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Apple Shuts Dark Sky Android App July 1 2020

Dark Sky's Android users have a deadline. July 1, 2020. That is the day the app stops working. No more minute-by-minute rain alerts. No more down-to-the-block f

SoftBank Launches 5G Network in Japan

TOKYO — A two-hour movie in seconds. That is the promise SoftBank Corp. is selling with its new 5G service, launched April 1. The Tokyo-based tech giant is now

Philippines Extends BPO Work-From-Home Deadline One Week

When the Philippine government locked down Luzon on March 16, it threw a wrench into an industry that employs 1.1 million people. Business Process Outsourcing c

Gates Resigns From Microsoft and Berkshire Boards

A Strategic Shift in Focus for the Tech Industry Titan Bill Gates has officially announced his resignation from the boards of directors at Microsoft and…

Arcturus Receives $3M Singapore Grant for Vaccine

San Diego's Arcturus Therapeutics now has a deadline. The first $3 million of Singapore's $10 million grant hit the company's accounts on March 9. That money bu

Singapore Grants $10M for Arcturus Coronavirus Vaccine

Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) announced on 12 March 2020 that it will channel up to USD 10 million to Arcturus Therapeutics, a San Diego-based…

Cathay Pacific Fined $970,000 Over 9.4M Passenger Data Breach

Nine point four million people. That is the human count behind the data breach that has cost Cathay Pacific Airways a fine of nearly one million dollars. The Ho

China Mobile-Game Downloads Surge 80% in Quarantine

Mobile-game downloads across China jumped 80 percent during the first three weeks of February 2020, according to app-analytics firms, after Beijing sealed off cities and…

Facebook Sues oneAudience Over Secret Data Harvesting SDK

Facebook on 27 February 2020 asked a federal court in San Francisco to stop New Jersey marketing company oneAudience from harvesting user data, alleging the…

Moderna Ships Coronavirus Vaccine for Human Testing

On February 26, 2020, a small shipment left a Moderna Inc. facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Inside: vials of a vaccine candidate called mRNA-1273. Destinat

Thailand’s 5G auction raises over 100 billion baht

On February 17, 2020, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) of Thailand concluded its 5G spectrum auctions, raising a total of 100.52 billion baht…

Ola Launches Ride-Hailing Service in London

Ola, an Indian ride-hailing company, launched its services in London on Monday, February 10, 2020, as part of its expansion in the United Kingdom. The…

Acer, Asustek Rank Among Top 10 PC Vendors

On January 26, 2020, Gartner, a global market information advisory firm, released its rankings of the world's top computer manufacturers in terms of shipments, with…

ISRO Unveils Legless Robot Astronaut Vyom Mitra

Why India’s Half-Built Robot Astronaut Is More Than a Stunt ISRO made Vyom Mitra a torso with a face. No legs. At 90 centimeters tall and 45 kilograms, the rob

Toyota Injects $394M Into Joby Aviation Air-Taxi

Toyota Motor Corporation announced on 15 January 2020 that it is injecting an additional US $394 million into Joby Aviation, the Santa Cruz, California-based start-up…

Facebook bans deceptive, modified media

Facebook’s Global Policy Management President Monika Bickert said they have removed modified images and videos that were intended to deceive millions of users. She said...

Facebook Bans Undetectable Deepfake Videos

Facebook's new policy against manipulated media, announced January 8, 2020, didn't spring from nowhere. It landed in the middle of a growing storm over deepfake

A “Prototype City of the Future” will rise in Japan, says...

Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japan-based multinational automotive manufacturer, recently shared the good news of transforming a 175-acre former car factory into a “Prototype City of...

Wyze Data Leak Exposes 2.4 Million Customers

Wyze data leak: A case of speed over security The Wyze data breach that exposed 2.4 million customers was not a sophisticated hack. It was a simple human error

Amazon Fake Car Seat Fails 30-MPH Crash Test

On December 29, 2019, CNN reported that Amazon is selling fake and potentially dangerous children's products, specifically a counterfeit 4-in-1 baby car seat and stroller…

NIST Finds Facial Recognition MisIDs Black Women 35%

Black women being misidentified as men nearly 35 percent of the time by two facial recognition algorithms. That is not a software bug. That is a design failure

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