Mobile tower in Australia vandalized, a possible 5G conspiracy?
A telecommunications tower in Melbourne, Australia caught fire and the police think this could be related to the 5G conspiracy. There is a popular (and false) belief that the spread of COVID-19 has something to do with the fifth-generation wireless telecommunication towers. This 5g conspiracy...
YouTube introduces ‘Video Chapters’ to make navigation easier
Youtube rolls out its new feature called ‘Video Chapters’ that will help viewers navigate better through long-form videos. The new feature will use timestamps that creators can apply to their YouTube videos. Video Chapters will allow viewers to conveniently jump to parts of the video...
What tech companies are doing to control the spread of fake news
The term “fake news” first gained popularity around the 2016 presidential elections, and since then politicians have not stopped talking about it. However, misinformation isn’t just a political issue. False news is also highly financially motivated. Spammers usually communicate using names of established brands to...
NASA & SpaceX give Crew Dragon a ‘GO’ for launch
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket are now ready to fly with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. The spacecraft gets a ‘go’ from both NASA and SpaceX, to take a trip to the International Space Station after officially passing the final...
Amazon announces its second solar farm in Australia
According to Geoscience Australia, the country receives about 58 million PJ (Petajules) of solar radiation every year. This is approximately 10,000 times more than its total energy consumption. To use this as an opportunity to focus on sustainable development goals, e-commerce giant Amazon has decided...
FedEx & Microsoft join forces to transform commerce through FedEx Surround
FedEx and Microsoft have joined hands and entered a new multi-year collaboration on May 18th, 2020. This partnership will help ‘transform commerce’ by combining the global digital and logistics network of FedEx and intelligent cloud by Microsoft. The first service from the companies, FedEx Surround,...
Tech stocks inaugurate in the lower leading of another active profits week
The expectation that confused many in April may be shifting in May, as stocks collapsed during Friday’s trading sitting and are repeatedly dropping this day. The high tech Nasdaq Composite is off 0.55% this day, putting it 13% off its historic highs set this year,...
Google Meet notes up in Gmail inboxes, a few years too slow
Google Meet — the video call service already known as Hangouts Meet, which itself was a branch from Hangouts, not to be mixed with Google Chat, Duo, Allo or any of the company’s other communications service — is finally obtaining its appearance on Gmail accounts,...
SoundCloud’s Original Live Programming on Twitch: A New Chapter
Music streaming service Soundcloud is gaining on consumer interest for live entertainment among the COVID-19 quarantine with the launch of its slate of freshly produced live programming. The firm today declared its proposals for a new Twitch channel where it will open live chat series...
Don’t wait to view Windows 10X dual-screen devices this year
Among Windows 10X, Microsoft launched the latest version of its flagship operating system last October that was specially created for dual-screen devices. The initial plan was to start the primary set of Windows 10X dual-screen devices before the 2020 vacations, plus in February of this...
