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Facebook to let most employees work from home till year-end 08 May 2020 - 02:41 pm

San Francisco - Facebook will let most of its workforce stay home and work through the end of this year and plans to...

Nintendo’s switch shines after animal crossing smashes records 07 May 2020 - 02:43 pm

Nintendo Co. Switch sold better than expected after global home confinement helped Animal Crossing become the console’s fastest-selling title. The Kyoto-based game maker’s...

Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth, hints of more 06 May 2020 - 05:08 pm

Meet your new but shy galactic neighbor: A black hole left over from the death of a fleeting young star. European astronomers have...

Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps 05 May 2020 - 02:31 pm

Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new...

Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab 04 May 2020 - 05:35 pm

Scientists created a monoclonal antibody that can defeat the new coronavirus in the lab, an early but promising step in efforts to find...

How work from home may not be as good to planet as thought 04 May 2020 - 03:10 pm

London - A mass move to working-from-home accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic might not be beneficial to Mother Earth as energy savings were...

Robots and cameras: China's sci-fi quarantine watch 03 May 2020 - 10:53 am

Beijing: Robots delivering meals, ghostly figures in hazmat suits and cameras pointed at front doors: China's methods to enforce coronavirus quarantines have looked...

4,100 women take on Oracle over unequal pay in class-action lawsuit 02 May 2020 - 06:37 pm

San Francisco: Over 4,000 former and current women employees have accused Cloud giant Oracle of unequal pay in a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit....

Twitter offers data to researchers studying virus 30 Apr 2020 - 01:58 pm

San Francisco - Twitter said Wednesday it would allow researchers to access data on real-time conversations about the coronavirus pandemic to help deepen...

Amazon's foreign websites named in U.S. piracy and counterfeiting report 29 Apr 2020 - 07:34 pm

WASHINGTON: Several of Amazon.com Inc's foreign websites have been added to the U.S. trade regulator's "Notorious Markets" report on marketplaces known for counterfeiting...

Pentagon releases 'UFO' videos taken by US Navy pilots 29 Apr 2020 - 05:06 pm

Washington: The Pentagon has officially released three videos taken by US Navy pilots showing mid-air encounters with what appear to be UFOs. The...

Google makes Meet video conferencing free to all users, challenging Zoom 29 Apr 2020 - 01:00 pm

OAKLAND, California: Alphabet Inc's Google on Wednesday said any user will soon be able to host free video conferences on Meet, turning its...

Rare pink dolphins come out to play off Thai island 28 Apr 2020 - 06:02 pm

KOH PHA NGAN, Thailand: Fishermen in the Gulf of Thailand filmed a rare encounter with pink dolphins, which scientists say are becoming bolder...

WhatsApp see 70% drop in frequently forwarded messages with new limit 27 Apr 2020 - 02:24 pm

New Delhi - Facebook-owned WhatsApp which earlier thin month introduced a limit on frequently forwarded messages to one chat at a time has...

Lockdown inspires Italian boy to create coronavirus video game 26 Apr 2020 - 04:57 pm

Milan: While most nine-year-olds have been battling during lockdown with the vagaries of home schooling, Lupo Daturi has been waging war on COVID-19...