Month: February 2020
New Apple Watch study wants to save lives by detecting strokes
The Apple Watch is already an accomplished health and fitness device, but a new study is seeking to explore whether it is capable of going a step further and detecting signs of a stroke. The Heartline Study, which also makes use of iPhones, sees Apple partner up with Johnson &…
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TIM uses quantum computing to optimise 4G, 5G
Italy’s TIM has become the first European mobile operator to use quantum computing on its network, using the technology to optimise its radio cell planning. Whereas classical computing architectures store information in binary (1 or 0) bits, quantum computing uses subatomic particles’ ability to exist in multiple states at the…
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‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ author Steven Levy on how the company compares to Apple and Google
People kept having the idea for Facebook long before Facebook ever came around. First there was sixdegrees; then there was Friendster; then there was MySpace. On college campuses like Stanford, people were digitizing their printed facebooks as early as 1999. When Mark Zuckerberg was in high school at Exeter, a…
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When it comes to Disney Plus UK, The Simpsons could be a dealbreaker
Depending on whether you grew up with Sky or without Sky, your relationship with The Simpsons in the UK will be very different. In September 1990, Sky One started showing The Simpsons every day, and it remains a cornerstone of the channel’s programming line-up 30 years later. If you didn’t…
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Facebook confirms ban on misleading coronavirus ads
Facebook is banning ads that promise to cure, prevent, or otherwise incite panic around COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, the company has confirmed in a statement given to Business Insider. The company added that it has similar policies for its Marketplace platform where Facebook users can buy…
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WhatsApp dark mode is coming to desktop, and you can get an early look
WhatsApp dark mode will soon be coming to desktop devices according to recently discovered code for the web-based version of the messaging app. The new color scheme was discovered by developer Mahesh B Wijerathna, who published his findings on Twitter, together with screengrabs demonstrating how the design will look once…
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