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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 …

Following the news that the phones of government critics had been hacked using the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware, a Thai minister has revealed that the Government makes use of surveillance software in order to follow individuals in cases involving either national security or drugs. Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, the Minister of Digital Economy and Society, stated late on Tuesday in parliament that he …

SINGAPORE: Energy connectivity in Southeast Asia could benefit from a feasibility study conducted by Singapore and the United States. Amidst the US-Southeast Asia Clean Energy Roundtable in Singapore on Thursday, Tan See Leng, Singapore’s Second Minister of Trade and Industry, and US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met (Jul 14). Friday, they issued a joint ministerial statement reiterating their commitment to …

US: The first photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope were made public by NASA on Tuesday. The images demonstrated the telescope’s enormous potential for uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos. The following are some of the things we’ve learned thus far. Advanced scientific devices, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, might occasionally fail to perform as expected. The Hubble …

SOUTH KOREA: Ioniq 6, Hyundai’s first electric sedan, was unveiled on Thursday, July 14th, and the South Korean automaker hopes it will help them gain market share in the electric vehicle market, which is now dominated by Tesla Inc. More than 31 electric vehicles, including Hyundai Motor, its sister business Kia Corp, and the premium brand Genesis, will be introduced …

SINGAPORE: Razer is suing a vendor for a cybersecurity breach that resulted in Razer’s customers’ and sales’ sensitive information being released to the public. More than 100,000 Razer customers may have been affected by a data leak that occurred over the course of three months in June through September 2020, a security researcher reported. French giant Capgemini is being sued …

US: Ground-testing of a SpaceX Starship booster rocket went awry on Monday in Texas, potentially delaying Elon Musk’s goal of sending the spacecraft into orbit later this year. “Yeah, that’s a little harsh. The team is taking stock of the situation,” As witnessed on NASA Spaceflight’s broadcast of the early evening explosion of the Super Heavy Booster 7 prototype, Musk …