‘AMAZING’ BIONIC HAND CAN BE UPDATED WITH NEW GESTURES ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE

Sat 20  August 2022: Numerous advancements have been made in the field of prosthetics, however it has been difficult to modify the products because of the difficulties machine learning has encountered. But a recent invention from a British business named Covvi has identified a possible solution to the problem. Utilizing “electrical impulses from the muscles […]

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ENGINEERS DEVELOP SMART TEXTILE WHICH ACTS LIKE BIOLOGICAL MUSCLE

Fri 19  August 2022: A team of Australian biomedical engineers has created a smart textile with artificial’muscles’ in the hopes that it would revolutionize the future of soft robotics and wearable exoskeletons. The scientists used models of a butterfly and flower fashioned out of the textile that performed intricate motions in their lab to show how easily the […]

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INDONESIA’S WIDODO URGES TESLA TO MAKE ITS ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN COUNTRY

Fri 19  August 2022: In statements to Bloomberg News on Thursday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo invited the manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs), Tesla, to produce both its automobiles and batteries there, Reuters reported. The president, known as Jokowi, stated in an interview that Indonesia wants to create a “huge ecosystem of electric cars” as opposed […]

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TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED APPLICATIONS WORLDWIDE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2022

Fri 19  August 2022: The top five applications downloaded globally in the first half of 2022 have been ranked by Apptopia, an application-focused platform. Here is the list, and it should come as no surprise that a Chinese company is at the top. 5- CAPCUT CapCut, a quite comprehensive, free tool for video editing, is […]

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SUSPECTED CHINESE HACKERS SPIED ON GOV’TS, NGOS, MEDIA: REPORT

Thu 18 August 2022:  Cybersecurity firm says Amnesty International and Taiwan’s ruling party among organisations targeted in campaign. Taipei, Taiwan – A hacking group suspected of acting on behalf of the Chinese government has carried out a multi-year espionage campaign against numerous governments, NGOs, think-tanks and news agencies, according to a new report. The group, known […]

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NETFLIX’S AD-SUPPORTED PLAN MAY BLOCK DOWNLOADS FOR OFFLINE VIEWING

Thu 18 August 2022: The planned ad-supported tier of popular video streaming platform Netflix is unlikely to make the platform’s offline viewing function available to members on this low-end tier of the service. According to TechCrunch, this revelation was made after developer Steve Moser discovered code within the Netflix iPhone app indicating that the streaming […]

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NASA’S GIANT UNCREWED MOON ROCKET EMERGES FOR DEBUT LAUNCH

Wed 17 August 2022: NASA’s huge Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long journey to its launchpad on Tuesday night in preparation for the behemoth’s first test flight later this month. The 98-meter-tall rocket is scheduled to go into orbit without a human crew on August 29. It […]

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APPLE LAYS OFF EMPLOYEES AFTER GOOGLE’S “BLOOD IN THE STREETS” WARNING

Tue 16  August 2022: Following Google’s “blood in the streets” warning to its employees, Apple Inc. has now laid off many of its employees in an effort to limit its recruiting and spending, according to a report. According to Bloomberg, Apple sacked about 100 contract-based recruiters who were responsible for hiring new employees for the world’s […]

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TELEGRAM INTRODUCES 10 NEW EMOJI PACKS; USERS CAN UPLOAD THEIR OWN EMOJIS

Mon 15  August 2022: The CEO and founder of Telegram has officially made the feature available, a day after Pavel Durov said that an update had been under review by Apple for two weeks. The latest version, in accordance with Durov, is jam-packed with emoji-related functionality. One is absent, though, as the IT giant specifically […]

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