Hala Turk

Hala is a journalist and an editor with experience in the news industry. She enjoys writing motivational stories aiming to inspire people to overachieve.

CW TEC 2021 explores future of 5G private network

Cambridge Wireless (CW) kicked off on Wednesday its yearly conference “CW TECH 2021,” with a means to explore the up-and-coming trends of 5G private network from the engineering front. The British nonprofit aspired, through its two days virtual conference, to move past the marketing messages and learn more about the tactics in the rising technology […]

Audacity scrambles to clarify privacy terms to ease users

Audio-editing software Audacity has been accused by its users of being spyware for governments, following its update of its privacy terms which would see it collecting private user data. The privacy terms, which were released last week, state that the program will start collecting certain forms of “personal data” like the user’s operating system name […]

Ericsson & Entel Telcos agree to launch 5G & IoT services in Chile

Ericsson, the Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company and Entel telcos partnered to launch 5G and IoT services in Chile. Through this agreement the largest Chilean telecommunications company, Entel, will install a 5G network using products and solutions from the Ericsson Radio System and Ericsson Spectrum Sharing portfolio, including Massive MIMO radios for high-band (26GHz), […]

Airbnb Party ban blocks thousands of bookings across the U.S.

The Airbnb party ban feature has automatically blocked over 50,000 “suspicious” bookings across 15 U.S. cities as part of the company’s strategy to clampdown on parties during the pandemic. The automated feature blocked 7,000 in Dallas, 6,000 in San Diego, 5,100 in Charlotte, 3,500 in St. Louis, 3,000 in Columbus, and 2,700 in New Orleans, […]

Bitcoin mining difficulty drops by 28% after China crackdown

Bitcoin mining difficulty has decreased by 28 percent, considering the recent drop-in hash rate caused by China’s declaration in May to clamp down on mining and trading. This difficulty adjustment was the largest in its history with more than 54 percent of bitcoin’s hash rate, which is the collective computing power of miners worldwide, has […]

New update for WhatsApp video places quality at the helm

Facebook and WhatsApp are currently testing two separate new updates, that will look to make both platforms a safer space for people to network, while the latter focuses more on its video-sharing quality. WhatsApp Messenger, a subsidiary of Facebook since 2014, is developing a new feature allowing users to control the quality of videos sent […]

Apple publishes list of products that can affect pacemakers

People who have a pacemaker or an implantable cardioverter defibrillator should be aware that the magnets used in common tech gadgets may potentially interfere with their medical devices. Accordingly, Apple published a list of its products that might risk tampering with medical devices such as pacemakers and implanted defibrillators. The Big Tech company advised its […]

Google Cloud, Ericsson partner up on 5G Cloud solutions

Google Cloud and Ericsson announced earlier this week a joint project that will provide new 5G cloud solutions to help communications service providers (CSPs) digitally transform and to unlock new enterprise and consumer use cases. The pair aims to merge Google Cloud’s services with 5G wireless equipment built by Ericsson to develop new solutions at […]

Google double down on financial fraud ads in the U.K.

Search giant Google is looking to clamp down on online financial fraud ads in the U.K. by the end of August, as its mentioned in a blog post. Any financial company that aims to promote its services must be authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Ronan Harris director of the company in U.K. and […]

New Instagram update looks to heavily lean into video

Instagram is no longer a square photo-sharing app, the company’s head Adam Mosseri said, as the application is looking to undergo profound changes via two features that have been announced, and another that was leaked. Mosseri highlighted this fact during a video he published on Wednesday on both his personal Instagram and Twitter accounts, noting […]