U.K.- based Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) announced on Monday its collaboration with Swedish Telecom vendor Ericsson to supply cloud native, container-based dual-mode 5G core technology. This step will pave the way for VMO2 to deliver ultra-fast connectivity to consumers and develop advanced enterprise use cases. According to the agreement, VMO2 will bring its 4G, 5G […]
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South African telecom giant MTN Group announced on Thursday that it expanded its 5G network coverage, within northern provinces of the country in Polokwane and Witbank. The company deployed 5G towers despite uncertainty regarding the allocation of new spectrum. “MTN is making strides with its 5G technology rollout strategy,” said Kagiso Moncho, MTN general manager […]
Facebook launched on Friday its cloud gaming service on Apple devices through a web app, that allows users to play games through a mobile device or web browser without having to download them. The step follows a series of back-and-forth trials with Apple that previously rejected Facebook’s standalone iOS app version of its gaming service. […]
Estonian Telecom Telia Eesti announced last week that it’s 5G network is currently available in 77 locations across 14 main cities within the country. Telia Eesti — one of the Baltic region’s main telecom suppliers and subsidiary of Swedish provider Telia — revealed that it’s planning to invest more in the construction of 5G. By the end of the year, the Estonia-based company plans to expand the new generation mobile network to more than 100 locations, including various county centers. Currently, Telia’s 5G […]
Belgian digital artist called Dries Depoorter launched earlier this month an AI bot called “The Flemish Scrollers” that automatically catches, and tags members of the Federal Parliament glued to their phones during parliamentary proceedings. Using artificial intelligence and facial recognition, the software calculates how long the politician spends on their phone, all while broadcasting the session and results on YouTube. Those figures are automatically […]
U.S. tech giant Microsoft is in the final stages of talks with the Telangana government in India to set up a data center with an investment ranging between $2 billion to $2.25 billion, local media reports. If the discussions come to fruition, this would be one of the major investments of Microsoft outside the U.S. A few months earlier, Telangana Minister for IT and Industries KT Rama Rao […]
A flood of hardcore pornographic content has spread like wildfire on Thursday showing up on news websites after a company called 5 Star Porn HD bought the expired domain for video hosting site Vidme, which went out of business in 2017. This means that any websites with Vidme embeds now have pornographic content being displayed across their pages including prominent news websites such as The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Huffington Post, and other major sites. The websites immediately started deleting the pornography from […]
U.S. based- video game company Activision Blizzard was sued on Tuesday over a culture of constant sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination. The lawsuit filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) against the company was a result of a two-year investigation that revealed top executives were aware and/or involved of unequal pay, promoting men over women, and widespread sexual harassment. The complaint highlights those male employees of the gaming company discuss sexual encounters […]
U.K. operator group Vodafone and Finnish kit vendor Nokia have partnered up to jointly develop an AI solution on Google Cloud to detect and remediate network anomalies before they impact customers. The new machine learning (ML) system was co-developed based on Nokia’s Bell Labs algorithm and the anomaly detection service product that runs on Google Cloud and is already being rolled out across Vodafone’s pan-European network. In a joint statement, the partners explained that […]
Indian telco Bharati Airtel and U.S.- based chipmaker Intel announced on Wednesday a collaboration to develop 5G network by leveraging virtualized radio access network (vRAN) and open radio access network (O-RAN) technologies in India. According to Intel’s statement this collaboration will evolve communications networks from fixed-function equipment to virtualized cloud-native deployments and enable edge-to-cloud communications to power hyperconnected world. The Indian telco will deploy Intel’s latest 3rd gen Xeon Scalable […]