Facebook has renamed its blockchain division, called Calibra, to distance it from the Libra digital currency that Facebook created. The blockchain team is building a digital wallet for Facebook's apps, which will eventually hold the Libra digital currency, but Facebook won't control the coin.

The arcs of their careers and personal lives have for years run on parallel tracks, like twin strands of DNA, winding from the military to test pilot school to the same NASA astronaut class, where both met their wives.

Twitter and Facebook's WhatsApp are in the firing line as Europe's leading privacy watchdog for U.S. tech giants edges closer to delivering its first major sanctions under the region's tough data-protection rules.

The upcoming launch of NASA astronauts will be a historic mission - the first launch of humans to orbit from United States soil since the space shuttle retired almost a decade ago.

ByteDance Ltd.'s valuation has risen at least a third to more than $100 billion in recent private share transactions, people familiar with the matter said, reflecting expectations the owner of video phenom TikTok will keep pulling in advertisers despite the covid-19 pandemic.