On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
09 Mar 2018
Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information on Twitter, says new research from MIT
John McAfee claims his Twitter account hacked
30 Dec 2017
US Library of Congress to stop collecting each and every tweet
27 Dec 2017
The library is now only interested in tweets with "event-based" merit or tweets related to "themes of ongoing national interest". Tweets about an annoying little brother or what you had for lunch will no longer make the cut
Facebook, Twitter, Google unveil extent of Russian meddling
02 Nov 2017
In their testimony before a Congress committee, the social media companies revealed startling new data showing many more millions of Americans were exposed to the fake news than previously thought
Twitter to double character limit to 280
28 Sep 2017
Twitter working on new feature to flag fake news
01 Jul 2017
Twitter suffers major outage
20 May 2017
Twitter co-founder 'Biz' Stone to rejoin company
17 May 2017
Twitter fights off demand to identify online Trump critic
08 Apr 2017
An attempt by US authorities to identify an anonymous critic of President Donald Trump on Twitter has set off alarm bells among both Democratic and Republican lawmakers and civil liberties advocates who fear a crackdown on dissent
Legion cracks Twitter accounts of Rahul Gandhi, Mallya, others
13 Dec 2016
A new group calling itself Legion says that apart from prominent personalities that include Rahul Gandhi, Vijay Mallya, and some news anchors, it also has access to sansad.nic.in, the email server used by government employees
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
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In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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