China has launched nationwide online recruitment initiatives as it grapples with unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Half of UK adults exposed to fake coronavirus news online
Nearly half of UK adults have been exposed to false or misleading information about coronavirus online in the last week, a UK media regulator has said.
Read More »British news outlets 'could fail due to coronavirus ad-blocking'
Firms urged to abandon blocklisting as online stories generate record traffic but little revenue
Read More »Chinese Emergency Pandemic Mask Factory Visit
Join me as I tour one of the many new mask factories that have been set up to supply the global mask demand during the covid-19 crisis
Read More »Taiwan joins Canada in banning Zoom for government video conferencing
Zoom's daily users ballooned to more than 200 million in March
Read More »How China’s army of food delivery drivers helped keep country going during outbreak
Buying and paying for meals and supplies online was already second nature for many Chinese before the Covid-19 lockdown. The supply and delivery networks that were already in place were able to work with the authorities in cities like Wuhan
Read More »Hackers target Chinese government agencies, diplomatic missions and WHO amid pandemic
More than 200 VPN servers have been compromised in a massive campaign by hackers, according to a report by leading Chinese internet provider Qihoo 360. The report attributed the attacks to advanced hacker group DarkHotel
Read More »Twitter chief to donate quarter of his fortune to coronavirus fight
American Jack Dorsey putting $1bn into funding ‘global Covid-19 relief’
Read More »WhatsApp Is Imposing Stricter Limits On Forwarding Messages To Slow Down Coronavirus Misinformation
Once a message has been forwarded more than five times in total, it can now only be forwarded to one chat at a time.
Read More »5G Conspiracy Theorists Are Using Fears About The Coronavirus To Make Money
For $350, they’ll sell you a USB stick they claim protects you from harmful 5G radiation and prevents infection from the coronavirus. (It doesn't.)
Read More »How is coronavirus benefitting technology companies?
We are no longer physically shopping or eating in restaurants. And a flight to one of the world's favourite destinations, is now only a dream.
Read More »5G Towers Set On Fire Across UK Amid Coronavirus Fears
After the coronavirus outbreak people have linked the virus to 5G towers & people have taken it upon themselves to set fire to 5G towers across the UK.
Read More »New York City bans Zoom in schools citing security concerns
As schools lie empty, students still have to learn. But officials in New York City say schools are not permitted to use Zoom for remote teaching, citing security concerns with the video conferencing service.
Read More »Virus has no nationality
New Viruses are created every day in every country, and can be spread in one day, to any other country by air, water, birds and people.
Read More »How did Huawei fall foul of the US government and find itself at the epicentre of a new tech war?
This is the first in an eight-part series looking at how Huawei has found itself at the epicentre of the US-China tech war. Four years after Huawei set up shop in the US, a RAND report tied Chinese telecommunications companies like Huawe...
Read More »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 »How Zoom Rose To The Top During Social Distancing
Zoom has gained an incredible amount of popularity, but that popularity comes at a cost. The company is under intense scrutiny now that hundreds of millions of people are using the platform. But Zoom is in the game for the long haul, if ...
Read More »How the UK's newest hospital was built in nine days
How London's ExCel centre was transformed into a hospital to treat coronavirus patients.
Read More »‘The worst kind of fake news’: UK government blasts 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories linking 5G mobile telecommunications masts with the spread of the Covid-19 illness have been blasted as “dangerous nonsense” and “the worst kind of fake news” by UK government officials.
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
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