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YouTube is making money by allowing ads to run on videos that promote fake COVID-19 treatments during the coronavirus crisis, a new report says. The Google-owned video streaming site is running ads on videos that promote sham remedies like herbs and smoothies for the deadly illness, non-profit research initiative the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) claims. … Read more
Reese Witherspoon is giving away 250 dresses from her Draper James collection to teachers in the US amid the COVID-19 pandemic By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com Published: 14:40 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 14:40 BST, 3 April 2020 Reese Witherspoon is giving away 250 dresses from her Draper James collection to teachers in the … Read more
Google cancels its yearly tradition of posting an April Fools’ Day joke ‘out of respect for all those fighting the COVID-19 pandemic’ Google skipped its tradition of posting an elaborate April Fools’ Day joke The decision was made by the company’s chief marketing officer The company says it wants to show respect to people working … Read more
Apple will kill off the Android version of the Dark Sky weather predicting app after purchasing the company for an undisclosed amount. While there will be no change to the iOS version of the app, the Android version is no longer available to download and will be shutting down on July 1. Dark Sky for … Read more
The lockdown zoo: Families enduring ‘stay indoors’ order are using 3D phone app to bring array of exotic beasts to life in their homes Families under lockdown are using an augmented reality feature from Google to bring exotic beasts to homes Using Google Chrome on your phone, search for the creature you want by typing … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Google launches ‘SOS Alert’ for coronavirus in search results to provide users with tips and information from the World Health Organisation on how to stay safe Google partners with WHO to make coronavirus information easily accessible SOS Alert prioritises WHO info on the virus when users search ‘coronavirus’ The feature, launched in 2017, gives uses reputable info … Read more
Most of the US is under lockdown to help limit the spread of the coronavirus, resulting in less human activity outside and dramatically decreasing nitrogen dioxide levels by an ‘unprecedented’ amount. A new map, created by Earther, highlights the dramatic drop using data from a European Space Agency satellite and shows snapshots of the country … Read more
AI speech recognition systems from five major tech companies are biased toward people of color, as they make twice as many errors transcribing speech from black people than they do from whites, study reveals Study found systems from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and IBM are biased Fed technologies some 2,000 speech samples from blacks and … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more