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UAE and UK to release Scalable Coronavirus Detection Solution

A promising solution was recently revealed through a partnership between the UAE and the UK. UAE’s Group 42 (G42) is bringing its artificial intelligence and cloud computing expertise to the table, alongside UK’s Oxford Nanopore’s advanced sequencing products. Together, they claim to have developed a “population-scale technology” that can quickly and accurately detect the virus […]

Fintech: Your new way of banking after Covid-19

Fintech allows you to perform all kinds of operations wherever and whenever you want. Financial technology is a tool that has been changing the way we work with money. The Fintech market will pin its worth at approximately $ 305.7 billion by 2023 according to the Global Fintech Market (2018-2023). Due to social distancing, Fintech […]

UK regulators investigate Facebook's purchase of Giphy

LONDON (AP) — British regulators have opened an investigation into Facebook’s recent purchase of Giphy over concerns that it will stifle competition. The Competition and Markets Authority said Friday it’s examining the deal over concern it will result in “substantial lessening of competition in any market or markets in the United Kingdom.” The social network […]

Meeting sustainability targets – a priority for telcos

Telefonica has already achieved one of its sustainability targets way ahead of its deadline. The company has now taken the impressive step of saying that it now plans to reach its target of zero net emissions in at least four main markets by the year 2030 – 20 years earlier than they had originally planned. […]

Alla Goldner, Director, Technology, Strategy & Standardization at Amdocs

Amdocs is an international company founded in 1982 that specializes in software and services for communications, media and financial services providers and digital enterprises. The company helps service providers, communications agencies and financial service providers with modernizing solutions that involve digitization and automating systems and services in many industries.  Mrs. Alla Goldner, Director, Technology, Strategy […]

The not-so-private Incognito Mode

You’ve gone Incognito? Well, you can’t browse privately. On June 2, 2020, a $5 billion lawsuit has been filed to the US District Court for the Northern District of California by a partner at the Boies Schiller Flexner law firm accusing Google of illegally gathering information during users’ private Incognito mode browsing sessions. As this […]

UV Light to help reduce COVID-19 transmission indoors

According to a report from Columbia News, a new technology that zaps airborne viruses with a narrow wavelength band of UV light shows future potential for reducing COVID-19 transmission indoors. The technology is currently being developed by Columbia University’s Center for Radiological Research and it utilizes lamps that projects a particular, continuous low-dose wavelength of […]

Japan court backs Karpeles conviction for data manipulation

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese high court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision that the French head of Mt. Gox, a Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange that went bankrupt after a massive hacking attack, was guilty of manipulating electronic data but not embezzlement. The Tokyo District Court last year sentenced […]

Legislation might be the only tool to stop phone scams

Every person is a victim of a phone scam, even William Webster, the former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Service providers can sell your phone number for scammers to commit unlawful acts for hundreds of dollars. In fact, the call operations can do a Google search to find brokers who sell phone […]

Virtual Reality – can it harm our eyesight?

While technology has enhanced our lives in many ways and offered solutions, too much of anything, has its own set of repercussions. Prior research has indicated that being overly connected can cause psychological issues, from distraction, narcissism, expectation of instant gratification, and depression. Besides affecting user’s mental health, intense use of technology (and physical inactivity) […]