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Aussie Broadband signs up about 2,300 users for its gigabit NBN plan
As on 2nd June, Aussie Broadband has signed up close to 2,300 customers for its new gigabit NBN plan. Last week on Friday, Aussie Broadband launched NBN Co’s up to 1000/50 MBPS residential service at the price of $149 per month. The Australian telecommunications company...
Uber tests its car rental service ‘Uber Rent’ in Australia
Introduction On June 2nd, Uber announced that it will be trialling its world-first car rental service in Australia. The service is called Uber Rent and has been launched in association with a car rental company CarTrawler. Using Uber Rent will allow its users to hire...
SpaceX successfully launches Crew Dragon with NASA Astronauts into orbit
In a historic event, NASA Astronauts Robert Behnken & Douglas Hurley were launched into orbit in a spacecraft made by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX on Saturday, May 30th. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 is an end-to-end test flight mission that will validate the SpaceX crew transportation system....
Paid Zoom video call users to get strong encryption
Zoom video conferencing platform to add strong encryption for calls for its paid customers. The move was discussed on a call with the civil liberties groups and child-sex abuse fighters on Thursday, 28th May 2020. Alex Stamos, Zoom security consultant, confirmed the news on Friday,...
Mobile tower in Australia vandalized, a possible 5G conspiracy?
A telecommunications tower in Melbourne, Australia caught fire and the police think this could be related to the 5G conspiracy. There is a popular (and false) belief that the spread of COVID-19 has something to do with the fifth-generation wireless telecommunication towers. This 5g conspiracy...
YouTube introduces ‘Video Chapters’ to make navigation easier
Youtube rolls out its new feature called ‘Video Chapters’ that will help viewers navigate better through long-form videos. The new feature will use timestamps that creators can apply to their YouTube videos. Video Chapters will allow viewers to conveniently jump to parts of the video...
What tech companies are doing to control the spread of fake news
The term “fake news” first gained popularity around the 2016 presidential elections, and since then politicians have not stopped talking about it. However, misinformation isn’t just a political issue. False news is also highly financially motivated. Spammers usually communicate using names of established brands to...
NASA & SpaceX give Crew Dragon a ‘GO’ for launch
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket are now ready to fly with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. The spacecraft gets a ‘go’ from both NASA and SpaceX, to take a trip to the International Space Station after officially passing the final...
Amazon announces its second solar farm in Australia
According to Geoscience Australia, the country receives about 58 million PJ (Petajules) of solar radiation every year. This is approximately 10,000 times more than its total energy consumption. To use this as an opportunity to focus on sustainable development goals, e-commerce giant Amazon has decided...
FedEx & Microsoft join forces to transform commerce through FedEx Surround
Introduction FedEx and Microsoft have joined hands and entered a new multi-year collaboration on May 18th, 2020. This partnership will help ‘transform commerce’ by combining the global digital and logistics network of FedEx and intelligent cloud by Microsoft. The first service from the companies, FedEx...
