Innovation & Tools
Ericsson: Transfer to 5G will accelerate because of COVID-19 pandemic - 06/03/2020
Refuse of 2G and 3G mobile communications technologies will accelerate after the COVID-19 pandemic. Operators will transfer data and voice calls to LTE networks and begin sharing frequencies for 4G and 5G technologies, Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson predicts. “Now operators are forced to rethink their strategies - 2G and 3G technologies will lose relevance earlier than predicted....
Boeing resumes production of 737 MAX - 05/29/2020
Boeing re-launched production of 737 MAX liners. Their flights, and then production were suspended after two disasters, the victims of which were 346 people. Boeing resumed production of 737 MAX aircraft at a plant in Renton, Wash., reads the company’s. The aircraft will be produced at a slow pace, since the company must apply more than a dozen innovations to improve the safety of employees and...
App Annie, IDC note jump in mobile games downloads - 05/28/2020
COVID-19 pandemic boosted demand for mobile games. According to analysts at App Annie and IDC, in March number of downloads jumped by 35% compared to January. Sometimes the figure rose to record 1.2 billion. The long-term trend continued in the first quarter as mobile games are increasingly overtaking PC and console games in terms of downloads and expenses. In the first quarter of this year, user...
Facebook renames Calibra cryptocurrency wallet to Novi - 05/27/2020
The company aims to distance from the Libra project, TechCrunch notes. Facebook has changed the name of its digital wallet Calibra to Novi. It will be managed by an independent sunsidiary of the social network, Novi Financial. Novi is designed to store and exchange digital currency, in particular, the Libra cryptocurrency. The name comes from the Latin words novus (new) and via (path), the...
Virgin Orbit's first rocket launch test failed - 05/26/2020
On Monday, American Virgin Orbit failed to launch its LauncherOne from an airplane into orbit, the company said. "We confirmed a regular discharge from the aircraft. However, the test soon stopped at the beginning of the flight. Cosmic Girl plane and our flight crew are safe and returning to base," the report said. There are no details of the incident. Meanwhile, Virgin Orbit reported problems...
VR technologies: Keep growing but stay niche anyway - 05/19/2020
According to Technavio, the market for XR technology (extended reality, an umbrella term that includes virtual (VR), augmented (AR) and mixed reality (MR) will grow to $ 177 billion by 2024. This optimistic forecast, made at the beginning April, may not fully take into account the boom in investment in such projects caused by the pandemic. However, existing gadgets and services are far from the...
Asian banking and legal industries are shifting to Internet - 05/15/2020
Since many companies continue to operate under the quarantine and remote work conditions, some professional tools that previously required personal presence and paper documents become digital. This is particularly noticeable in Asia - now companies receive loans, open accounts and go to court via the Internet. During the pandemic, not only Zoom and other services for video conferencing and remote...
Study: Up to 3.5B people will live in unbearable heat by 2070 - 05/11/2020
With the current rate of global warming and population growth, up to a third of humanity will live in conditions similar to the Sahara climate in 50 years. These are very fast climatic changes in a very short period of time. The consequences can be disastrous. For millennia, people have been choosing regions that are comfortable or at least relatively suitable for them in terms of climate. But...
Experts: DDoS attacks are on the rise - 05/08/2020
Against the backdrop of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the number of DDoS attacks in the world in the first quarter increased by 80% compared to the same period in 2019 and doubled compared to the fourth quarter. Duration of the attacks increased as well, according to a study by Kaspersky Lab. “Since the beginning of 2020, due to the coronavirus epidemic COVID-2019, life has almost completely...
Kind of seasonal flu: Chinese scientists believe it's impossible to destroy COVID-19 - 04/29/2020
The new coronavirus cannot be completely eradicated, as happened with SARS, Chinese scientists say. In their opinion, COVID-19 is likely to become a seasonal disease, such as the flu. Chinese scientists believe that the new coronavirus, because of which more than 211,000 people already died worldwide, will not be completely eradicated, as happened with SARS, Bloomberg writes. “Most likely, it...
