Under Armour Inc announced that about 150 Million accounts of it’s fitness tracking app MyFitnessPal was hacked earlier this year. Data stolen include username, passwords, email addresses. Payment details and Social security data were not compromised. Under Armour has taken necessary steps to inform its users via email and in-app notifications about the hack. Stocks […]
Month: April 2018
Three people were shot at Youtube’s Headquarters in California. The shooter, a women approached the dining courtyard and opened fire, critically injuring one, before killing herself. Investigation is underway to ascertain the identity of the shooter and the motivation behind the shooting. No known connection to terrorism, according to Reuters, quoting a US government security […]
Google announced on Monday that it would block all cryptomining chrome extensions from the web store, submitted for approval. All existing cryptomining extensions will be blocked in July. Google has taken a stand, as there was an explosion of cryptojacking in the last months, where computers of unaware users were targeted to mine crypto currencies. […]
Former wife of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela passed away yesterday at a hospital in Johannesburg. She was 81 and was known as South Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’. Her family said, “She died after a long illness, for which she had been in and out of hospital since the start of the year. She succumbed peacefully in the […]
Trade was between China and the US escalated as China increased the tariffs on 128 US products by 25 percent. The new tariffs, that come in to effect on Monday, are a response to the duties imposed on Aluminium and Steel imports by the US. Stock markets across the world reacted negatively for the last […]
As money laundering has become a major concern around cryptocurrency usage around the world, Thailand’s Cabinet approved a proposal to tax crypto trades. It is expected that a 7 percent Value added Tac (VAT) will be charged for all trades and a 15 percent tax on the capital gains, according to Nikkei Asian Review.
The Family of Stephen Hawking are open to offers from museums, in hope that the wheel chair he was using and the voice systems could be preserved for his memory. The Sweden made wheel chair can travel 20 miles at 8mph on a single charge, fitted with a computer from Lenevo that uses IR […]
Huawei has just secured a Patent for a foldable phone that transforms into a tablet in its fully unfolded form. According to Lets GO Digital blog, the mobile phone has a special hinge to hold two displays that can open and close like a normal book, without any gap between the displays. Huawei applied for […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor and Actor, was recovering after an emergency surgery during a procedure to replace a pulmonic valve in his heart. according to his spokesman, Ketchell. Arnold was at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles to replace the valve that was installed in 1997 for a congenital heart defect. Ketchell tweeted that Arnold […]
David Warner’s wife, Candice said on Monday that she blames herself for her husband’s part in the ball tampering scandal. “I feel like it’s all my fault and it’s killing me — it’s absolutely killing me,” quoted, Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph. She clarified later that she was not making excuses for David’s part in the scandal, but […]