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Apple appears to to be acquiring virtual event company NextVR
Apple's augmented reality plans may have received a quiet but important boost.The 9to5Mac team claims that Apple is the midst of acquiring virtual event broadcasting company NextVR in a deal worth about $100 million. While the deal hasn'...
Read More »Forget Zoom? Skype unveils free 'Meet Now' video calls
Skype has rolled out Meet Now video meetings that are free and don't require downloads or signups
Read More »These 'disease hunters' developed a novel technique for tracking pandemics after 9/11, but lost funding right before COVID-19
Nearly two decades ago, when 9/11 spurred governments to invest in fighting bioterrorism, a group of disease experts figured out how to track pandemics using data from emergency rooms with a technique called 'syndromic surveillance.' Now...
Read More »Smart Contact Lens: The Trillion Dollar Cyborg Revolution
Smart glasses may be the hot topic when it comes to the combination of technology and eyewear, but a new startup is focusing on bringing contact lenses into the conversation. Mojo Vision, a California startup, unveiled a smart contact le...
Read More »Coronavirus: Hospital ward staffed entirely by robots opens in China
A temporary coronavirus hospital ward in China is being staffed entirely by robots. Around 200 patients with mild symptoms will be fed and treated by machines, while medical staff issue commands from outside
Read More »Why Elon Musk And Jack Dorsey Have Big Plans For Africa
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square, Inc, raised some eyebrows in Silicon Valley when he announced he was moving to Africa in 2020. Africa is poised to take off as the next big tech market, and both America and China have taken no...
Read More »Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft can thank a black engineer for interchangeable games: how Jerry Lawson changed the face of the video game industry
Lawson oversaw the creation of the Channel F, the first video game console with interchangeable game cartridges. One of the few black engineers in the industry at the time, Lawson established the concept of a console that could play an u...
Read More »How Israel's Turning Soldiers Into Entrepreneurs
Unit 8200 is an elite branch of the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, that specializes in computer security and murkier, more controversial stuff, such as espionage and cyber attacks.
Read More »Republican Donor Buys Major Twitter Stake With Plans To Oust CEO Jack Dorsey
Conservative billionaire and hedge fund manager Paul Singer, and his company Elliott Management Corp., bought a sizable stake of Twitter with alleged plans to oust CEO Jack Dorsey over Twitter’s overt political bias.
Read More »Facebook vs TikTok: How the US is struggling to contain the outbreak of a viral Chinese app
TikTok’s growing popularity has sparked panic among Western companies and government policymakers. While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s concerns about censorship on TikTok may be legitimate, they could also be a tactic to undermine a com...
Read More »India Is Becoming Its Own Silicon Valley
Traditionally, India’s best and brightest tech talent has emigrated to the United States for lucrative job opportunities. But now they’re putting their entrepreneurial spirit and engineering skills to use at home.
Read More »How China has turned to tech like never before to combat the coronavirus
Visits to medical-related mini-programs on Chinese super app WeChat rose 347 per cent over the past 20 days, compared to data recorded in December. The impact of the countrywide lockdown on the economy has the potential to cut China’s gr...
Read More »Uber rival Ola is launching in London next month
Ola is promising drivers 100% of their earnings for the first six weeks.
Read More »‘Bad timing’: industry experts pan expanded fast-track immigration scheme by Hong Kong government to lure tech talent
Lawmaker Charles Mok bemoans city’s battered global image amid protest violence and coronavirus outbreak, while experts say plan could be more beneficial if extended to other industries
Read More »Social Innovation in Driving Thailand 4.0
Technology and digital transformation have always been instrumental in bringing change, resolving social issues and creating a better world. Driving this wave of transformation in Thailand is Hitachi with its Social Innovation Business.
Read More »Fast-track 'global talent visa' to be launched days after Brexit
Boris Johnson’s scheme to attract scientists dismissed by Lib Dems as ‘gimmick’
Read More »China in new tech embarrassment as coding guru suspended for fake claims
Liu Lei faces an investigation after the Mulan programming language he said was entirely built by his lab was found to be partly based on an existing one. It is the latest such case amid a push to develop home-grown technology
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Most people create work for themselves and then think they are entrepreneurs.
Read More »Google launches online coding course to train workers for tech jobs
The news comes as Silicon Valley faces scrutiny over the implications of the tech industry on the American workforce.
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