When General Motors boldly announced its goal last month to make only battery-powered vehicles by 2035, it didn’t just break from more than a century of internal combustion engines. It also clouded the future for 50,000 GM workers whose jobs could become obsolete far sooner than they knew. The message was clear: As a greener […]
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Australia’s Parliament will debate making Google and Facebook pay for news after a Senate committee on Friday recommended no changes to the world-first draft laws. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has been scrutinizing the bill since it was introduced in Parliament in December. The senators rejected Facebook and Google’s arguments that the so-called media bargaining […]
State-owned Omantel announced on Wednesday the launch of its 5G mobile services within the Sultanate, providing users further value and speed, as they place the full potential of the fifth generation of communications into their hands. The operator had previously setup its 5G rollout roadmap as early back as 2019, with Oman introducing 5G home […]
During 2020, many technologies and digital industries witnessed a hailstorm of investments mainly due to the worldwide lockdowns enforced as a result of the novel COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, it comes as no surprise that EdTech was one of the industries that flew high during hardship-packed year. India – one of the world’s largest consumer markets […]
Telecoms has become the lubricant that keeps societal communication wheels turning forward, especially so with the rising demand of individual and businesses for increased connectivity during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Categorized as an essential industry, the telecoms industry beefed up its capabilities during worldwide lockdowns to accommodate all of humanity to remain connected. With that […]
Founder and CEO of Chinese tech-titan Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, has called on the newly elected Biden administration to lessen the severity of the restrictions made on Chinese firms by his predecessor Donald Trump. While addressing a local media roundtable, Ren admitted that it is rather unlikely that U.S. President Joe Biden would overturn or drastically […]
Thus far, a cinematic horror-show of wealth-destroying, dysfunctional robots, is not quite a reality – or at least not yet. It seems people, or rather banking service consumers, trust personal finance robots more than themselves to manage their money, according to a new study by Oracle and personal finance expert Faroosh Torabi, and host of the “So Money” podcast. The study of more than 9,000 consumers […]
The Biden administration is backing off former President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban the popular video app TikTok, asking a court to postpone a legal dispute over the proposed ban as the government begins a broader review of the national security threats posed by Chinese technology companies. A court filing Wednesday said the U.S. Commerce […]
Chinese tech company ZTE and China Telecom completed on Tuesday the industry’s first NodeEngine pilot, taking place on one of Yanghzhou’s commercial networks. According to a joint statement, “Based on its existing network 5G & NodeEngine traffic offloading service,” ZTE – which is partially state-owned – has assisted China Telecom in rapidly deploying smart industrial […]
The east African country of Tanzania has been in a precarious situation since the beginning of the pandemic. Many families have lost loved ones due to the virus, yet government officials still deny that Covid-19 is a danger, and most recently even refuse the vaccine. Now, the country’s health authorities and president refuse to obtain […]