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A scholar’s daring bid to become CEO of Twitter, requests Elon Musk’s support! Read more tech news Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: A Microsoft employee unintentionally announced that the Notepad app in Windows 11 will be receiving tabs in the fresh version of Notepad. Fast-Track Insights: Winter storm in the US causes a decline in bitcoin mining hash rate. For US bitcoin miners, the recent winter storm has created a unique set of challenges. Shiva…

Elon Musk fires a Twitter engineer for questioning his decisions! Read more tech news below Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: Amazon plans to roughly cut down almost 10,000 white-collar employees from various departments, and from offices across the world. Fast-Track Insights: Binance CEO advises crypto enthusiasts, especially beginners to stay away from the market currently as digital assets face intense volatility and unpredictability after FTX’s fall.…

IANS San Francisco, November 13 Indian-origin Nishad Singh, is being scrutinised for financial practices that caused the collapse of FTX, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. He lived with the FTX founder along with 9 others. Singh was in the inner circle of FTX’s 30-year-old founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. “Gary Wang (Chief Technology Officer), Nishad and Sam control the code, the exchange’s matching engine, and funds,” said a person familiar with the matter.…

Elon Musk (L) and Sriram Krishnan (R)Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin technology executive, is "helping out" Twitter's new owner Elon Musk as he revamps the social media giant following its acquisition by the billionaire entrepreneur. Krishnan is a general partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). "Now that the word is out: I'm helping out @elonmusk with Twitter temporarily with some other great people. I (and a16z) believe this is a hugely important company and can have a great impact…

Tribune News Service New Delhi, October 28 Billionaire Elon Musk finally completed his acquisition of Twitter for a whopping $44 billion and started off as the social media giant’s owner by firing its top executives, including Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal and policy chief Vijaya Gadde. Musk walked into the Twitter headquarters with a grin, carrying a porcelain sink. He later tweeted: “Let that sink in”. He changed his Twitter…

First is always special. Cambridgeshire-born Indian-origin actor Himesh Patel who made it to the shortlist of nominees for the Emmy Awards for the first time ever was all smiles before heading to the ceremony on Tuesday. For his Emmys look, Patel sported a patterned suit jacket with a black shirt and black pants. Also Read: Entries funded by Russian government barred at Emmys 2022 Patel is nominated in the Best Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie category for his performance in HBO`s Station Eleven. He plays the role of…

India-origin executives head several of the big names in the technology world. The names include software, hardware, IT services and internet giants. While Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have been the poster boys of the technology world for almost a decade now, there are many other executives of Indian origin who hold key positions at some of the biggest tech giants in the world. Here we look at 18 tech executives of Indian origin who head some of the biggest technology companies in the world.…

Indian-origin physician Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel at the US Air Force, has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced.Menon, 45, was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants.He was SpaceX's first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company's first humans to space during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organisation to support the human system during future missions.In a…

A team of researchers led by an Indian-origin engineer in the UK has created an electronic skin capable of feeling "pain" and according to them it could help create a new generation of smart robots with human-like sensitivity. Professor Ravinder Dahiya, from the University of Glasgow's James Watt School of Engineering, said the discovery marks a real step forward in work towards creating large-scale neuromorphic printed e-skin capable of responding appropriately to stimuli.His team at the university developed the…