Technology

Live video captured the launch of South Korea’s first-ever lunar orbiter, which took place from the United States on Thursday (August 4). The mission will last for one year and will consist of observing the Moon. The cargo will include a novel disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Elon Musk’s aerospace business SpaceX transported the Danuri spacecraft, whose name …

The market has been thrown into a tailspin as a result of Elon Musk’s recent highly publicized back and forth with Twitter. Despite Twitter’s initial resistance to the business magnate, the two parties ultimately came to an agreement in April that valued US$44 billion. The deal resulted in a premium over the then-current share price of Twitter equal to 38%. …

An official of higher rank stated on Sunday, July 31st, that Indonesia has temporarily unblocked access to the online payment business PayPal in order to permit consumers to retrieve their money. This comes after the country’s suspension of some online services and games resulted in a public outcry. The Indonesian communications ministry disabled PayPal, the website for the search engine …

On Saturday, July 30, a Chinese rocket crashed down to Earth over the Indian Ocean, but NASA stated that Beijing had not supplied the “specific trajectory information” that was required to determine where possible debris would fall. The United States Space Command reported that the Long March 5B rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean at approximately 12:45 p.m. …

According to a story that was published in the Platformer tech newsletter on Thursday, Instagram is going to stop developing some features that users have protested against and argued make the social network too similar to TikTok on July 28th. This week, some of the most vocal users who posted messages on social media asked the corporation behind Instagram to …

Heavy rain disrupted supplies of parts, which raised the possibility that Toyota Motor Corp. could fall short of its global target for the month of July. As a result, Toyota Motor Corp. announced on Wednesday that it would reduce domestic production by approximately 4,000 vehicles during the month of July. According to a statement released by Toyota, the company is …

T-Mobile has reached a settlement with various class-action lawsuits arising from a data breach that was publicized the previous year and affected tens of millions of customers. The company has agreed to pay $350 million to settle the lawsuits. T-Mobile has also committed, as part of the proposed settlement that was disclosed on Friday, to spend an additional $150 million …

Sales of the first digital token in the Central African Republic got off to a poor start, with only slightly more than 5% of the goal purchased in the hours following its launch. This was mostly due to concerns about the project’s openness and a general downturn in the industry. It was in April that the Central African Republic (CAR), …

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has denied having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, who is married to Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google. The comments made by Mr. Musk came after it was reported in the Wall Street Journal that his friendship with Mr. Brin had come to an end as a result of the alleged affair. …

After an outage that lasted for several hours and caused the chat application to become inaccessible for tens of thousands of clients around the world, Microsoft announced on Thursday, July 21st, that MS Teams was back online for the majority of its users. The company blamed the problem on a recent software update, which “included a failed connection to an …