Google’s AI phone assistant Duplex is contacting businesses across the UK and asking them what their coronavirus business hours are. It is using the responses to update company listings shown on Google Search and Google Maps. The Duplex AI assistant can...
Mobile giant Samsung is donating 2,000 smartphones to the NHS, for staff to use in Nightingale hospitals. It will provide Galaxy XCover 4s phones, which are designed to be more robust and can be used while wearing gloves. Samsung said NHS...
Two leading universities are trying to develop apps that listen to users’ coughs and voices to predict whether they are infected with the coronavirus. But the two projects are taking different approaches to privacy. The Cambridge University effort seeks to keep...
Electric car-maker Tesla will reduce staff pay and put non-essential workers on furlough while the production of its vehicles is stopped due to coronavirus. Work at its factory in Fremont, California halted on 23 March. In a letter to staff, the...
The UK’s high-growth tech companies say they need help from the government to get through the coronavirus crisis – and at the moment they are not getting it. That was the message of a letter to the chancellor from 12 leaders...
Brazil’s Air Force plans to modernize the radar system defending the nation’s northern border and also monitoring the Amazon with a US system named “Condor Mk3,” manufacturer Raytheon announced in a press release on Tuesday WASHINGTON (mediazonz News / Sputnik –...
