In a letter to the U.S. Congress, International Business Machines Corp’s new Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said, it will no longer offer facial recognition or analysis software; IBM is also calling for efforts to pursue justice and racial equity. IBM will stop offering facial recognition software and opposes any use of the technology for…
Late on Monday, the U.S. unit of China Telecom Corp pleaded with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to not revoke the company’s authorization to provide international telecommunications services in the United States. The development comes in the wake of the U.S. Justice Department along with other agencies asking the FCC in April to revoke the…
A customer of Amazon who was angry as he criticized the company’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement was given a befitting reply by the company’s CEO Jeff Bezos trough an e-mail. In an Instagram post late Sunday, Bezos described the customer’s email as “sickening” and added that the individual was just the kind…
After a dispute with Amazon over an e-book on the novel coronavirus, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has not called for the “break up” of he United States based tech giant and the largest e-commerce company of the world Amazon. In a recent move, Amazon’s Kindle publishing division rejected a book on the coronavirus pandemic by…
Facebook Inc said that it will start labeling media organizations that are that are state controlled by governments such as in Russia, China and other countries and will start blocking any advertisements from these media outlets that are targeted at users of the largest social media platform n eh United States later this year. According…
Following agreements with a number of entities, which includes two health organisations backed by Bill and Melinda Gates, pharma giant AstraZeneca has said that it has now managed to double its manufacturing capacity for its potential Covid-19 vaccine to 2 billion doses. The company had said last week that its capacity of manufacturing the vaccine…
In a significant development, France and Germany have thrown their weight behind plans to create a cloud computing ecosystem aimed at reducing Europe’s dependence on established tech giants including Google, Microsoft and Amazon. The project, dubbed Gaia-X, aims to establish common standards for storing and processing data on servers that are sited locally and comply…
On Friday, the government of Singapore stated, it plans on soon launching a wearable device which will enable the contact tracing for the coronavirus which emerged in Wuhan, China. On successful testing, it will distribute it to all of 5.7 million residents. Like India’s Aarogya Setu app, Singapore has also developed a smartphone app to…
On Thursday, Australian graphite explorer EcoGraf Ltd stated, it has signed an agreement with German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp AG for the supply of graphite products that are used in making batteries. EcoGraf’s supply agreement is with Thyssenkrupp Materials Trading GmbH, a unit of Thyssenkrupp AG. In a statement EcoGraf said, Thyssenkrupp Materials Trading GmbH would…
In a development that marks a turning of the tide, two of Canada’s largest telecoms companies have opted to team up with Ericsson and Nokia Oyj to build their 5G telecoms networks and ditching Huawei Technologies for the project. Telus Corp and Bell Canada have eschewed Huawei. According to analysts, the development will help the…
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