The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that you wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds to mitigate the spread of germs. In light of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that continues to spread a…
The media is full of advice about how to avoid spreading COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus. Most of it involves keeping your hands clean and not touching your face. But your hands aren’t the only things that touch your face. What…
Google Cloud today announced its plans to open four new data center regions. These regions will be in Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada) and bring Google Cloud’s total footprint to 26 regions. The compa…
Samsung is officially launching its 2020 TV lineup today, with more 8K models than in years past — including the flagship Q950TS series with barely-there bezels. That “infinity screen” got all the attention back at CES, and Samsung says …
One upon a time, if you had more than one Twitter account and wanted to switch from one to the other, you had two choices: you could either go through the boring exercise of logging out of one and logging into the other, or you could use a…
Apple is pulling out of SXSW due to the coronavirus outbreak, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Wednesday. Apple is following in the footsteps of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Studios, and others in not attending the Austin-based conference …
Finland’s Nokia Oyj (NOKIA.HE) has entered into partnership with Intel (INTC.O) to accelerate its so-far sluggish shift to 5G, the company said on Thursday, a day after announcing a similar deal with Marvell Technology (MRVL.O).
Nokia h…
In a time of crisis, it is now probably the single most important source of news for billions of people around the world.
So what is Facebook doing to make sure that it is providing accurate and timely information about the new coronavi…
Twitter is testing a feature that will allow some tweets to disappear after 24 hours, it announced on Wednesday.
The new feature called "fleets" is similar to vanishing posts on Snapchat and Instagram Stories.
The changes prompted th…
The annual Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference will not go ahead as planned, amid growing concerns about coronavirus.
Instead, attendees are being asked to vote on whether to postpone the Vancouver-based event until Ju…
Despite Coronavirus Outbreak, OpenExchange Virtual Conferences Keep Investment Communications Flowing
Facing travel restrictions across Asia and Europe due to Coronavirus concerns, five major February investor conferences avoided outrig…
The South African drone market is certainly on the up-and-up. According to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s ‘South African Drone Market 2019’ report, the global drone market will increase from $14 billion in 2018 to more than $43 billion in 2024 (…
Global Voice Group, a global IT solutons provider for governments and regulatory authorites in emerging countries, organizes a round table dedicated to the means of fostering cybersecurity in Africa, as part of Africa CEO Forum to be held …
Actis acquires majority stake in Rack Centre, announces plans to build a $250 million African data centre platform
Leading investor of private capital into global emerging markets, Actis has acquired a majority stake in Nigeria’s leadin…
REDAVIA, a global market leader of cost-effective, reliable, and clean solar power for businesses, is celebrating 10 years of solar innovation. This milestone anniversary represents a decade of creative engineering and customer satisfactio…
The Company also Launches Global Campaign to Recruit Distributers
PaMu Scroll, of the innovative electronics manufacturer Padmate, took home the 2020 iF Design Award in Hamburg, Germany. Following the win, Padmate announced a new global…
After Facebook canceled its F8 developer conference and Google itself moved its Cloud Next event in April to a digital-only conference, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that Google is canceling its I/O developer conference in Mountain Vi…
A Singaporean candidate is ahead of a Chinese lawyer in a race to head the world patent office as Beijing seeks its fifth U.N. leadership role in a move critics say would give it an unprecedented level of influence over new technologies.
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India's Supreme Court has lifted a ban that barred banks from being involved in cryptocurrency trading.
Financial services firms were banned from trading in virtual currency and cryptocurrency in April 2018 by the Reserve Bank of India …
China's most popular messaging app has been censoring key words about the coronavirus outbreak from as early as 1 January, a report has found.
Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab found that WeChat blocked combinations of keywords a…
Facebook -owned WhatsApp is finally giving users’ eyes a break by rolling out a dark mode setting to the messaging app — years after some other tech giants figured out how to offer a “dimmer pixels” switch.
The messaging giant says the …
Facebook will now let you post 3D photos to your timeline from the Facebook app even if you have a phone with a single camera, the company announced today. In theory, this should make it possible for a lot more phones to take 3D photos —…
Twitter has told its employees to work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
In a blog post, the social media giant said it was mandatory for staff in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea to work remotely.
The company als…
Disinfecting robots, smart helmets, thermal camera-equipped drones and advanced facial recognition software are all being deployed in the fight against Covid-19 at the heart of the outbreak in China.
President Xi Jinping has called on t…
Smart cameras and baby monitors can be watched by criminals over the internet by default, security chiefs warn.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising people to tweak the settings after buying them.
Easy-to-guess defau…
So bitcoin’s a currency, right? Well, yes, it can be used to buy, sell and price goods much like dollars and euros.
A commodity? Come to think of it, it does behave a lot like oil and gold - it can be bought and sold in cash markets or …
In Part 6 of our multiverse series, we discuss the business opportunities and compliance challenges of virtual economies
Fictional portrayals of virtual worlds such as “Ready Player One” and “The Matrix” typically portray the physical and…
Oppo has announced the Reno 3 Pro, the latest entry in the ever-more-convoluted Reno series. It’s a mid-range model that’s altogether separate from the Reno 3 Pro 5G released in China in December; this model is launching in India first.
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The world is bracing for the seemingly inevitable proliferation of SARS-COV-12, also known as COVID-19 and coronavirus, which has already paralyzed cities and isolated millions. In the U.S., especially the nonstop work culture in startups,…
Japanese electronics giant Sharp is to use a TV factory to make surgical masks amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Its parent company Foxconn has already done the same in China to supply its own workers as they make iPhone parts.
Sha…
Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 series of phones will release this coming Friday, March 6th. This leaves you with a whole week to decide whether you want to preorder the S20, S20 Plus, or S20 Ultra.
There’s nothing wrong with waiting for relea…
The World Health Organization launched a TikTok account on Friday as part of its efforts to cut through coronavirus misinformation online. A specialized public health agency of the United Nations, WHO is one of the leading organizations wo…
Samsung has responded to some issues that early reviewers have found with the camera system on the new Galaxy S20 Ultra. The company says it’s working on an update to improve the camera, though it doesn’t acknowledge any specific problem o…
Starting today, Spotify is rolling out a new look to its iPhone app. The changes prioritize universal icons and visual indicators over written words, which Spotify says makes the app a more accessible experience for users all over the worl…
If you haven’t added Instagram to your set of social networking apps, then perhaps you should give it a try. Instagram places the emphasis on visuals — photos, GIFs, videos — but the difference between it and, say, TikTok, is that it doesn…
Apple produced the two top selling phone models in the world last year, the iPhone XR and iPhone 11, according to reports by Counterpoint Research and Omdia. The iPhone 11’s second place position was particularly impressive, given the ph…
After recently tweaking its design to better showcast podcasts, Spotify today announced it’s giving its entire mobile experience a refreshed look-and-feel. Starting initially with the iOS app, both Spotify Free and Premium users will notic…
The Citroën Ami is a new take on urban mobility. It’s electric, cheap and doesn’t require a license. In short, it’s less of a car and more of an electric scooter with two seats, doors and a heater. Jokes aside, the Citroën Ami could be a g…
Teebike is a new French startup that wants to make it easier to switch from a good old sweat-based bike to an electric bike. With Teebike, you don’t have to get rid of your existing bike and buy a new one. You just have to replace the fron…
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would cancel its annual developer conference due to fears over the coronavirus, as growing concerns about the economic impact of the global outbreak drove Wall Street to tumble for a sixth straight day.
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Havn launches premium chauffeur service across London with a fleet of all-electric Jaguar I-PACEs
Each Havn ride tailored in advance with options such as playlist, temperature, and chauffeur interaction
First class hospitality …
LinkedIn is a website that’s effectively a mixture between an interactive resume and a college job fair, but that hasn’t stopped it from aspiring to be a cooler, more social part of the internet. Its latest attempt? Snapchat-style stories,…
Amazon has banned more than one million products which claim to protect against the coronavirus - or even cure it.
The online retailer told Reuters it had also removed "tens of thousands" of overpriced health products from unscrupulous …
The "appropriateness" of Google's sister company's plan for a "digital city" in Toronto has been questioned.
A panel set up to scrutinise Sidewalk Labs's plan has asked it to explain what the benefits would be for citizens in collecting…
A game which challenges players to spread a deadly virus around the world has been banned in China, its makers have said.
Plague Inc. has been pulled from the Chinese app store for including "illegal content", British-based developer Nd…
VMware & Dell Technologies partner to enable focus on faster deployments with lower costs via containerized- and micro-serviced 5G end-to-end solutions
Mavenir has announced integration of its 5G cloud-native telecom network functions (…
India is unlikely to have any substantial coverage of 5G until at least the end of next year, with telecom operators in the country yet to participate in a spectrum auction. But that hasn’t stopped Chinese vendors Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi fro…
One thing you can say for sure about 2020’s smartphone landscape: There’s no shortage of options. Sales have taken a dip in the last few years, causing a number of manufactures to get creative with their offerings. LG’s certainly in that b…
Last November, Twitter rolled out its Hide Replies feature to all users worldwide. The feature, largely designed to lessen the power of online trolls to disrupt conversations, lets users decide which replies to their tweets are placed behi…
For a decade, Apple has solely relied on third-party sellers, stores and marketplaces to sell its products in India. That will begin to change this year.
At the company’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday, chief executive Tim Cook to…
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