The Aalto University, the University of Helsinki, and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have announced the establishment of InstituteQ -the Finnish Quantum Institute, dedicated to coordinating research, education, and i...
In the USA, the University of Chicago's Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Chicago Quantum Exchange research hub have announced the launch of Duality, an accelerator programme dedicated to startup companies ...
YouTube announced that it will soon release a metric named Violative View Rate (VVR) in its Community Guidelines Enforcement Report available quarterly. The metric VVR assists the platform to estimate the percentage of the views o...
A joint statement was signed by 29 organisations to call upon the governments of the Gulf countries to permanently lift the ban on all Voice Over IP (VoIP) platforms used for voice and video Internet calls. The banned VoIP service...
After the South African government announced its intention to use contact tracing as part of the COVID-19 management strategy, it had to publicly assure citizens it would not spy on them. According to Quartz, the government has an...
Partnering with the healthtech start-up Thryve, German's public health authority, the Robert Koch Institute launched a smartwatch app to monitor the spread of the Coronavirus. The app called Corona-Datenspende lets users lin...
An American citizen put corp.com domain for an auction hoping that Microsoft will buy it to protect its customers from security breaches. The company acquired the domain without disclosing the final price, reports ZDnet. ...
Lithuania's National Agency for Education (NSA) plans to distribute 35 000 tablets and laptops to schoolchildren from socially disadvantaged families. After the suspension of classes due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the ...
Washington State of the USA has adopted a Law Concerning the Use of Facial Recognition Services, which includes the most detailed regulations of facial recognition in the USA and potentially serves as a model for other states. The...
During its 20th plenary session, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) assigned concrete mandates to its expert subgroups to develop guidance on several aspects of data processing in the fight against COVID-19. This follows th...
According to Politico, the White House has reached out with several health technology companies in view to create a national coronavirus surveillance system to give the US government a near real-time perspective of where patients ...
The GSM Association (GSMA) launched The Mobile Economy Pacific Islands 2019 report at the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA) 23rd AGM and annual conference which underscores the potential of mobile technology in...