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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

Amazon to invest $10 bn in space-based internet system

Amazon says it will invest $10 billion for its planned space-based internet delivery system after winning US regulatory approval to deploy more than 3,000 low-orbit satellites.
3 August 2020, 15:24 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

China-backed hackers 'targeted Covid-19 vaccine firm Moderna'

Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc, a U.S.-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, this year in a bid to steal data, according to a U.S. security official tracking Chinese hacking.
1 August 2020, 16:52 PM

Hajj goes virtual for families of lucky pilgrims

In recent years, the hajj has been at the centre of an acceleration in the growth of digital worship, with a slew of religious apps and tablet Korans.
31 July 2020, 19:05 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

“How price, vai?”

Didn’t hear much of that this time. Pre-Eid, amidst the sound of moo and baa and meh, this was a question everyone of the roads would scream out at each other.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Neuralink will stream music directly to the brain, claims Musk

Tech startup Neuralink is working on a brain-computer interface that will allegedly allow wearers to “stream music directly to their brain”.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Instagram bug keeps camera on in iOS 14

iOS 14’s new set of user notifications aggressively report unusual app behaviour. It has unearthed another security flaw.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Halo infinity gameplay: The good, the bad and the rest

After five years of development and weeks of teasers, Microsoft has finally given us a better look at the Halo Infinite campaign.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

The Bossman

The Bossman
30 July 2020, 18:00 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

DCeased: DC Comics’ gory take on a cyber pandemic

Have you ever stopped to think – what if the coronavirus had spread from one human to another via technology? Sounds like a diabolical train of thought, no? Well, as despondent as it sounds, it did not prevent DC Comics from creating their version of a cyber pandemic.
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

Legen-Dairy breakthroughs in bovine technology

The simple act of feeding and caring for a cow harks back to a bygone era at the dawn of the agricultural revolution.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Bezos' snack, room ratings and 'the net': Key online moments from tech hearing

The chief executives of the country's largest tech companies - including Zuckerberg, Amazon Inc's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple Inc's Tim Cook - gave virtual testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel.
30 July 2020, 12:43 PM

NASA launches rover to seek signs of past life on Mars

NASA's next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a $2.4 billion mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth's planetary neighbour.
30 July 2020, 12:32 PM