A Swiss startup called HMCARE, spun out of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, has raised a million Swiss Francs (equivalent to about $105 million) to commercialize its transparent and relatively eco-friendly surgical masks. The founders were inspired by healthcare workers in the 2015 Ebola […]
Day: June 10, 2020
Loot Boxes May Soon Be Ruled Gambling In the UK
UK media watchdogs are calling for a new investigation to see if loot boxes are gambling and if games with "surprise mechanics" should be restricted. by …
You no longer need to hack Windows to install Teams backgrounds
Microsoft Teams users will now be able to upload their own custom background images as Microsoft has released a new update to its video conferencing software. The software giant already gave meeting participants a way to hide what’s behind them in the form of background […]
IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage
The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody’s favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme. It looks like the problems started around 2:30pm PT and spread from there. Best we […]