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India's Airtel, TCS tap robotics to roll and build 5G based technology

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel and IT major Tata Consultancy Services partnered to build a 5G-based remote working technology using robotics, according to a press release from the digital communications solution provider.  While both companies are operating the trials in Airtel’s 5G lab at Manesar, these solutions will allow remote robotic operations in possibly dangerous environments […]

T-Mobile Suffers from Another Cyber Threat Exposing SIMs and Info

T-Mobile reported on Tuesday yet another cyber threat where criminals accessed “a small number of” users’ accounts, following a devastating data breach dating back to August 2021. The T-Mobile’s report revealed how the telecom operator noticed “unauthorized activity” on some accounts, where hackers gained access to view customer proprietary network information (CPNI), “an active SIM […]

Asian shares mostly slip amid lingering omicron worries

Asian shares mostly slipped Wednesday, as worries lingered about the coronavirus omicron variant’s potential damage to the regional economy following mixed cues from Wall Street. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.9% in morning trading to 28,809.86. South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.9% to 2,993.38, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1.2% to 7,510.80. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng […]

China pursues tech 'self-reliance,' fueling global unease

To help make China a self-reliant “technology superpower,” the ruling Communist Party is pushing the world’s biggest e-commerce company to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor chips — a business unlike anything Alibaba Group has done before. Its 3-year-old chip unit, T-Head, unveiled its third processor in October, the Yitian […]

Asian shares mixed as omicron worries crimp market optimism

Asian shares rose Tuesday, although optimism set off by a rally on Wall Street was dampened by concerns over the potential impact of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.4% to finish at 29,069.16. South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.5% to 3,015.63. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng recouped early losses to edge […]

How Doomscrolling shaped the path of the future

COVID-19 came, and with it came the reshaping of human habits. We went from constantly checking our phones for entertainment purposes to the endless scrolling for news updates, be it pandemic-related, politics, or any kind of news that would deliver a higher clarity to where the world was going. November 19, a date will be […]

India's first rural 5G trial begins at Gujarat's Ajol

India’s first 5G technology trials for rural broadband began at Ajol village in the state of Gujarat with a base transceiver station (BTS) installed 17km away at Unava town in the Gandhinagar district. As such, the team which involved officials of the department of telecom (DoT) and executives from two private telecom operators were able […]

Tiktok Sued by Former In-House Moderator for Neglecting Employees’ Mental Health 

Ex-TikTok video moderator is accusing parent company, ByteDance, of failing to take care of their employees’ mental wellbeing against a nearly endless barrage of traumatic footage viewed and filtered out daily throughout long working hours.   Candie Frazier was subjected to viewing hours of disturbing content, including mass shootings, animal mutilation, child rape, suicide, cannibalism, gang violence, murder, […]