SINGAPORE SAYS POLICE CAN USE COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING DATA FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS

Tue 05 January 2021: Singapore has admitted its law enforcers will be able to access the country’s COVID-19 contact tracing data for criminal investigations, a decision likely to increase privacy concerns around the system. Officials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking. But parliament was […]

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“SOLIDARITY WITH ONE ANOTHER”: WORKERS AT GOOGLE PARENT ALPHABET FORM TRADE UNION

Mon 04 January 2021: Employees at Google and other units of parent firm Alphabet announced the creation Monday of a union, stepping up a period of activism targeting Silicon Valley giants to benefit labor protections and make their working conditions inclusive and fair. Alphabet Workers Union said in a statement Monday it will include all […]

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OVER 1.4 BILLION VIDEO AND VOICE CALLS WERE MADE VIA WHATSAPP ON NEW YEAR’S EVE

Sun 03 January 2021: Facebook has revealed that WhatsApp witnessed 50 percent increase in video and voice calling on New Year’s eve 2020 in comparison to last year. WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps all over the world and the service lets you conveniently make calls for free without any time restriction. As […]

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VW IS PREPARING AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS TO SOLVE ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING PROBLEM

Sun 03 January 2021: Soon enough we’ll all be driving electric cars. This future is already written in stone – various countries already announced when they are going to ban cars with internal combustion engines. But how will we charge all those cars? Volkswagen is exploring many different possibilities, including special autonomous car-charging robots. How […]

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TELEGRAM APP TO LAUNCH PAY-FOR SERVICES IN 2021 WITH COUNTLESS NEW FEATURES

Thu 24 December 2020: Encrypted messaging app Telegram will launch pay-for services in 2021, its Russian-born founder Pavel Durov said Wednesday, as the growing company needed “at least a few hundred million dollars per year”. “Telegram will begin to generate revenue, starting next year,” Durov said in a statement. “We will be able to launch […]

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