Wed 28 October 2020: Microsoft Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Tuesday, powered by growth in its flagship cloud computing business as the software giant continued to benefit from a global shift to remote work and e-learning. The shift to work from home has accelerated adoption of cloud-based computing, benefitting companies such […]
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Tue 27 October 2020: Ankhi Das, the Facebook policy chief for India, has resigned her position after months of escalating pressure from activists. In a statement, Facebook said Das was leaving the company to pursue public service. A statement by Ajit Mohan, Facebook India’s Managing Director, said: “Ankhi has decided to step down from her role […]
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Tue 27 October 2020: A recent mission by NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed that, the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the Moon, marking a historic discovery with potential implications for US plans to send a manned crew to Mars. The discovery was made with SOFIA, NASA’s airborne observatory […]
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Mon 26 October 2020: There is huge momentum toward adoption of battery electric vehicles primarily because performances are meeting or exceeding the properties of traditional automobiles. Consumers want electric vehicles that have a similar driving range (energy density) and charging styles and times (power density) to gasoline-powered vehicles. “One pathway to improving the energy density of the […]
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Sun 25 October 2020: Most currently available mobile devices use red, green and blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens manufactured by depositing dots of organic film through metal sheets with many holes punched in them. Such displays typically have a pixel density of 400 to 500 pixels per inch (PPI), while the size of the dots is […]
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Sat 24 October 2020: Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) designed a heated mask that would filter and inactivate the coronavirus, reducing the risk of infection. According to Sci-Tech Daily, the reusable mask will include a heated copper mesh that will be powered by a battery. According to the research, the mesh and […]
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Fri 23 October 2020: The world’s most popular messaging service is pushing more aggressively into customer service features WhatsApp has announced a number of changes that it is rolling out to its messaging app, including the ability to make purchases from directly within the application. “Over the last few years, we’ve seen a real shift […]
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Thu 22 October 2020: The “new discovery contributes to NASA’s efforts to learn about the Moon in support of deep space exploration” According to the latest dispatch from NASA, the space agency has an “exciting new discovery about the Moon” coming on Monday 26 October. Curiously, the new results are courtesy of the Stratospheric Observatory […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: The US Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off rivals. The move comes after months of investigations by federal and state antitrust enforcers seeking to check the power of the […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: Facebook has developed an artificial intelligence capable of accurately translating between any pair of 100 languages without relying on first translating to English, as many existing systems do. The AI outperforms such systems by 10 points on a 100-point scale used by academics to automatically evaluate the quality of machine translations. Translations produced by […]
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