SpaceX to launch satellite to provided internet to Pacific islands
There are thousands of islands in the Pacific that still do not have internet access as so few people live there. A satellite startup called Kacific has found that enough people live on these islands that launching a satellite to give them internet access will be profitable. SpaceX has already launched the first of these satellites.
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Video Conferencing apps experience record levels of demand
Due to the lockdown that has taken place in numerous countries across the planet, more and more people are working via video conference apps and software. Since people are unable to leave their homes, video conference apps have gotten 62 million new downloads this week, a new world record.
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Youtube lowers video quality to preserve bandwidth as demand surges
Youtube has announced that all of the videos on its platform will now default to Standard Definition in order to conserve bandwidth. Demand for the service has grown by a large amount during the coronavirus quarantine and this has placed a huge burden on broadband providers who may not be able to keep up.
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Content moderation startup Unitary raises £1.3 million
Founded by Sasha Haco, who previously worked with Stephen Hawking on black holes, Unitary is an artificial intelligence content moderation startup that aims to detect dangerous or malicious content automatically from the hundreds of hours of video uploaded to the internet every minute. Unitary just raised 1.3 million GBP in seed funding from Rocket Internet's GFC, Jane VC, SGH Capital, and several anonymous angel investors.
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Microsoft leads an attack against the world's largest bot network
A statement from tech giant Microsoft, one of the most valuable companies in the world, has stated that the company has successfully participated in a project to dismantle Necurs, one of the world's largest zombie bot networks, which are webs of internet-connected devices that are used to accomplish tasks automatically. Necurs had been responsible for several cyberattacks aimed at stealing customer information and phishing scams across the world.
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