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NASA International Space Apps Challenge NASA, CSA, CNES , and JAXA invite you to “Take Action” from home on October 2-4, as part the celebration of our 9th annual hackathon. For those in Benin City, Nigeria you are also invited to this annual celebration. Space Apps is an international hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists, and others in cities around the world,where teams engage with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s free and open data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space. In advent to the Covid-19 pandemic, this years hackathon would be hosted virtually. We invite you today to be a hero in the midst of the storm and be courageous to hack hack hack till a solution is birthed from October 2nd - 4th, 2020. Space Apps gives y...

The official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West also requested donations in the cryptocurrency. "Everyone is asking me to give back," a tweet from Mr Gates' account said. "You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000." The US Senate Commerce committee has demanded Twitter brief it about the incident next week. Twitter said it was a "co-ordinated" attack targeting its employees "with access to internal systems and tools". "We know they [ the hackers ] used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf," the company said in a series of tweets. It added that "significant steps" had been taken to limit access to such internal systems and tools while the company's investigation was ongoing. The firm has also blocked users from being able to tweet Bitcoin wallet addresses for the time being. Meanwhile, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey twee...