Miami's mayor looks to woo Chinese bitcoin miners with low energy prices and clean nuclear power

Mayor Francis Suarez says Miami’s doors are open to bitcoin miners in China who are currently scrambling to find a new home.

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About one-quarter of U.S. TV time is spent watching streaming services, says Nielsen

Network and cable TV still hold strong, accounting for 64% of time spent on televisions, according to data from Nielsen.

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The guy who founded Facebook’s VR company is now building ‘invincible technomancers’ for U.S. troops and just raised $450 million

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey announced Thursday that his new company raised an additional $450 million in funding to troops into "invincible technomancers."

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Travel app offers skittish vacationers 60-day freeze on hotel rates

Hopper rolled out its "Price Freeze for Hotels" feature. The app now lets users lock in the best rate at a specific hotel for up to 60 days.

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ByteDance founder tells staff he's shifting away from his daily work as CEO

In May, Zhang unexpectedly announced that he will step down as CEO of the TikTok owner amid Chinese' regulators' tightened scrutiny of the country's biggest technology firms.

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Most new-age Indian cos use React for web development

HTML, CSS and JavaScript have long been core to web development and user interfaces. HTML is what is known as a markup language, and helps to lay out the skeleton of the web page – like, here’s the header, here the text, here a sidebar. CSS is what is known as a style sheet language, and helps to add style – such as, fonts, colours, spacing – to the web elements. And JavaScript is a programming language that enables interactions between webpages and the user, like the search bar or when you fill a form and submit it.

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Qualcomm’s Durga Malladi has over 500 patents

Malladi did BS from IIT Madras, and then did a PhD from the University of California in adaptive signal processing. He joined Qualcomm immediately after. Over the past 24 years, he has headed many departments. He is now on the business side, but technology, he says, remains his first love.

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NetApp's flagship data management software is built in India

Data management major NetApp, like many other tech companies, envisions a world where customers focus on what they do best and leave the computer business to tech geeks. To bring this dream alive, one of its major initiatives has been the data management software called ONTAP, which is practically NetApp’s operating system. It’s very popular with NetApp's customers globally as it helps them seamlessly switch between different cloud providers. The latest version of it, ONTAP 9, has been developed principally by the company’s R&D team in Bengaluru.

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Disney+ Original Series Move From Fridays to Wednesdays

The success of Loki episode 1 and the crowding on Fridays has prompted Disney+ to move all original series — be it The Mandalorian season 3 or Ms. Marvel — from Fridays to Wednesdays. Disney+ original movies like Luca and Black Widow will stay on Fridays.

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Battlegrounds Mobile India Beta Released for Download, but Only for Limited Number of Testers

Battlegrounds Mobile India is finally available to play, sort of. The game was available in open beta but only to a limited number of beta testers, though the official Facebook page that has been updated to show open beta access does not mention anything about the limited access.

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Tim Cook says proposed EU tech rules threaten security of Apple iPhones

Apple boss Tim Cook took aim at proposed European rules aimed at curbing the power of U.S. tech giants, saying they could pose security and privacy risks to iPhones

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Google may face shareholder lawsuit claiming it hid security risks

A US appeals court revived a lawsuit in which shareholders of Google parent Alphabet Inc accused Google of misleading them by concealing security vulnerabilities, including in its Google+ social network. Google later admitted that the data had been exposed, and drew criticism from Congress for concealing security shortfalls.

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Alphabet's Waymo raises $2.5 billion in funding round

Waymo, which was formed in 2009 as a project within Alphabet's Google unit, is widely considered the leader in developing self-driving technology

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Government slams Twitter for not complying with new IT rules

India's technology minister said that Twitter Inc had deliberately defied and failed to comply with the country's new IT rules, which became effective in late May.

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Clubhouse expands Creator First programme to India

Clubhouse said it is expanding Clubhouse Creator First programme to India as the audio-only social media app looks to provide creators on the platform tools and resources to help take their ideas and creativity to a larger audience.

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Security flaw found in 2G mobile data encryption standard

Cybersecurity researchers in Europe say they have discovered a flaw in an encryption algorithm used by cellphones that may have allowed attackers to eavesdrop on some data traffic for more than two decades.

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