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KONE 24x7 Connected Services uses sensors to collect and log data to a cloud-based programme that alerts its technicians. This would ensure uninterrupted flow of movement of medical staff, patients, and families at medical facilities. (Photos | Kone)

Hospitals using KONE elevators to get free sensor-enabled technology...

The cloud-based solution collects data on equipment performance, identifies deviations and alerts technicians...

28 April 2020 1:20 PM GMT

The device developed by IIT Guwahati functions as an aerosol obstruction box which can be placed atop the patients bed on the head-side, limiting the flow of virus-laden droplets from the patient to the doctor, especially during the process of intubation, which is known to be cough inducing. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons)

IIT students' prototype intubation boxes to protect doctors from...

It is a transparent box with armholes through which doctors can insert a tube into the airway of the patient

28 April 2020 11:06 AM GMT

JioMart, an e-commerce venture of Reliance Retail, has already started interacting with customers on WhatsApp for grocery orders in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan, Credit Suisse said in a report.

Reliance JioMart begins using WhatsApp for grocery deliveries in Navi...

The deal with Facebook will help Ambani set up a digital platform to take on Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart

27 April 2020 4:58 PM GMT

Amazon India will transport consignments via rail across the country and is leveraging the COVID-19 Parcel Special Trains introduced by the Indian Railways to ramp up its operations. (Photo | PTI)

Amazon India ramps up operations with Railways tie-up for faster...

Last year, Amazon India partnered with Indian Railways to transport its goods on 13 lanes, now it will use 55 lanes

27 April 2020 12:34 PM GMT

The team claims that only 28 per cent of the waste generated in India is recycled and various studies found that the waste generated in the country was doubling every five years. (Representative Image | AFP)

Smart dustbin system developed by IIT Madras start-up to prevent...

The digital waste management system can generate alerts to sanitation teams at regular intervals on fill levels

27 April 2020 11:30 AM GMT

it does not make any sense to attack doctors during a pandemic. Until you read Indian Express report that fake WhatsApp videos were circulated in localities claiming that healthy Muslims are being taken away and injected with the virus were doing the rounds of Tatpatti Bakhal and adjoining localities.

Stay safe and go back to the newspaper this pandemic

We did not need a global pandemic to realise how big a challenge misinformation is, but it helps.

27 April 2020 9:37 AM GMT

Swanky offices with every floor having a fully stocked pantry of coffee and snacks are all going to become things of the past, as companies cut costs by keeping employees working from home and on their own resources.

Work-from-home will continue post-lockdown for over one million IT...

Businesses are rethinking using office spaces as they can save on rental costs

27 April 2020 9:13 AM GMT

Googles Play Store has apps with child abuse material, links to WhatsApp groups which are encrypted are found on Twitter, the NCPCR said, indicating the need for the tech-enabled companies to do more proactively to shut down child sexual abuse material.

Searches for child sexual abuse material spike, NCPCR sends notice to...

A recent report by India Child Protection Fund showed that there has been a surge in searches for child sexual abuse...

26 April 2020 5:21 PM GMT

Quarterly updates are due this week from Google parent Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, all of which will see an impact from the pandemic.

Big Tech firms try to highlight covid efforts to burnish image as they...

Quarterly results looming, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft do not want to be seen as having cashed in on the...

26 April 2020 4:52 PM GMT

Some 300 leading academics urged governments to dismiss the centralised approach to an app they were backing, saying it risked undermining public trust. They said an approach being developed by Apple and Google, whose operating systems run most of the worlds smartphones, was more privacy friendly. (Photo | AP)

Germany backs Google and Apple's covid app, after privacy concerns...

Backing for a pan-European app that was to keep data on a central server was stopped over criticism from a nation...

26 April 2020 4:10 PM GMT

Apart from Aarogya Setu, the Centre and state governments are using at least 28 mobile applications to tackle the covid-19 pandemic. (Representative Image | AP)

28 covid apps used by Centre, States not open source, cannot be...

Privacy concerns abound as independent developers cannot study the code

26 April 2020 11:10 AM GMT

Working student Leon Rottmann and Katharina Obladen (R) stand at the mechanics workshop of the Startup UVIS UV-Innovative Solutions in Cologne, western Germany, on April 22, 2020. Three blue-glowing UVC lamps line the inside of the rectangular metal case. (Photo | AFP)

German startup's escalator disinfecting fitment in demand across globe...

Europe's largest elevator and escalator makers Thyssenkrupp, Schindler, Otis and Kone were early customers but demand...

26 April 2020 8:16 AM GMT