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Microsoft Mesh’s Augmented Reality

Microsoft soon releasing its most advanced futuristic technology for users to collaborate in augmented reality. One of the biggest names associated with communicative collaboration in our present time is Microsoft. This has been highlighted in the past year after the emerge of the COVID-19 pandemic and organizations transitioning into a more flexible remote work environment. […]

Apple Turns to Google for iCloud Storage, Report Finds

In a classical plot twisting manner, a newly published report showed that Big Tech giant Apple resorts to using Google’s server farms to store iCloud Data in a partnership that sees the iPhone maker as one of Google’s largest clients. The report, published by The Information, revealed that Apple entrusts its rival Google with user […]

Facebook reaches trillion-dollar company status

Facebook has officially joined the trillion-dollar company club after yesterday’s stock market close, according to Yahoo Finance. The landmark came following the tech giant’s victory in a court against Federal Trade Commission (FTC) where a federal court rejected two lawsuits from the FTC and a coalition of state, spiking Facebook shares up 4.2 percent. The […]

MIT, Harvard develop smart face mask to detect COVID-19

Scientists at MIT and Harvard University have created a smart face mask that can detect COVID-19 results of the person wearing it within about 90 minutes. The masks are implanted with tiny, non-reusable sensors that can be attached into other face masks and could also be altered to detect other viruses. The sensors are based […]

Dingdong Maicai U.S. IPO slashed by 74% as operating loss mounts

Popular Chinese grocery shopping app Dingdong has slashed its initial public offering by 74 percent on Monday, a mere three days following it’s rival MissFresh witnessed disappointing placements on Nasdaq. Many pundits and industry analysts have argued that the reason for Dingdong’s fall from grace is due to the cooling appetite of online grocery-based apps, […]

BuzzFeed to become a publicly traded company

Digital media company BuzzFeed is setting its sights on growth. It plans to become a publicly traded company with an implied value of $1.5 billion through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. BuzzFeed hopes the move will put it in a better position to capture lucrative digital ad dollars against much bigger rivals […]

Brief, global internet outages blamed on software bug

A software bug at a major network provider briefly knocked dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe offline during peak business hours in Asia. Akamai, which runs one of the internet’s main content-delivery systems, said the outage Thursday was not caused by a cyberattack, but rather a software bug on a […]

Want a job? Employers say: Talk to the computer

A day after her interview for a part-time job at Target last year, Dana Anthony got an email informing her she didn’t make the cut. Anthony didn’t know why — a situation common to most job seekers at one point or another. But she also had no sense at all of how the interview had […]

Gains for some tech giants nudge S&P to another record high

Technology companies helped lift stocks higher on Wall Street, nudging the S&P 500 to its third straight all-time high, even as other parts of the market faltered. A burst of buying in the final 10 minutes of trading sent the benchmark index 0.2% higher. The S&P 500 had been down 0.3% earlier amid another bout […]