Month: May 2020
Tablet sales plummet despite remote working rise
While the demand for laptops and computers has grown amid companies’ efforts to set up remote working during the coronavirus lockdown, tablet sales continue to decline. New figures from analyst firm IDC found that even though there was a brief pandemic-driven rise in the demand for tablet PCs, supply chain…
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UK joins COVID-19 High Performance Computing consortium
The UK has joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, an international collaborative effort to find treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19 by using supercomputers. The UK’s entry adds over 20 petaflops of high-performance computing (HPC) capability to the effort. While one supercomputer with eight petaflops can perform a million…
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Podcast: Why do people think 5G makes them sick?
No, 5G didn’t start the coronavirus pandemic. But that’s not stopping the current wave of conspiracy theories and anti-5G protests. And despite the science saying otherwise, plenty of people are convinced that 5G is actually hurting them. To figure o… Source
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Which tech learnings should we keep from lockdown?
At the beginning of the year, who would have thought it was possible to transition an entire company to work remotely? We now know this is not only possible, but effective. The UK government is even exploring whether the right to work from home could be enshrined in law, so…
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Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes
When Cisco bought AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion just before the IPO, the company sent a clear signal it wanted to move beyond its pure network hardware roots into the software monitoring side of the equation. Yesterday afternoon the company announced it intends to buy another monitoring company, this…
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Twitter Placed A Warning Label On A Second Trump Tweet That Glorified Violence Against Minneapolis Protestors
Pool / Getty Images Twitter placed an early Friday tweet from President Donald Trump about the Minneapolis protests behind a warning label after deeming that it violated the company’s rules about glorifying violence. The social network did not remove the tweet, allowing users to click through an interstitial link to…
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