Uber Connect launched to help people deliver packages during lockdown
Uber India has launched a package delivery service so that people can send and receive packages within city limits, while maintaining social distancing. The…
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US adds new sanction on Chinese tech giant Huawei
The U.S. government imposed new restrictions on Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday, severely limiting its ability to use American technology to design and…
Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August
Google today announced that Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads. Examples include ads that mine cryptocurrency, are poorly programmed, or are…
DigitalOcean raises $50M more from Access Industries and a16z
Earlier today, DigitalOcean announced that it raised $50 million more from prior investors Access Industries and Andreessen Horowitz. The capital comes…
Nvidia launches chip aimed at data center economics
Semiconductor firm Nvidia on Thursday (May 14) announced a new chip that can be digitally split up to run several different programs on one physical chip, a…
Australia media group wants tech giants to pay $400m a year
A leading publisher called Thursday for Google and other tech giants to pay Australian news outlets some US$400 million a year under a mandatory code of…
Google Play launches Change the Game Design Challenge for students
Google Play has announced its Change the Game Design Challenge for students to submit ideas for original mobile games. Aude Gandon, global brand director at…
Microsoft to invest $1.5 bln in Italian cloud business
MILAN: Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would create its first datacentre region in Italy under a $1.5 billion investment plan as the U.S. company expands its…
Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies
Clearview AI – the web-scraping, faceprint-amassing biometrics company that’s being sued over collecting biometrics without informed consent – says it’s no…
New Zealand ‘open for business’ as Microsoft plans regional data center
Microsoft has announced plans to establish its first data center in the North Island of New Zealand, which will make it the tech giant’s 60th data center on…