By Chermaine Lee via BBC From a stuffy metro station in Paris, to a large shopping mall in
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iPhone 12 finally: excitement about 5G
Digital Market News (James Martin/CNET) Sorry to Samsung, Verizon, T-Mobile and everyone else in the mobile industry trying to
Zoom’s market value surges past Boeing, General Motors
From DW As the world ground to halt and people stayed home, Zoom’s video conferencing service boomed. Second-quarter
The batteries of the future: Sodium instead of lithium
Sodium-ion rechargeable batteries could soon be a cheaper and resource-saving alternative to current lithium-ion cells. Powerful prototypes and
Japan’s ‘flying car’ gets off ground, person aboard
by Yuri Kageyama from Techxplore The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving
Blind musician feels conductor’s movements
By Stephanie Bailey , video by Stephani Blendis for CNN When Kyungho Jeon was young, he dreamed of
Apple to open its first floating sphere shaped store
By Evan Sully for Business Insider Apple is opening its first-ever store that floats on water in Singapore.
750 Million Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are Being Released in Florida—Here’s Why
They won’t bite you, scientists say, and here’s why that’s important. By Korin Miller of Health Genetically engineered mosquitoes—750
Why plastic waste is an ideal building material
By Sibele Cestari for BBC Future Planet What if we turned the world’s growing wastelands of disused plastics
Smartphones can tell when you’re drunk by analyzing your walk
From Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs via Science Daily Your smartphone can tell when you’ve had
Apple is the first U.S. company to reach $2 trillion
Apple is the first U.S. company to reach $2 trillion in value, capping a staggering ascent that began
Robocalls back on the rise, smaller telecom carriers leave door open to major fraud, report says
The FTC reports robocall fraud swindled American consumers out of more than $38 million in 2019 By Julia Musto
HUBBLE TELESCOPE USES THE MOON AS A MIRROR TO STUDY EARTH
From Inverse by PASSANT RABIE On January 20-21, 2019, planet Earth came between the Sun and the Moon,
At-home Hologram machines, company offers
From Reuters, Wire Service Content By Rollo Ross for U.S. NEWS & World Report LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –
Don’t Stand So Close: Singapore Trials Automated Drones To Check
By Reuters, BY TOVA COHEN AND JOHN Geddie TEL AVIV/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Beware, Singaporeans standing too close, automated drones might
Facebook launches its new TikTok clone, Instagram Reels
By MAE ANDERSON, TALI ARBEL and BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP News Facebook’s Instagram is officially launching its answer to
EU Regulators Investigating Google’s Plan to Buy Fitbit
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators opened an in-depth investigation Tuesday into Google’s plan to buy fitness tracking
Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91
The co-creator of the computer mouse, William English, has died aged 91. The engineer and inventor was born