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In this March 16, 2020, image made from video, a boy takes hand sanitizer from a ZhenRobotics robot as it patrols a plaza in Shanghai. (Photo | AP)

Chinese firm's robots in demand amid coronavirus outbreak

The robots deliver groceries and patrol malls looking for shoppers who fail to wear masks

20 March 2020 9:29 PM IST

Pop-up messages directing users to credible coronavirus COVID-19 resources are displayed when one opens YouTube.

After Facebook, now YouTube takes measures to promote authoritative...

The move is the latest by technology platforms to curb rumours and hoaxes about the pandemic

20 March 2020 9:05 PM IST

The impact of air pollution on the skin is also known as polluaging.

Novel machine-learning based system predicts air pollution

Large amounts of data are fed into the system to enable predictions from learning patterns and other features

20 March 2020 8:49 PM IST

This wearable available on letstrack.in is mainly used to track children when

Relying on technology for safety, Women take to tracking apps and...

Even coronavirus patients are being tracked using technology in countries like South Korea and Singapore

20 March 2020 7:39 PM IST

The Work@Home plan offers up to 5GB of free internet a day at 10 Mbps speed after which the speed is reduced to 1 Gbps for further usage. It is an unlimited plan with no cap on uploads and downloads.

One less worry while working from home: BSNL offers free broadband...

The offer is available to existing BSNL landline customers without any installation charges

20 March 2020 5:50 PM IST

In this Feb. 13, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, workers wearing masks labor at a factory for Chinese telecommunications company OPPO in Dongguan, in southern Chinas Guangdong Province. (Photo | AP)

Supply of phones, computers yet to spring back as China factories...

Over 80% of Apple, Samsung phones, 50% of world's PCs are made in China but chips must come from US where production is...

19 March 2020 8:23 PM IST

This meme comments on how strenuous working from home can be.

Help these researchers with corona memes: A study is on to find out...

A University of Amsterdam team has opened a portal where you can share memes in English, Mandarin, Korean, Polish, Dutch...

19 March 2020 7:03 PM IST

Real-time updates from national health authorities and global organisations such as the World Health Organisation, as well as vettehelpful articles, videos and posts about social distancing and preventing the spread of COVID-19

Facebook rolling out updated News Feed with fact-checked coronavirus...

The feature will be available today in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, UK and US, and will be expanded to more countries...

19 March 2020 5:13 PM IST

Amazon threatens workers in France with pay cut for exercising right of refusal amid coronavirus spread

Amazon threatens workers in France with pay cut for exercising 'right...

Government warns retailer against penalising workers who are permitted by law to refuse to work when there is risk to...

19 March 2020 4:38 PM IST

Brussels warning comes less than a month after US officials said thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts had embarked on a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the virus.

Fake news about coronavirus being spread by Russia to worsen crisis in...

An internal EU document warned that pro-Kremlin media outlets were promoting disinformation to undermine trust in...

18 March 2020 10:09 PM IST

Pressure has mounted on Silicon Valley to use their expertise to fight the deadly virus, after roughly 50 scientists signed an open letter last week calling on them to act

Privacy concerns raised as Facebook, Google in talks with Washington...

The use of personal data is highly sensitive especially after 2011 when the NSA was found collecting phone records...

18 March 2020 8:44 PM IST

Filmmakers used RenderMan software in nearly all of the last 47 movies nominated for a visual effects Academy Award. The software was first used in Toy Story. (Photo | Flickr - )

Toy Story, Finding Nemo's lifelike graphics gets tech duo Turing Award...

The tech industry Nobel was given to Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull for their RenderMan' software that...

18 March 2020 8:19 PM IST