In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie The Matrix, scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to replace batteries. Echoing world-domineering robots’ use of enslaved humans in the 1999 cyberpunk movie, US researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created an environmentally-friendly gadget that
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said social-media services like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube need clearer laws and rules to govern whether controversial accounts, like former US President Donald Trump’s, have a place on their services, rather than being asked to make free-speech decisions themselves. “Unilateral action by individual companies in democracies like ours is
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Global notebook shipments grew 54 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to a market research firm report. The growth came on the back of increased adoption of remote working and e-learning across major markets worldwide fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report. It said that gaming and remote work drove
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Zynga on Wednesday forecast annual net bookings above Wall Street estimates, betting on the launch of its upcoming FarmVille game and strong in-game spending in its existing titles such as Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells. The company’s shares rose nearly 3 percent in extended trading. Zynga said it expects full-year net bookings – an indicator
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Apple has launched a battery replacement programme for 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro models that aren’t charging past one percent. The Cupertino company said that the issue affected “a very small number of customers”, though it hasn’t specified the reason behind the charging problem. In addition to the battery replacement programme, Apple has released macOS
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama have begun voting on whether to form the first American union at the e-commerce giant, an effort that could pave the way for further unionisation in the United States at one of the world’s most powerful companies. Amazon is the second-largest employer in the US with an 800,000-strong
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