Global medical tech major publishes ventilator design to boost production in fight against coronavirus

Medtronic PB 560 ventilator is a compact, lightweight, and portable ventilator that provides airway support for both adults and children

Israel working on app that can tell from your voice if you're infected by coronavirus

Voice samples from virus carriers in various stages of illness and non-infected people are being collected to detect a vocal 'fingerprint'

A 30% to 60% surge has been reported in people playing online and offline multiplayer games

The apps employ GPS data and geofencing to alert authorities of users breaching preset virtual geographical boundaries

YouTube, Twitter, Apple, Facebook and Instagram had banned Alex Jones from their platforms in 2018 and 2019

Authoritarian regimes such as China use COVID-19 as a pretext to suppress independent speech and restrict fundamental rights

Police around the world seized 34,000 counterfeit surgical masks in one major operation targeting so-called "corona criminals" this month

A lot of people are using racist hashtags such as #Kungflu, #chinesevirus and #communistvirus as they tweet about the pandemic

As a minority investor, Microsoft does not have enough oversight to ensure that the startup’s tech is not used for mass surveillance

Recently the US ordered a site removed after it claimed to sell COVID-19 vaccine, whereas no such vaccine exists yet