Month: June 2022

US chipmaker Qualcomm on Wednesday won its fight against a EUR-997-million (roughly Rs. 8,170 crore) fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators four years ago for paying Apple to use only its chips and blocking out rivals such as Intel. The European Commission in its 2018 decision said the anti-competitive practice took place from 2011 to 2016,
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Microsoft has finally released a Windows security fix for the vulnerability that has actively been exploited by hackers. The issue, which was named “Follina” by security researchers, was publicly disclosed last month, though it was initially reported to the Redmond company in April. It enables attackers to hack Windows PCs using a maliciously crafted Microsoft
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The price of Bitcoin fell below $20,000 (roughly Rs. 15 lakh) for the first time since late 2020 on Saturday, in a fresh sign that the selloff in cryptocurrencies is deepening. Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, fell below the psychologically important threshold, dropping as much as 9 percent to less than $19,000 (roughly Rs. 14
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Ștefania Mărăcineanu, a Romanian physicist, has been honoured on her 140th birthday with a Google doodle. Ștefania was born in 1882 in Bucharest, Romania, and went on to become one of the pioneers in the discovery and research of radioactivity. Mărăcineanu’s PhD thesis was on polonium, an element that physicist Marie Curie discovered. During her
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