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Cadillac unveils the Lyriq, its first all-electric vehicle

Luxury automaker Cadillac on Thursday unveiled its first all-electric vehicle, hoping to gain an edge in the segment currently dominated by Tesla. The Lyriq won't be produced until 2022 but Cadillac, General Motors' luxury brand, has promised that most of its models will be electric by 2030.
7 August 2020, 15:27 PM

Facebook employees to work from home until July 2021; get $1,000 for home offices

Facebook Inc will allow employees to work from home until July 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak and will give them $1,000 for home office needs, a spokeswoman for the social media giant said on Thursday.
7 August 2020, 01:27 AM

Tired of Zoom parties? Hang out in the virtual world with these online games

Zoom, Google Meet and other video conferencing platforms have become the hottest applications of 2020. But they have also transformed our social hangouts to formal meetings. While that was indeed the main purpose of such apps, it's not always fun to have hour-long conversations with your friends while just staring at the faces on the screen. Enter virtual worlds.
6 August 2020, 21:05 PM

Five video game escape routes for the bored petrolhead

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6 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Dinosaurs got cancer too, say scientists

Dinosaurs loom in the imagination as forces of nature, but a new study that identifies the first known case of cancer in the creatures shows they suffered from the debilitating disease too. A badly malformed Centrosaurus leg bone unearthed in the Alberta, Canada badlands in 1989 had originally been thought by palaeontologists to be a healed fracture
6 August 2020, 09:21 AM

Germany charges Audi ex-board members over 'dieselgate'

German prosecutors said Thursday they have filed fraud charges against three former board members at Audi and a retired senior employee from the automobile company over the "dieselgate" scam.
6 August 2020, 09:15 AM

Instagram launches "Reels" to rival TikTok

"Reels" lets users record videos of up to 15 seconds and provides tools for editing, audio and effects, according to the Facebook-owned company. "Reels invites you to create fun videos to share with your friends or anyone on Instagram," the social media platform, based in California, said in a blog post.
5 August 2020, 17:10 PM

Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z Fold2

Samsung on Wednesday unveiled an upgraded version of its folding smartphone along with other devices aiming to jump-start sales in a market hit hard by the global pandemic. The Galaxy Z Fold2 was one of several new devices announced at a live-streamed event by the South Korean electronics giant, which recently lost the top position in the smartphone market to China-based Huawei.
5 August 2020, 16:46 PM

Facebook launches TikTok-like product inside Instagram

Facebook rolled out its own version of social media rival TikTok in the United States and more than 50 other countries on Wednesday, embedding a new short-form video service called Reels as a feature within its popular Instagram app.
5 August 2020, 13:46 PM

Ford announces new CEO as it eyes bigger electric push

Ford announced Tuesday that Jim Hackett would resign as chief executive and be replaced by longtime auto executive Jim Farley as the car giant pushes further into digital and electric investment.
4 August 2020, 16:19 PM

Google unveils cheaper Pixel smartphone, teases 5G

Google on Monday unveiled a new. more affordable Pixel smartphone and said it would launch models tailored for super-fast 5G networks later this year. The Pixel 4a boasts core features popular that made its top-of-the-line predecessor popular, like a sophisticated camera system.
4 August 2020, 16:10 PM

Facebook challenges YouTube with licensed music videos

Facebook on Friday added licensed music videos to the social network in the US, challenging YouTube for the attention of online audiences. Facebook said users will be able to "come together" around official music videos, with the promise of premier content from J. Balvin, Karol G, Sebastian Yatra, and other artists.
4 August 2020, 15:25 PM

A milestone for privatisation of space: SpaceX brings astronauts home safely

America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The mission, carried out jointly by NASA and the private company SpaceX, demonstrated that the United States has the capacity once more to send its astronauts to space and bring them back.
3 August 2020, 15:34 PM

Virgin, Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial plane that flies at three times the speed of sound

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic on Monday announced a partnership with engine-maker Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial aeroplane that flies at three times the speed of sound. The aircraft would travel at Mach 3 -- rather than the Mach 2 speed of Concorde, the pioneering jet that operated from 1976 to 2003.
3 August 2020, 15:11 PM

Acquiring TikTok is a gamble Microsoft should take

Microsoft Corp's potential acquisition of short-video app TikTok carries myriad risks, thrusting it into the politically fraught social media business and Sino-U.S. conflict amid increased scrutiny of big-tech companies.
3 August 2020, 15:03 PM

Big Tech hearing takeaway: CEOs couldn't strongly deny foul-play

At Wednesday's hotly-anticipated congressional hearing on Big Tech CEOs, much of what they said was predictable: We're not that big; competition is fierce; consumers love us. What they didn't say might be more interesting. Given the opportunity to dispute that they used their enormous power to outmanoeuvre smaller challengers, the tech titans repeatedly demurred.
30 July 2020, 18:32 PM

Pulse Oximeter: Everything you need to know before getting one

Silent hypoxia is one of the symptoms in which Covid-19 patients have alarmingly low blood oxygen saturation levels, yet they do not show any other symptoms of Covid-19 or breathlessness to identify the hidden danger.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

2020 Chengdu Auto Show highlights

Made by Chery to “show the potential for personalizing cars,” this Arrizo GX is quite something to look at. The basic econobox sedan has been extensively modified, with redesigned bumpers,
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Two new realme smartphones and a watch hit market

Chinese technology brand realme has recently launched two new smartphones and a watch for the Bangladesh market.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off for the red planet Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.
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