By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Goodbye lockdown, hello smartphone. As governments race to develop mobile tracing apps to help contain infections, attention is turning to how officials will ensure users’ privacy. The debate is especially urgent in Europe, which has been one of the hardest-hit regions in the world, with nearly […]
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According to experts, the incredible speed of this technology and data delivery should bring vital changes across industries and to almost all economic sectors, unleashing a significant IOT ecosystem and enabling applications including advanced real-time communication, remote surgery, cloud-assisted autonomous vehicles, to name but a few. 5G has been highly anticipated as it represents a […]
A new ITU/UN report has highlighted that frontier technologies such as AI, 5G and robotics are key components in the fight against climate change. Released to mark the occasion of Earth Day 2020, the report shows success in areas ranging from cutting emissions in cities to natural disaster risk reduction, smart water management, and precise […]
By BARBARA ORTUTAY, DEE-ANN DURBIN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE The Associated Press Just as the coronavirus outbreak has boxed in society, it’s also squeezed high-flying tech companies reliant on people’s freedom to move around and get together. Since the beginning of March, for instance, Uber shares have lost a quarter of their value. Rival Lyft is […]
By REGINA GARCIA CANO and AARON MORRISON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ceri Weber had just begun to defend her dissertation when the chaos began: Echoes and voices interrupted her. Someone parroted her words. Then Britney Spears music came on, and someone told Weber to shut up. Someone threatened to rape her. Hackers had targeted […]
WUHAN, China (AP) — Since the coronavirus outbreak, life in China is ruled by a green symbol on a smartphone screen. Green is the “health code” that says a user is symptom-free and it’s required to board a subway, check into a hotel or just enter Wuhan, the central city of 11 million people where […]
Industry 4.0 – Also known as the 4th industrial revolution, is a leap into everything digital. It embraces a new industrial revolution through intelligent and self-reliant technologies. Its aim is to connect the digital world with the physical one and phase out any boundaries between the two. With the support of connectivity it is a […]
The current Coronavirus pandemic has driven a huge 72% increase in the use of FinTech applications in Europe. The research, published by deVere group found that at a time when most industries in the economy are starting to feel the impact of what is already being labelled an international recession. This sharp increase in app […]
The Corona crisis is the first pandemic in the era of 5G. In today’s competitive and reactive market place, scammers, hackers, conspiracy theorists etc. continue to put out false information that is now spreading quicker than ever. American Professor, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, from the University of Pennsylvania calls this “viral disinformation”. However, what happens now, […]
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer If you hadn’t already heard have of Zoom Video Communications, there is a decent chance you’ve made its acquaintance over the past few weeks. Millions of people are now working from home as part of the intensifying fight against the coronavirus outbreak. In addition to using the video conference […]