Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Robot Dogs Are Here In Your Front Yard, US Police Already Using It! The US police have started using robot dogs Spot from Boston Dynamics. The Massachusetts Police is secretively testing these robocop dogs and the critics are worried. There’s no weapon being tested at this moment but documents do reveal some scary details. The document states the involvement of these firms: Ghost Robotics, iRobot, Endeavor, and Boston Dynamics. According to reports, the police is testing these robots since April 2019. Link. ___ #4…
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Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Paytm Raises $1 Billion, Led By T Rowe Price On $16 Billion Valuation Fearing the competition from the giants such as Google, Walmart, and Facebook, the Indian financial services provider Paytm has raised a billion dollars to expand its business. The funding round, dubbed as round G was led by the US-based asset manager T Rowe Price. It includes Ant Financials (contributing $400 M), SoftBank (contributing $200 million), and Discovery Capital. Up till now, Paytm has raised $ 3.3 billion in total. With a…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Uber May Breach Your Privacy! Plans To Record Audio Of Trips Uber may soon allow recording of audio during rides. The feature will first release in Brazil and Mexico. But the ride-hailing giant is planning to launch this feature in the United States as well. According to reports, this will breach the security and privacy of the riders. Uber, however, is saying that it will bolster the security of its app for both the driver and the passengers. Link. ___ #4 PayPal To Acquire…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Is Google’s Stadia A Mess? Publishers and gamers aren’t happy with the debut of Google’s game streaming service Stadia. In fact, many are furious with this game streaming platform. Some gamers have complained about not receiving the access code to Stadia, which was promised months ago. Plus the hardware is also in short supply here. Stadia is still missing out on several features including the inability to play 4k content on the web browser. Also, the launch of the gaming platform with a measly…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Want Some Air Protein? Startup’s New Way Of Creating Meat Product After the launch of plant-based meat product, here’s an even better way to create meat. A startup has recently announced that it has successfully tested a system that was previously designed by NASA to make protein from the air. You can use it to fill the protein demand of your body. It’s safe to use. However, the startup hasn’t revealed when it will be going public. Link. ___ #4 Snapchat Is Fact-Checked, Says…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 100Mbps To The Arctic, Kepler Achieves A Rare Feat Kepler, a startup has achieved what most big companies couldn’t do till now. It has connected the Arctic with a broadband speed of up to 100Mbps. Kepler is a satellite-based broadband connectivity provider. This is the first time that any ground unit in the Arctic is able to use such a high-speed network for any work. Link. ___ #4 Uber At Waymo’s Mercy For Self-Driving Tech? Uber has said that will need to license self-driving…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Zuckerberg VS Dorsey Jack Dorsey is poking fun at the new makeover of Facebook’s logo that capitalizes each word. Dorsey tweeted “twitter from TWITTER” to mock the change in the Facebook logo. Previously, Twitter in its annual announcement had said that it won’t allow any political ads on its platform. Jack Dorsey has said that they are different and in many cases better than Facebook when it comes to contentious topics. Link. ___ #4 Shopify Offers Email Marketing, Will You Use It? Shopify has…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Is TikTok Losing Sheen? TikTok is slowing down. Yes, you heard it right. The world’s highest-valued startup launched in 2017 has hit its upper limits of growth. TikTok had made a space for itself somewhere between Vine and YouTube. The target audience was teenagers and the global companies were worried about its rise. Especially Facebook, which launched its own knock-off recently trying to imitate TikTok’s success. Currently, TikTok has over 1.5 billion users and is now slowing down. Link. ___ #4 Skip Trump Jokes,…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Is Huawei Ban Coming To An End? Huawei ban is soon coming to an end as the United States commerce department is all set to loosen its ban on the mobile equipment maker from China. Already numerous US firms have applied for a special license to continue working with Huawei and the number has reached 26o now. The sheer number of firms wanting to do business with Huawei has made the ban irrelevant. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told in an interview to Bloomberg that “very shortly”…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 More Trouble For WeWork’s Ex CEO, Faces Pregnancy Discrimination Charges One of the former top aides of WeWork who has worked with the ex-CEO of WeWork Adam Neumann has accused him of discriminating her due to pregnancy. The aide has also accused other top leaders of the firm. Medina Bardhi has filed a federal lawsuit in this matter. She recounts how she was demoted and eventually fired from her job for going on leave due to her pregnancy. Link. ___ #4 Twitter To Ban…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Samsung Teases Square Folding Phone, Will It Click? The South Korean tech giant Samsung has teased a video of its upcoming square folding phone. This latest concept was introduced at the Samsung Technology Conference 2020 in the United States on Tuesday. Samsung is trying here its best to woo its disgruntled audience after its not so good launch of Galaxy fold phone. The new concept of the square folding phone will have its screen folded and protected, unlike the previous design. The initial design…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Google’s Unexpected Slump, Profits Dip 23% Google’s parent firm Alphabet has announced that it has suffered a dip of 23% in its profits due to high spending on research and development. According to the New York Times, this is a rare occurrence for the tech giant. Despite reporting a 20% increase in its revenue the firm still made loses. Alphabet’s stocks saw a 2% decline. Alphabet’s cash cow is the advertising revenue from Google and recently the firm is facing the competition heat from the likes…