Missing out on Thin Mints in the pandemic? A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people’s doorsteps in a Virginia community. The town of Christiansburg has been a testing ground for commercial delivery drones operated by Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s corporate parent Alphabet. Now the company is adding the […]
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Popular gaming and community chat app Discord Inc. has pulled out of talks to be acquired by tech giant Microsoft Corp, as the company looks to go after an initial public offering at a later stage, The Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter. But while negotiations between both parties ended without […]
Apple spruced up its product line at an event Tuesday while slipping in quiet notice of a software update, now due next week, designed to enhance the privacy of iPhone users at the expense of digital advertisers such as Facebook. Timing for the software upgrade trickled out during a series of announcements for new iPads, […]
The fiery crash of a Tesla near Houston with no one behind the wheel is drawing scrutiny from two federal agencies that could bring new regulation of electronic systems that take on some driving tasks. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety board said Monday they would send teams to investigate […]
The concept of flying cars has triggered humanity’s fancy for decades, appearing in all kinds of sci-fi and futuristic forms of entertainment from the silver screen to video games. With Marty McFly’s prediction of having flying cars by 2015 shattered, it looks as though the dream of “drive and fly” is in the early stages […]
Twitter might be interested in buying Clubhouse, according to Bloomberg, adding that “The social media platform held talks in recent months to buy Clubhouse, the buzzy, audio-based, social network, for $4 billion.” The talks between the two social media platforms have reportedly stopped, and it is unclear why. It is also unclear whether Twitter or […]
In a MedTech first for the Mediterranean country of Lebanon, a team from the American University of Beirut (AUB) has established a biotech corporation in the U.S. devoted research on biomarkers for cardiovascular disease. The school told Inside Telecom that team physicians and scientists from AUB have founded the first US-based biotech S-Corporation, Teucer Biotech […]
Australian telcos have blocked 55 million scam calls to Australian phone numbers since new rules requiring providers to detect, trace and block scam calls were introduced in December 2020 by the Australian Communications and Media Regulator (ACMA). According to the regulatory body, the total number of blocked scam calls include nearly 11 million ‘Wangiri’ scam […]
“Frontline healthcare workers and care givers have been absolutely vital to our response to the pandemic and out of all of the challenges of managing the spikes of COVID-19, there has been a lot of innovation in healthcare,” NHS Tayside’s medical director, Professor Peter Stonebridge, said. Thanks to the input of other experts in manufacturing […]
China looked to Europe as an amicable partner as the continent’s leaders resisted being drawn into President Donald Trump’s conflicts with Beijing over trade, technology and human rights. On Monday, that image shattered when the European Union joined Washington, Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Chinese officials over accusations they abused ethnic minorities. Beijing […]