SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday tok say im company Starlink satellite broadband service dey available in Ukraine. Musk add say SpaceX dey send more terminals to di Eastern European kontri wia internet dey disrupted due to di Russian invasion. Internet connectivity in Ukraine don dey affected by Russian invasion, particularly in southern and eastern parts.
U.S. considering cyberattacks to disrupt Russia's ability to sustain military operations in Ukraine. Among options: disrupting internet connectivity across Russia, shutting off electric power, tampering with railroad switches. Officials are debating legal authorities under which the attacks would take place.
Apple became the first big tech corporation to open a corporate office in the country. Russia issued new requirements for foreign Internet companies with a daily audience of more than 500,000 users. Spotify is also reportedly working on opening a new Russian branch to respect Russia’s demands.
The SEC is investigating whether Elon Musk and his brother violated insider-trading rules. The investigation began last year after Kimbal Musk sold shares of Tesla valued at $108 million. The Tesla chief polled Twitter users asking whether he should unload 10% of his stake.
In January 2021, Tencent announced the launch of its carbon neutrality plan. The internet company is one of the first leading internet companies in China to launch such an initiative. It is promoting its achievement of “net zero emissions” by 2030 through a series of measures including technological and management innovation.
Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 taskbar for tablets. The new tablet taskbar will have a smaller collapsed state that only shows critical information. The Start button, search, and app icons will also be hidden. Microsoft is also tweaking how widgets work in Windows 11 soon.
Nearly $400,000 in bitcoin was donated to a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization in a 12-hour period Thursday. The donations capitalizes on a trend of hundreds of thousands of dollars being donated to Ukrainian NGOs. Activists have used the crypto to fund military equipment, medical supplies, and drones.
Kyndryl, the IBM managed services business spin-off, has inked a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services. The partnership will bring industry-focused cloud services to customers. Kyndyl projects that more than 10,000 of its employees will gain more AWS skills by the end of the year.
Clubhouse announced in-room chat Thursday, adding a text chat feature into its voice rooms that’s akin to what people might see on YouTube or Twitch, an optional feature that anyone running a conversation on Clubhouse can toggle the option on when they kick off a room.
World Health Organisation(WHO) set up a hub in Seoul to train countries to make vaccines. The hub will train World Health Organization has set up a hub in South Korea to train low- and middle-income countries to produce their own vaccines and therapies. The new hub will provide workforce training to all countries wishing to produce products such as vaccines, insulin, monoclonal antibodies. The WHO is expanding its COVID-19 vaccine project to a further five nations.
A new leak shows what a Pixel 7 Pro version of the Google Pixel 6 could look like. The phone is expected to run on Google's Tensor chip, which will enhance its machine-learning capabilities. It's likely to launch in October, but there are no credible rumors about a release date.