Tech

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

Tommy is one of six new robots helping flesh-and-blood doctors and nurses care for coronavirus patients

A pledge by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to send two reusable cloth face masks to every household

Antibodies that are “extremely effective” at blocking the ability of the new coronavirus to enter cells

President Donald Trump spoke with the biggest US internet and mobile phone providers

130 researchers from eight countries to develop applications that can support contact tracing efforts

Global companies whose revenues have taken a hit during the coronavirus pandemic

Huawei warned that 2020 would be its most difficult year yet due to American trade restrictions

AI analytics software can measure the temperature of a person’s forehead, sending out an alert if it detects a fever

The deadly outbreak has already been accompanied by online misinformation

Data collected via a symptom tracker app developed by British scientists to help monitor the pandemic

Apple more than doubled its donation to China’s efforts to fight COVID-19 to over $7 million

The second hacking incident for the hotel operator in less than two years

California-based HP had rejected the last Xerox bid as too low

There is no known treatment for the new coronavirus that emerged in China claiming more than 30,000 lives

The automotive industry is offering its expertise and manpower to the hospital sector

Video conferencing app Zoom, which has seen its popularity skyrocket in the coronavirus pandemic

The drug will be administered for a maximum of 14 days to coronavirus patients between 20 and 74 years old

The Pakistan Government Corona WhatsApp Helpline is an automated ‘chatbot’ service

Huawei's net profit for 2019 came in at $8.9 billion

Two dozen patients have reported undesirable side effects after taking Plaquenil

Virgin Orbit has developed a new mass-producible bridge ventilator to help in fighting coronavirus

PTCL is offering free of cost internet to double play voice and TV customers till April 30, 2020

Facebook and Instagram removed videos of Brazilian president as they spread misinformation about the coronavirus

Amazon said it fired an employee who helped organise the action for alleged violations of his employment

South Korean panel maker Samsung Display has decided to end all of its production of LCD panels

Facebook pledged $100 million in financing and advertising spending to support news organisations

Google Arts and Culture offers a virtual tour of 3,468 museums from around the world

Trump said that the two drugs could be a "gift from God"