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WISA Woodsat is a 10x10x10 cm nano satellite built up from standardised boxes and surface panels made from plywood

World's first wooden satellite to be launched from New Zealand

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The satellite, designed and built in Finland will orbit at around 500-600 km altitude in a roughly polar Sun-synchronous orbit.

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Google opens Workspace for all Gmail users.

Google opens Workspace for all Gmail users

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Amazon announces ML skills development programme in India

Ishan Patra The e-commerce giant through its ML Summer School will conduct a three-day course starting in July that will cover a wide range of concepts in ML from fundamentals to advanced and link them to practical industry applications.

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‘Zoom not focussed on competition, has enough ideas to execute for the next five years’

Divya Kala Bhavani An exclusive interview with Velchamy Sankarlingam, Zoom’s President of Product and Engineering, dives into Zoom Events, ‘Zoom-bombing’ and security, and why the company is not worried about Apple’s FaceTime Links.

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Facebook’s global ads chief quits after 10-year stint

Sowmya Ramasubramanian Everson played a key role in scaling up the social network’s ad business, making it one of the largest advertising platforms

The major websites were inaccessible due to an issue with the content delivery network (CDN) of Fastly, an American cloud computing service provider.

Explained | What is CDN and how is it linked to the massive internet outage?

Abhishek Chatterjee Aditya Saroha CDN delivers content from the website to users in different geographies in a quick, reliable, secure and efficient way.

Twitter has said that it intends to comply with India's IT rules but needs more time

Will provide details of compliance officer in a week: Twitter tells government

Yuthika Bhargava The government had sent out “one last notice” to Twitter seeking immediate compliance with the new IT rules.

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The ring with an integrated RFID chip can open a smart door.

A smart ring to replace your wallet, house key

Ishan Patra Concealed inside the ring is an RFID chip that can enable people to pay at the supermarket checkout counter, open a smart door, act as a health insurance card, or replace a key card at the hotel.

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Alienware launches new X-Series gaming laptops

Ishan Patra The Alienware x15 and Alienware x17 are the thinnest 15- and 17-inch gaming laptops from the company.

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Amazon announces ML skills development programme in India

House panel on IT summons Twitter

Google opens Workspace for all Gmail users

World's first wooden satellite to be launched from New Zealand

U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data

Samsung enters Europe with Vodafone 5G network deal in Britain

El Salvador bitcoin transfers soar, but still a fraction of dollar remittances

The Central American country last week became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, with President Nayib Bukele touting the cryptocurrency's potential as a remittance currency for Salvadorans overseas.

Toshiba registers new quantum record

The experiment is a positive step towards the future quantum Internet, a global network of quantum computers connected by distance communication lines.

Nigeria's Twitter ban leaves some businesses in the lurch

Scores of small and medium-sized businesses across Africa's most populous nation - and largest economy - are reeling from the indefinite suspension of the social media site

Bitcoin jumps after Musk says Tesla could use it again

Musk has taken issue with the vast computing power required to process bitcoin transactions and in early June posted messages appearing to lament a breakup with bitcoin

Too many apps at work are making employees less productive: report

The findings come at a time when many companies worldwide are shifting to a permanent remote-working set up, making the use of technology more important than ever

The gaming highlights that ruled E3 2021

Mark your calendars, players! The pandemic has not stopped 2021’s biggest video games event, E3, from shelling out some gaming goodness, from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to the biggest Forza Horizon game yet

Microsoft working to bring the Xbox experience to more people globally

The Redmond, Washington-based firm is working with TV manufactures for an Xbox app, and building streaming devices that will be compatible with different screens.

Honeywell joins hands with Cambridge Quantum Computing to form a new company

According to Honeywell, the merger will be completed in the third quarter of 2021 and will set the pace for what is projected to become a $1 trillion quantum computing industry over the next three decades.

China's internet watchdog issues notices to 129 mobile apps for illegally collecting personal info

China has intensified efforts against personal information infringements through administrative and legal measures in recent years.

'Divine Vessel' to mark China's first human spaceflight since 2016

China, which aims to become a major space faring power by 2030, in May became the second country to put a rover on Mars,two years after landing the first spacecraft on the far side of the moon.

Google is using AI to design chipsets in just six hours

The new chips are said to be superior or comparable to those produced by humans in all key metrics including power consumption, performance and chip area.

Bills that could force Big Tech breakups unveiled in House

It concluded that the four tech giants have abused their market power by charging excessive fees, imposing tough contract terms and extracting valuable data from individuals and businesses that rely on them.

Globally people spent 86% more time on travel apps; India’s railway booking app among top installs list

The trend indicates the global travel market is witnessing a recovery, with an uptick in vaccinations and eased lockdown restrictions in several parts of the world

Musk says Tesla will accept bitcoin when miners use reasonable clean energy

Tesla will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions when there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners.

Can extradite cyber criminals to U.S only on reciprocal basis, says Putin

Biden to raise the issue of ‘cyberattacks’ in meet with Putin.

Data breaches expose emails, passwords of several government officials to hackers

IDs on @nic.in, @gov.in domains compromised

‘Zoom not focussed on competition, has enough ideas to execute for the next five years’

An exclusive interview with Velchamy Sankarlingam, Zoom’s President of Product and Engineering, dives into Zoom Events, ‘Zoom-bombing’ and security, and why the company is not worried about Apple’s FaceTime Links.

NaadSadhana app: from a simple tuner to a complex AI Indian Classical music creator

Pune-based musician-developer Sandeep Ranade discusses the evolution of his Artificial Intelligence music app NaadSadhana that helps Indian Classical musicians tune, synthesise and create music. The app won in the Innovation category at the Apple Design Awards during WWDC21.

Weekly Bytes | Tesla Model S ‘Plaid’ launch, Facebook building smartwatch, and more

Here's our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size.

German environmental groups file objection against Tesla gigafactory permit

The groups, Gruene Liga and NABU, said they will go to court if the state authorities fail to file for a permit suspension by June 16.

U.K. competition watchdog secures Google commitments on third-party cookies

Google had said its new technology - called the Privacy Sandbox - would allow users to receive relevant advertising without being tracked on an individual level.

Fall in e-waste generation in poor countries shows growing digital divide, report says

E-waste in poor countries is managed inappropriately by the informal sector in open burning and acid baths, which are polluting the environment and depleting valuable resources

In a first, Boeing's unmanned aircraft completes mid-air refuelling

During a test flight on June 4, a Boeing-owned unmanned MQ-25 T1 aircraft refuelled a U.S. navy F/A-18 fighter jet in mid-air.

Bharti Airtel's Ajai Puri re-elected as COAI chairman for 2021-22

The association "is optimistic about the future of the industry and the opportunities ahead, as 5G and allied technologies get closer to commercial deployment".

India, Australia to expand cyber security cooperation

The two sides discussed a range of issues relating to emerging technologies in the cyber domain at the first meeting of the India-Australia Joint Working Group (JWG) on cyber security cooperation, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

Apple hires former BMW, Canoo executive for car project

The iPhone maker's automotive efforts, known as Project Titan, have proceeded unevenly since 2014 when Apple first started designing its own vehicle from scratch.

Hackers break into EA, steal source code for 'FIFA 21'

Shares of the company fell nearly 2% to $143.50 after the report.

Musk’s Loop system begins transporting people underground

The system “resembles an underground highway” and is designed to transport people to their destination using Tesla cars.

Government agencies can analyse WhatsApp chats, Narcotics Control Bureau tells Punjab and Haryana High Court

Conversations of accused in drug possession case sent for forensic de-encryption

Apple gets more inclusive with improved Accessibility tools for iOS 15 and watchOS 8

Amid the many announcements made during Apple’s WWDC21 keynote, you may have missed the upcoming iOS and watchOS Accessibility features that support users with hearing, mobility, visual or cognitive challenges

A new protocol to transfer data over the Internet

Fastly, an internet infrastructure company, says the new internet protocol QUIC improves speed and security of data transfer, and has a faster recovery mechanism.

Global airline body says 'travel pass' app to go live in weeks

The mobile application, which has been tested by some airlines, was originally designed to facilitate passenger screening at the airport check-in and aircraft boarding stages.

Facebook’s global ads chief quits after 10-year stint

Everson played a key role in scaling up the social network’s ad business, making it one of the largest advertising platforms

Google to build the longest undersea cable in the world

With the new cable, the tech giant aims to bolster internet connectivity to users in South America and enhance its existing cable investments in the region.

Can cyber insurance secure your organisation’s data

Several companies are considering taking cyber insurance to seek protection against huge financial losses, especially after the prevalence of large-scale cyberattacks including the recent ones on SolarWinds and the U.S. Colonial Pipeline

The FBI sold encrypted phones to criminals to curb organised crime, Europol says

The Australian Federal Police, along with the FBI, created a company called ANOM that sold over 12,000 encrypted devices to criminal syndicates operating in over 100 countries.

Twitter appoints new board member to replace Elliott's Cohn

Alemayehou will join the board immediately and Cohn will step down, the company said in a release.

British watchdog plans investigation into Amazon's use of data

The Competition and Markets Authority has been analysing Amazon's business for months, the newspaper said, adding regulator was focusing on how the online retailer uses the data it collects on its platform.

In a world first, El Salvador makes bitcoin legal tender

‘It will bring financial inclusion, investment, tourism, innovation and economic development for our country’, says President Nayib Bukele

U.S. drops plan to ban TikTok, WeChat

The Joe Biden administration will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China.

Explained | What is CDN and how is it linked to the massive internet outage?

CDN delivers content from the website to users in different geographies in a quick, reliable, secure and efficient way.

U.S. Senate passes sweeping bill to address China tech threat

The measure authorizes about $190 billion for provisions to strengthen U.S. technology and research - and would separately approve spending $54 billion to increase U.S. production and research into semiconductors and telecommunications equipment.

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27K | Uttar Pradesh scribe who expressed threat to life by ‘liquor mafia’, dies in ‘road accident’

Relatives offer flowers and perform rituals at the grave of a person who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium on the outskirts of Hyderabad on May 23, 2021.

19K | Excess deaths in Hyderabad are 10 times the official COVID-19 toll for Telangana

Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. File photo.

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A file photo of shops on S.P. Road closed, during the lockdown, in Bengaluru.

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Tanks pull back from the banks of Pangong Lake on February 10, 2021.

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Anand took on Aamir, Arijit and Anany Birla, among others, in an online challenge organised by chess.com

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10K | Government report flags ‘lapses’ in Nagaland bat study

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