Vancouver hosts world's first commercial electric flight
Harbor Air, an airline founded and headed by Greg McDougall in the city of Vancouver in Canada, successfully performed the world's first commercial flight powered fully by an electric motor rather than combustion. McDougall piloted the plane himself, which was a 62-year-old DHC-2 De Havilland Beaver seaplane with 6 passengers, and was modified to run on electric power.
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Zoom offered an apology for calls routed through China
Video-conferencing platform zoom gained massive popularity in recent days due to coronavirus pandemic, but there are several privacy concerns in the app and experts highlighted those in recent days. One such instance happened when the research findings by Citizen lab research shows that the calls in North America were routed through China, the company offered an apology for the mistake and released a partial technical explanation
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SpaceX Starship destroyed in pressure testing
SpaceX's latest Starship prototype, named the SN3, suffered a catastrophic failure during a cryogenic proof test, which tests the spaceship's integrity by subjecting it to pressures similar to what it would face during a test flight. The company's founder and CEO Elon Musk posted on Twitter that the failure may have been caused by a faulty configuration.
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D-Wave provides COVID-19 researchers with free access
The Canadian quantum computing startup D-Wave has announced that they will provide free cloud access to their quantum processors for any researchers that are working to develop solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. This includes not just pharmaceutical research but also research that seeks to solve logistical problems, diagnostics or contagion modeling.
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Oppo releases world's first 44 MP dual punch-hole camera phone
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has launched what it claims to be the world's first 44-megapixel dual punch-hole camera phone, called the Oppo Reno 3 Pro. A similar device was released in China 3 months earlier, but only possessed a single punch-hole camera. The new Oppo Reno 3 Pro will also be optimized for 5G technology and will be a fast-charging enabled phone.
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