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Starlink’s Next Leap: Turning Orbit Into a Cell Network
Posted in Business, Hardware, Online, Science on 3rd Oct, 2025
by Alexander Muller
The Direct-to-Cell constellation could mark the biggest leap in connectivity since the rise of mobile networks themselves, erasing dead zones and making satellite coverage a seamless part of everyday life.
Pfizer Pays Almost $120 Million For App That Claims to Detect COVID From A Cough
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller
Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analysing the sound of a cough.
Apple and Google say 25 states and territories have explored using COVID-19 contact tracing apps
Posted in Software on 6th Sep, 2020
by Alex Muller
Exposure Notifications Express capabilities are being introduced today as part of an iOS update and later this month for Android users.
Google Assistant passes 500 million users, will get longform reading and deeper smart home integration in 2020
Posted in Business, Online, Software on 9th Jan, 2020
by Alex Muller
Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users, and today Google is previewing features on the way in 2020 like a new voice that reads articles and web pages aloud to users with a more natural and humanlike voice.
In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan
Posted in Business on 14th Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller
Despite a outcry on Chinese social media, it seems unlikely that critics will prove successful in pushing against it/