Technologie

Hudson Lockett / Financial Times: Tencent raises $6B in a bond sale in Asia, the largest dollar-denominated bond sale by a Chinese company this year  —  Companies hungry for dollar funds to see themselves through coronavirus crisis  —  Tencent has raised $6bn in the latest big-ticket dollar bond sale in Asia …

There is no doubt the world is going to change after the pandemic. Some of those changes will be temporary, and some will be more permanent. Most industries had to adapt to remote work and adopt new technology immediately, but it already existed. Change was imminent, but possible.  Take restaurants, for example. A quick shift …

As millions of people around the United States scrambled in recent weeks to collect unemployment benefits and disbursements through the federal CARES Act, officials warned about the looming threat of COVID-19-related scams online. Now they’re here. Last Thursday, the Secret Service issued an alert about a massive operation to file fraudulent unemployment claims in states …

The technology that Adore Me is now using is not new. Automated fulfillment centers pioneered by behemoths like Amazon and Ocado Technology are vast places, with thousands of robots shunting millions of bins across spaces the size of several soccer fields. But in the last few years the tech has become more distributed as the …

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Report: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are among American tech companies providing web services to blacklisted Chinese surveillance firms like Dahua, Hikvision  —  – Amazon, Microsoft and Google are among a number of American firms that are providing various web services to blacklisted Chinese surveillance firms, a new report claims.

Recently, dropshipping has been quite popular as a type of business that needs fewer investments. Dropshipping is a sales system that provides for the direct transfer of goods from a supplier to a direct buyer. But does dropshipping actually work in 2020? Many entrepreneurs willingly to act as intermediaries for dropshipping can find success. These …

Enlarge / Screenshot from an AT&T commercial. AT&T has reluctantly agreed to stop using the phrase « 5G Evolution » to describe its 4G service in advertising but will apparently continue to use the misleading « 5GE » icon as the network indicator on phone screens even when there’s no 5G service. AT&T’s so-called 5G Evolution service is in …

Des études sur les macaques suggèrent que l’infection par le coronavirus confère une certaine immunité à sa nouvelle capture – et que les vaccins semblent également offrir une certaine protection. Questions: L’infection par le coronavirus vous rend-elle immunisée? Et un vaccin peut-il faire le même travail? Dans deux études publiées aujourd’hui dans Science, un groupe …