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Uber also said it would reach out to its registered drivers to connect them to logistics companies for employment

Airbnb announced the new investment to thrive in a travel world transformed by the coronavirus pandemic

Around 28% of people around the world don’t think they will be able to survive a single day without wifi

Samsung expects higher first-quarter profits, as millions of people working from home in coronavirus lockdowns

ResearchGate, a social network site for scientists and researchers, has launched a new forum

Government to improve internet accessibility to facilitate students

Facebook will start surveying US users about their health as part of a Carnegie Mellon University research project

OPPO donated PKR 5 Million and an additional amount of PKR 1.2 Million was raised by the help of employees

Lockdowns and travel restrictions prompted by coronavirus have been a boon to JOOX

The coronavirus-driven global shift to working from home is set to have boosted demand for Samsung’s memory chips

Apple has said it will soon be producing one million face shields a week for medical workers

Face masks could help limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers

The factory’s 35 workers are producing a version of this machine that allows coronavirus patients to be ventilated

Federal minister says soon to have own COVID-19 testing kits and ventilators

Crucible is a team-based multiplayer game in which you survive in a hostile alien world

Multi-billion-dollar streaming platform Quibi also aims to keep users coming back with daily news and sports

NHS England’s Stephen Powis said the 5G conspiracy was fake news with no scientific backing

Amazon is looking into the ability to screen more than one person at a time for the virus

Launching of 581 objects in 2019 and 354 in first quarter of 2020 shows the alarming increase

Oxygen could be supplied to four patients at once by using this splitter

Google data also reveals only a small percentage of people are actually staying at home despite restrictions

Amazon has been in contact with the CEOs of two coronavirus test-makers

Armed with screening questionnaires and testing kits, medics and volunteers set up their testing station

Zoom videoconferencing application is being used to get together while staying apart during coronavirus pandemic

Telecom operators have taken an extra step to facilitate their users across Pakistan

Officials, doctors, and engineers are looking at how smartphones could be used against the spread of coronavirus

Google doodle recognises legendary Pakistani squash player Hashim Khan, one of the sport’s all-time greatest players

Poland launched a smartphone app, called Home Quarantine, for citizens returning from abroad

Amazon is postponing its major summer shopping event, Prime Day

Webex and rival meeting platforms from Zoom and Microsoft’s Teams are being used worldwide as people stay at home

The new coronavirus might spread through the air via normal breathing and speaking

#PlayApartTogether campaign consists of 18 video game companies including Twitch and Activision Blizzard

Internet users have seen a surge in COVID-related cyberattacks and fraud schemes

Search for good news has reached levels more than double that of any time since Google began publishing search data

The Myanmar leader has spent 15 years under house arrest and missed the emergence of laptops and smartphones

Volunteers stepped up to produce hundreds of face shields at a workshop with 3D-printing and carving machine

Google’s analysis of location data from billions of users’ phones is the largest public dataset available

Chilean telescopes have fallen victim to the mass disruption brought about by the new coronavirus

Google will begin to allow some clients, including hospitals, to run advertisements relating to the coronavirus

The move comes as the use of videoconferencing apps like Zoom have soared

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX banned its employees from using the Zoom app

Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ with over 59 million installs in the first quarter of 2020

Users can send content to Facta through a WhatsApp message to check it is authentic

Personal data protection is a thorny subject in privacy-loving Germany

Zoom is struggling to cope with the surge in users amid the coronavirus outbreak

The nightclub partnered with gaming equipment company Razer and the live-streaming app

The initiative proposes keeping a record of when a smartphone comes in close range with another

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has banned its employees from using Zoom, video conferencing app

Google has also launched Bolo, a speech-based reading app that uses machine learning to help children

Brazilian President Bolsonaro posted a video online of a market supposedly hit by shortages caused by coronavirus