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Coronavirus patients at Tokyo hotels get greetings from robot

Coronavirus patients at Tokyo hotels get greetings from robot

-- 2020-05-01 17:04:59

Coronavirus patients with light symptoms arriving to stay at several Tokyo hotels are likely to get a pleasant surprise - a robot greeter in the lobby. Japan is now using hotels to house patients who...

Clash of tech titans over coronavirus lockdowns

Clash of tech titans over coronavirus lockdowns

REUTERS 2020-04-30 11:01:56

Silicon Valley billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg offered dueling views on lockdown measures designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus on Wednesday, with Facebook’s Zuckerberg endor...

Google doodle inspires people to stay home

Google doodle inspires people to stay home

-- 2020-04-24 18:03:50

Google on Friday urged people to stay home for saving lives by a special doodle on its regular home page. The animated doodle shows that every single letter of ‘Google’ is busy with indoo...

Facebook launches third-party fact-checking programme in Bangladesh

Facebook launches third-party fact-checking programme in Bangladesh

-- 2020-04-19 13:45:13

Facebook authorities on Sunday launched a third-party fact-checking programme in Bangladesh to reduce the spread of misinformation and improve the quality of the news people find online. Facebook wil...

Amazon using thermal cameras for temperature check

Amazon using thermal cameras for temperature check

Reuters 2020-04-19 12:30:08

Amazon has started to use thermal cameras at its warehouses to speed up screening for feverish workers who could be infected with the coronavirus, employees told Reuters news agency. The cameras in...

Apple tracks changes in travel behaviour during coronavirus pandemic

Apple tracks changes in travel behaviour during coronavirus pandemic

-- 2020-04-15 11:26:32

Apple has launched a tool that reveals changes in the travel behaviour of people who use its Maps app. The Mobility Trends Report produces three daily percentage figures, showing how many fewer peopl...

Singapore teachers allowed to use Zoom again

Singapore teachers allowed to use Zoom again

-- 2020-04-14 16:32:29

Singapore has lifted its suspension of the video conferencing app Zoom for teachers, reports BBC. The ban came into effect last week after at least one lesson was hijacked by outsiders. One mother s...

Huawei urges UK not to make 5G U-turn after pandemic

Huawei urges UK not to make 5G U-turn after pandemic

-- 2020-04-13 13:21:43

Chinese telecoms company Huawei has said that disrupting its involvement in the rollout of 5G would do Britain "a disservice". In January, the UK government approved a limited role for Huawei in buil...

Coronavirus: Indian researchers develop antimicrobial face-shield, hands-free object

Coronavirus: Indian researchers develop antimicrobial face-shield, hands-free object

Xinhua 2020-04-11 17:05:42

The "National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)", situated in India's north-eastern state of Assam, has come out with two innovative products to help the country fight COVID-1...

ISPAB urges customers to pay monthly bills amid COVID-19 shutdown

ISPAB urges customers to pay monthly bills amid COVID-19 shutdown

FE Online Report 2020-04-11 14:45:54

Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) urged its customers to pay monthly bills in time amid the coronavirus shutdown. The internet service providers (ISPs) are providing intern...

Apple, Google to create contact tracing technology to fight coronavirus spread

Apple, Google to create contact tracing technology to fight coronavirus spread

-- 2020-04-11 10:29:27

Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday that they will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing users to opt into...

France rules Google to pay news firms for content

France rules Google to pay news firms for content

-- 2020-04-09 17:20:32

France’s competition authority ruled on Thursday that Google must pay French publishing companies and news agencies for re-using their content, reports Reuters. The US tech firm said it would c...

Twitter boss pledges $1b for coronavirus relief

Twitter boss pledges $1b for coronavirus relief

-- 2020-04-08 11:30:08

Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and payment app Square, has said he will donate $1 billion (£810m) towards efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. According to Mr Dorsey, the donation r...

Facebook launches new chat app for couples

Facebook launches new chat app for couples

-- 2020-04-08 10:39:57

Facebook Inc on Tuesday launched a new messaging app for couples called “Tuned” that allows them to chat, share photos and music as well as have a timeline of shared memories. The app i...

5G unmanned delivery car put into use in Beijing

5G unmanned delivery car put into use in Beijing

-- 2020-04-06 21:20:29

A 5G unmanned delivery car delivered goods at the Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, capital of China on Monday (April 06).  A 5G unmanned delivery car was put into use at the Beijing I...

5G coronavirus conspiracy theory is dangerous fake nonsense, UK says

5G coronavirus conspiracy theory is dangerous fake nonsense, UK says

-- 2020-04-05 12:27:15

A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely false, Britain said on Saturday after masts in several pa...

AI tools developed to predict COVID-19 case severity

AI tools developed to predict COVID-19 case severity

Global Times 2020-04-01 21:16:16

An artificial intelligence (AI) model which can predict whether a COVID-19 patient will experience a severe illness has been jointly developed by researchers from China and the US. The research was ba...

WHO, Viber team up to fight COVID-19 misinformation

WHO, Viber team up to fight COVID-19 misinformation

FE Online Desk 2020-04-01 14:21:31

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Rakuten Viber are collaborating to fight the misinformation spreading around the topic of COVID-19 with an interactive multi-language chatbot that will be avail...

Apple buys weather app Dark Sky

Apple buys weather app Dark Sky

-- 2020-04-01 11:27:42

Apple has purchased the weather predicting app Dark Sky and plans to shut down the Android and Wear OS versions. Dark Sky is known for its hyper-local weather predictions and ability to forecast minu...

Pangolins found to carry viruses related to COVID-19

Pangolins found to carry viruses related to COVID-19

-- 2020-03-29 20:13:51

Smuggled pangolins have been found to carry viruses closely related to the one sweeping the world. Scientists say the sale of the animals in wildlife markets should be strictly prohibited to minimise...

Google-parent Alphabet to donate $800m in response to coronavirus crisis

Google-parent Alphabet to donate $800m in response to coronavirus crisis

-- 2020-03-28 12:30:35

Alphabet Inc will donate more than $800 million in funds towards producing medical supplies used to fight COVID-19, and in ad credits to government and health organisations and businesses, Chief Execu...

Increased plant species composition creates more soil carbon, nitrogen: Research

Increased plant species composition creates more soil carbon, nitrogen: Research

Xinhua 2020-03-26 17:56:24

Chinese researchers have disclosed that soil water content is improved when the plant species community composition is increased. Soil water and nutrient resources are fundamental for the healthy dev...

YouTube, Netflix to reduce video quality in Europe

YouTube, Netflix to reduce video quality in Europe

-- 2020-03-20 17:33:44

YouTube and Netflix will reduce video quality on their services in Europe to avert internet gridlock as thousands of Europeans, constrained by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to working from home. T...

Coronavirus deals blow to NASA's 2024 return-to-moon plan

Coronavirus deals blow to NASA's 2024 return-to-moon plan

-- 2020-03-20 17:16:18

The coronavirus has dealt a blow to NASA’s plan to return Americans to the moon by 2024, as the space agency chief has ordered the temporary closure of two rocket production facilities after an...

Social media giants warn of AI moderation errors as virus empties offices

Social media giants warn of AI moderation errors as virus empties offices

-- 2020-03-17 11:27:29

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc warned on Monday that more videos and other content could be erroneously removed for policy violations, as the companies empty offices and re...

Telenor first mobile operator to launch commercial 5G network in Norway

Telenor first mobile operator to launch commercial 5G network in Norway

FE Online Desk 2020-03-14 13:38:07

Telenor’s commercial 5G network opens today in nine different cities and villages across Norway, making Telenor the first mobile operator in the country to offer 5G to customers. “Telen...

Microsoft takes down millions of zombie bots

Microsoft takes down millions of zombie bots

-- 2020-03-11 12:30:23

Microsoft has said it was part of a team that dismantled an international network of zombie bots. The network call Necurs infected over nine million computers and one of the world's largest botnets....

Facebook closes London offices until Monday due to coronavirus

Facebook closes London offices until Monday due to coronavirus

Reuters 2020-03-07 11:53:57

Facebook said on Friday it is closing its London offices until Monday after a visiting employee from Singapore was diagnosed with coronavirus. “An employee based in our Singapore office who has...

Twitter testing disappearing ‘fleets’ in Brazil

Twitter testing disappearing ‘fleets’ in Brazil

-- 2020-03-05 12:06:13

Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it was testing in Brazil a new type of tweet that disappears after 24 hours, similar to the stories feature popular on Snapchat and Facebook’s photo-sharing app Ins...

Chinese firm accuses CIA of 11-year-long hacking campaign

Chinese firm accuses CIA of 11-year-long hacking campaign

-- 2020-03-04 12:24:42

Chinese antivirus firm Qihoo 360 said CIA hackers have spent more than a decade breaking into the Chinese airline industry and other targets, a blunt allegation of American espionage from a Beijing-ba...