Tencent helps Chinese students skip prohibitively low speeds for school websites overseas
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students enrolled in overseas schools are stranded as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt life and airlines worldwide. Learning at home in China, they all face one challenge: Their school websites and other academic resources load excruciatingly slowly because all web traffic has to pass through the country’s censorship apparatus …
WhatsApp flip-flops on privacy policy threats, again WhatsApp Logo
Continuing the confusion on its new Privacy Policy, WhatsApp has announced a reversal of its stance, saying that it won’t limit functionality for users who don’t accept the new terms, at least for now. WhatsApp’s new Privacy Policy, which has drawn a lot of criticism from users across the world for sharing data with its …
Xiaomi says it can fully charge a phone in eight minutes
In the saturated world of smartphones, charging speeds have become another way for manufacturers to stand out from the crowd. Records have been smashed and milestones achieved by companies jostling for attention. Today, China’s Xiaomi has put its new fast charging system to the test and beaten world records in wired and wireless charging in …
How to Game on a PC When You Can’t Find a Graphics Card
The GPU shortage keeps getting worse, thanks to surging demand from gamers and cryptocurrency miners, alongside a host of other factors. Prices continue to skyrocket to satirical levels, and Nvidia says the shortage will likely last through all of 2021—which means you may not get that upgrade until next year at the earliest. That’s a …
Maple Leafs pressure adds to Canadiens’ betting value
Listen Live to VSiN's sports betting shows. Hockey fans in Montreal were hoping for a storybook ending to Saturday's Game 6 and they got exactly that. It …
SVB-led $100M investment makes Chipper Cash Africa’s ‘most valuable startup’
Fintech in Africa is a goldmine. Investors are betting big on startups offering a plethora of services from payments and lending to neobanks, remittances and cross-border transfers, and rightfully so. Each of these services solves unique sets of challenges. For cross-border payments, it’s the outrageous rates and regulatory hassles involved with completing transactions from one African …
Joining Up The Dots: Amazon Sidewalk Tech Companies
IMAGE: ASSOCIATED PRESS Amazon has announced that as of June 8, all the company’s devices (Echo home assistants, Ring cameras, etc.) in the United States will automatically connect with each other, forming a vast wireless mesh network via Bluetooth and radio signals in the 900MHz band, to create Amazon Sidewalk, its IoT service provider. The …
Bitcoin miners: China’s cryptocurrency crackdown pushes companies overseas
Large bitcoin mining companies are looking at moving to North America and Central Asia after taking advantage of cheap electricity in China; Beijing … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Google accused of hiding privacy settings from smartphone users Privacy
Google not only made it difficult for smartphone users to keep their location data private, but that it was a conscious decision that came down the company’s hierarchy, a set of unredacted internal Google correspondence has appeared to show. According to Business Insider, the documents were filed as part of a lawsuit brought by Arizona’s …