghosh

Cybersecurity

Trump's Social Media Ban Helps Reduce Spread of Online False Claims on US Election

A California-based company Zignal has claimed that within a week of Donald Trump's ban from social media platforms, the spread of misinformation reduced significantly.

Jan 17, 2021

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Fake news

Hotel Chain Cancels Senator Josh Hawley's Florida Fundraiser for His Role in Inciting Capitol Riot

The fundraising event was scheduled to be held at Loews Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando between February 12 and 15 but the hotel chain pulled out.

Jan 17, 2021

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Hackers Disrupt Atlanta Synagogue Livestream of Georgia Senator-elect Raphael Warnock's Sermon

The Temple's Shabbat service honoring the memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was targeted by cybercriminals.

Jan 17, 2021

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Cybersecurity

Viral Video: Mass Evacuation at Frankfurt Airport After Man Shouts Allahu Akbar

Terminal 1 of Frankfurt Airport in Germany was evacuated after a man issued death threat to a federal police while shouting Allahu Akbar.

Jan 17, 2021

By Suman Priya Mendonca

UGNazi Hacker Group Targets Parler CEO John Matze and Threatens to Come at His Front Door

Parler app CEO John Matze and his family go into hiding after receiving death threats and security breaches.

Jan 17, 2021

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Cybersecurity

Hackers Behind EMA Cyberattack Manipulated Stolen Data to Sow Distrust in Covid-19 Vaccines

Hackers stole Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial data from EMA servers in December and leaked them on online forums, claiming they were defrauding people.

Jan 16, 2021

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Cybersecurity Coronavirus