Month: March 2020
UAE TRA adds new communication tools to its growing list to support remote work
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the UAE has added new communication tools to support remote working and learning. The new tools, to be offered in coordination with the telecom operators – Etisalat and Du – until further notice are Google Hangouts Meet, Cisco Webex, Avaya Spaces, BlueJeans and Slack.…
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Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook hits shelves April 6th
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Chromebook finally has an official release date. You’ll be able to buy it at Samsung and Best Buy next Monday, April 6th, starting at $999. The device comes in Mercury Gray, or the bolder Fiesta Red that looks bright orange in some settings. It’s the first Chromebook…
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This is probably the best value Windows 10 PC on the planet right now
With Windows 10 now well established as the world’s most popular desktop operating system, getting your own PC up to speed has never been easier and one of the best deals we’ve seen on a low-cost PC is one called the AP34 Pro from Beelink, one that we sadly, have…
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HQ Trivia is back less than two months after the app was shut down
HQ Trivia is being resurrected just a little over one month after co-founder Rus Yusupov announced that the app was shutting down. A push notification went out to HQ Trivia players letting them know a new game will go live tonight at 9PM ET. The notification was followed by a…
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After backlash, Zoom ditches snooping Facebook code from iOS app
Following the revelation by Motherboard on Friday (March 27) that video calling platform Zoom was sharing user information with Facebook via its iOS app, the popular video conferencing service has rolled out an update for iOS users. Zoom has removed the data-sharing code from the app, telling Motherboard in a…
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The Station: Bird and Lime layoffs, pivots in a COVID-19 era and a $2.2 trillion deal
Hello folks, welcome back (or hi for the first time) to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to the all the ways people and packages move around this world. I’m your host, Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I also have started to publish a shorter version of the…
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