More signs that Britain may have passed the worst of the second wave emerged today as Covid deaths in London appear to have started falling. And the symptom-tracking Covid Symptom Study estimates that the number of people developing Covid-19 has halved in a fortnight, now...
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Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with universal chat app
Beeper is a new universal chat app that’s an attempt to unify 15 different chat platforms into a single interface. The app is the work of a team that includes Eric Migicovsky, the CEO and founder of former smartwatch manufacturer Pebble, who announced its launch...
Revealed: Tory MPs and commentators who joined banned app Parler
At least 14 Conservative MPs, including several ministers, cabinet minister Michael Gove and a number of prominent Tory commentators joined Parler, the social media platform favoured by the far right that was forced offline last week for hosting threats of violence and racist slurs. Parler...
Symptom-tracking app says cases dropped 23% last week with 54,000 new infections each day
Britain announced another 55,761 coronavirus cases today and 1,280 deaths, both lower than this time last week, amid signs that the rate of infection is starting to come down. The positive test count is down 18 per cent from the 68,053 confirmed last Friday, while...
Elon Musk wants you to use Signal instead of Facebook. Here’s how the app works
The Signal app encrypts all of your messages to others on the platform. Roy Liu/Bloomberg/Getty Images Tech mogul Elon Musk — known as widely for slinging cars into the sun’s orbit as he is for advocating against COVID-19 safety measures — took to Twitter last...
Dating app Bumble restores political filter after suspected Capitol rioters found on app
Dating app Bumble has restored its political identification filter after temporarily removing it from the platform after users spotted suspected rioters involved in the storming of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on the app. Dating app Bumble temporarily removed its politics filter to...
Covid-19 patients can now report themselves via ‘MySejahtera’ app
KUALA LUMPUR: Covid-19 patients awaiting a call from the Ministry of Health (MOH) can now report themselves through the ‘MySejahtera’ application. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the application was being upgraded and enhanced to better manage the outbreak, as well as...
Messaging App Telegram Enjoys Huge Surge in Users
Telegram surpassed 500 million active users in January, according to a statement from Pavel Durov, the messaging app’s founder. Durov noted that 25 million people downloaded the platform in just 72 hours. The growth of Telegram’s user base comes as digital censorship from the world’s...
One third of Australian users have not updated Covidsafe app
Nearly one third of the seven million Australians who downloaded the Covidsafe app have not updated to the most recent version, as new figures show the government spend on the contact tracing app has risen to $14m. The Covidsafe contact tracing app relies on as...