By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — As India enters an extended coronavirus lockdown, the government is actively pursuing contact tracing to help control infections. At the heart of the effort in the country of 1.3 billion people is a smartphone app that evaluates users’ infection risk based on location services such as […]
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T-Mobile US recently unveiled its plans to activate its new standalone (SA) 5G network later on this year, after a successful set of tests in anticipation of that goal, T-Mobile US had recently finalized its merger with Sprint, and has designed an SA 5G network with assistance from multiple vendors such as Ericsson, Cisco, Nokia, […]
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Airbnb says it is laying off 25% of its workforce as it confronts a steep decline in global travel due to the new coronavirus pandemic. It’s a serious setback for the 12-year-old home-sharing company, which just a few months ago was valued at $31 billion and planning a hotly […]
Twitter has experienced a net loss in the first quarter of this year. Despite a record growth increase in daily twitter users, a 24% increase to 166 million in the first quarter, the company experienced a net loss of $8.4 million. While the growth in users can perhaps be attributed to Covid-19 lockdowns, the pandemic […]
In the battle against Covid-19 multiple artificial intelligence laboratories are now turning to a surprising piece of evidence that could possibly help diagnose the illness: people’s voices. A team of scientists from Harvard and MIT are using machine learning to go through voice recordings from COVID-19 patients and healthy people to try and identify certain […]
SK Telecom this week, announced the Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with Ariacare Korea and Happy Connect to recognize the importance of social connectedness and technology for elder care. The MOU signing ceremony took place in SK Telecom’s HQ, located in Jung-gu, Seoul. Guests included Lee Joon-ho, Vice President and Head of Social Value Group at […]
In the last few years, AI Has been responsible for the transformation of multiple fields, coupled with the increasing efficiency of using improved datasets. One such area in which AI has excelled in is Robo Advisory which is a field that has an extensive amount of financial big data to analyse. Robo-advisors are AI built […]
Initial cases of COVID-19 were first declared in December 2019, in Wuhan, China. After four months, the virus has now been diagnosed in 167 countries and almost 140,000 people have died. The impact of the disease throughout the world will have unprecedented consequences for virtually all aspects of the global economy. The world seems to […]
By AMANDA SEITZ and BARBARA ORTUTAY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation has spread from continent to continent like the pandemic itself, forcing the world’s largest tech companies to take unprecedented action to protect public health. Facebook, Google and others have begun using algorithms, new rules and factual warnings to knock […]
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s most famous independent booksellers, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, was in dire financial shape because of the coronavirus outbreak and asked for help. Help quickly arrived. Within days of starting a GoFundMe campaign last week seeking $300,000, the store received […]