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The American social news aggregator and content creating platform Reddit announces hiring a team to design, create, and maintain a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) platform. As per the Greenhouse job posting, the social media giant is seeking a senior backend engineer to take the responsibility to design a platform for millions of users to design, purchase, […]

Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger has shared his thoughts on the ongoing global chip shortage, claiming it’ll continue to be a problem for some time. Speaking ahead of the company’s third quarter report, he says he expects the shortage to persist until at least 2023. In his interview with CNBC, Gelsinger says, although things are going […]

Facebook is reportedly planning to take up a new company name sometime within the coming week to reflect its recent momentum on building the metaverse. According to the insider report, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be talking about the name change during the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th. But of course, the change could […]

Facebook is finally beginning to roll out a small test of its digital wallet Novi, as the same launches in the US and Guatemala today, and with the rollout coming after over two years since it was first announced. As expected, the pilot program will ensure that users can receive and send money using the […]

Twitch may have just shared an update on the massive breach that happened last week. Taking to its webpage to share an update about the security incident, it said passwords remain secure and weren’t exposed. Twitch says passwords weren’t exposed in last week’s major data breach Explaining further about the incident, Twitch expresses full confidence […]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA is getting set to launch a newly built robotic explorer into the solar system. The spacecraft, named Lucy is reportedly going to be without a crew when it embarks on its journey to explore some asteroids in and around Jupiter. Lucy will be the first of such spacecrafts targeting […]

In a bid to get back on track in developing its HomePod software, Apple has reportedly rehired a former HomePod engineer, Afrooz Family, as the lead software engineer. According to the reports from Bloomberg, this move could possibly be indicating an attempt by Apple to make its HomePod compare even better to its major competitors. […]

Canada-based cleantech crypto miner, MintGreen has said that beginning from 2022, it will be partnering with Lonsdale Energy Corporation to supply heat to residents of North Vancouver in British Columbia. According to the announcement made on Thursday, MintGreen claims that its “digital boilers” are capable of preventing at least, 20,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases […]

VanMoof has announced its first high-speed electric bike (e-bike), the VanMoof V, which has the capability of reaching a 60km/h (37mph) top speed. According to Vanmoof, the company is launching the pedal-assisted e-bike today, so as to serve as a wake-up call to lawmakers and relevant authorities. The company says that it’s important that these […]

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has said that she is more than willing to speak to Facebook’s independent Oversight Board anytime she’s called upon. Expressing herself in a series of daring tweets on Monday, Haugen insisted that Facebook has been repeatedly dishonest to the board, and now she is looking forward to being able to share […]

While the fully electric Mercedes-Benz EQS is already a load of luxury and tech features, its range is not to be toyed with at all. At least, if the estimations of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regards to its range is anything to go by, then the Mercedes-Benz EQS is bringing the heat to […]

The Geneva International Motor Show that was initially planned to hold in February 2022, will no longer take place. In all honesty, the canceling of the show is not exactly surprising, seeing as the COVID pandemic is still not totally under control. Moreover, there’s also the problem of global chip shortage presently facing the auto […]

Volvo, Swedish automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles has said it would be producing only electric vehicles (EVs) by year 2030. Announcing its plan for an initial public offering, the Swedish automaker is hoping to raise more funds to accelerate its transition to an EV-only producing company. This announcement comes after last week’s reports that Polestar […]

Facebook Experience Worldwide Outage Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are all down, in what appears to be too much of a coincidence, and users of the social media platforms are beginning to ask questions. The outage occurred at about 11:41 am ET, around the same time that Facebook’s Antigone Davis was live on CNBC defending the […]

Electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian, with the support of Amazon and Ford has filed for an initial public offering on Friday at the Nasdaq exchange. The firm had since August, filed its IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but it became public knowledge on Friday. Electric vehicle manufacturer will trade on the Nasdaq […]

Around 6000 Coinbase customers were exploited by hackers in a recent multi-factor authentication scam, according to reports. Coinbase is one of the biggest cryptocurrency trading platforms with more than 68 million customers. People consider Coinbase as a secure platform for their investments. But, it seems that the developers are not vigilant enough. In a recent […]

TikTok may have just followed in the steps of other social media platforms as they all continue looking for ways to integrate NFTs into their platforms. All through this week, attention has been on the NFTs on Twitter. But now, TikTok is also announcing that its own creator-curated NFTs are incoming, and would be powered […]

VISA discloses the release of a new platform that allows the transfer of Central Bank Digital Currencies and stablecoins across different blockchains. This platform presents digital assets as a new form of payment. The platform will act as a payment gateway for different CBDCs and stablecoins.  The new platform that VISA unveiled works on the […]