Google is introducing a new virtual keyboard that lets the visually impaired type messages and emails without clunky additional hardware. The 'Talkback braille keyboard' as Google calls it is a new feature on Android that turns a user's smartphone into a 'TalkBack braille keyboard is a new virtual braille keyboard integrated directly
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The events of 2020 will surely be a catalyst for cloud adoption – if one were really needed. From collaboration tools to virtual learning, cloud-based applications are being used to buoy businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the crisis has underscored the need for businesses to not only digitize workflows but
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Right now, the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who managed to nail down working from home, and those who still struggle with it. Let’s face it. Working from home has been imposed on most of us with a vengeance. During this pandemic period, it is mandatory to flatten
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All cell towers emit Radio Frequency (RF) Radiation. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed scientific studies from around the world that have linked this “non-ionizing” form of electromagnetic radiation to things like cancer, DNA damage (especially in infants and fetuses), and infertility. And Kevin Mottus of the US Brain
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Jumia, Africa’s leading eCommerce platform has announced the implementation of ‘contactless’ delivery for prepaid packages on the platform. The company is taking additional measures to keep consumers, delivery agents and partners safe in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. To drive the initiative, the ‘contactless safe delivery’ option has been implemented on
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China’s internet giant Tencent Holdings has launched a new video conferencing app in an attempt to penetrate and compete with major players in the international market. VooV Meeting, the international spin-off of the company’s homegrown Tencent Meeting app, has already been rolled out in over 100 countries and regions, including Malaysia,
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The number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in recent weeks has forced companies in Africa to ask their workers to work remotely. Besides companies, governments have also been asking workers to work from home and use video conferencing for meetings. In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, telcos in different African countries
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Apple has dropped its two-per-customer limit on online iPhone sales as the coronavirus pandemic has forced it to close its stores worldwide. In a policy aimed at curbing the grey market for iPhones, Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple had previously limited customers to ordering only a pair of iPhones at a time. But
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency of the United Nations, has announced the launch of a ‘global platform’ to help protect telecommunication networks under strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao said in a statement that the Global Network Resiliency Platform will assist governments and the private
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The coronavirus pandemic forcing workers and students to stay at home is a “stress test” for the internet — and there’ll be “cascading failures” fixed “on the fly,” according to a Harvard computer science expert and teacher. In an interview posted on Techxplore, tech industry veteran and Harvard computer science professor Jim
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