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WHO Launching an App to Fight Fake News and Misinformation As the world governments try to stop the current pandemic, WHO is trying to prevent the spread of misinformation. In an effort to battle the spread of misinformation through social media, the WHO is preparing to launch an official app for Android, iOS and the web. The COVID-19 causing Coronavirus is still at large around the world and the entire world is trying to fight this epidemic....

Apple Fined $1.2 Billion for Illegal Competitive Practices in France The Competition Agency of France, L’Autorité de la concurrence, has fined Apple with a massive amount of 1.1 billion Euros (~1.23 billion). The report came from the official website of the authorities. It stated that the Cupertino-based tech giant will have to pay the fine because of fixing prices of some of their products and preventing competition between two of its retailers in the French market....

Coronavirus Patient’s Life Saved by 3D Printed Valves in Italy While the Novel Coronavirus grips Italy in quarantine, the number of patients in the country continues to rise. According to a recent report, the death toll in Italy has risen to over 2500. The country is struggling to provide medical assistance to the patients. In a similar situation last week, a hospital in the country ran out of a valve that is needed for the breathing equipment to work....

Firefighters Can Now “C-Thru” Heavy Smoke in a Fire-Stricken Enviroment Firefighters are some of the few individuals who run towards a fire instead of running away from it. Now, getting inside a fire-stricken building is tough, but what comes next is the real test. Inside a burning building, most of the human senses stop working and seeing through the smoke and all the debris becomes an unusually difficult task. However, with recent developments in tech, future firefighters will be able to see through the smoke using a tool called C-Thru....

Government-Sponsored Hacking Groups Using COVID-19 Emails to Infiltrate Targets Hacking groups have always used a global crisis to lure users and gain access to their personal information. Now, as the fear of the Novel Coronavirus continues to rise, many government-sponsored attacks have been detected by various cybersecurity organisations. The countries involved in these types of attacks include China, North Korea and Russia. Just a few weeks ago, we sawhackers using COVID-19 related emails to infiltrate targets....

Here’s a New Look at the Apple CarKey UI Apple has been rumoured to be working on car technology for a long time now. We have only heard about it but we haven’t seen anything from the Cupertino-based tech giant. Now as per previous rumours and reports, we came to know that BMW will be integrating Apple’s upcoming CarKey API in their future cars and now we have real, hard evidence confirming it....

How the LiDAR Sensor in the New iPad Can Be a Game-Changer for AR Apple has leaned towards Augmented Reality (AR) for a long time. The company started emphasizing on AR with the launch of their ARKit back in 2017. Since then, the Cupertino-based tech giant has been experimenting with AR and developing it with each passing year. However, this year, the company launched itslatest iPad Prothat comes equipped with a hardware component that specifically enhances the AR capabilities of the mobile device....