Tag: Tech

At least three recruiters approach Singapore-based software engineer Xiao Yuguang every day with job offers.

WhatsApp will force users to agree to its new privacy policy within the next month, or else lose access to the app.

Facebook Pages, which is used by celebrities, businesses, politicians and other public figures to interact with their fans and customers, will get a makeover.

Streaming a television show in standard definition can shave a little off your carbon emissions, a report from scientists at the UK's Royal Society says.

India banned 43 mobile applications on Tuesday including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s e-commerce app Aliexpress in a new wave of web sanctions targeted at China with whom it has engaged in a months-long standoff at a Himalayan border site.

September 8 (CNet) - If you have "discover an alien civilization" on your 2020 bingo card, you're going to have to wait a little longer to cross it off. A new large-scale survey of the sky looked into the dark forest of the cosmos, examining over 10 million stars, but failed to turn up any evidence of alien technologies. The ...

May 1 (TheStraitsTimes) - Ten minutes. That is all it takes for South Korea to track the travel history of a coronavirus patient, using a new system that analyses the person's credit card transactions and mobile phone location records. A manual epidemiological survey would have taken 24 hours to complete. The Covid-19 Smart Management System (SMS), however, can instantly map ...

Feb 13 (Reuters Health) - Immersion in virtual reality may relieve some of the pain of contractions before childbirth, a small study suggests. In a half-hour test among 40 hospitalized women in labor, those who used VR headsets that provided relaxing scenes and messages reported pain reductions compared with those who didn’t get headsets, researchers said in a presentation at ...

Colombo, Feb 6th (Gamer.lk) - Gamer.LK’s Mobitel Esports Premier League, the largest PUBG Mobile tournament in Sri Lanka with Rs. 1,000,000 in prize money reached 300 squads participating at the close of registration last night. Registration for the tournament was open from 22nd January to 5th February 2020. The number of participating players is a record for Sri Lankan Esports in ...

Feb 4th (Mashable) - Sometimes, a system as sophisticated as Google Maps can be tricked in the simplest of ways. This was recently proved by artist Simon Weckert, who hauled around 99 smartphones in a handcart, thus generating a traffic jam on Google Maps, which falsely registered this activity as a bunch of cars being around the same location. In ...