The Chinese government locked 34,000 visitors inside Shanghai Disneyland on Sunday after a single guest tested positive for COVID-19 after returning home. In a surprising twist of events where the longest line at Disneyland was not for a ride, the visitors lined up to undergo COVID testing by people...
> "From now on, we will be metaverse-first, not Facebook-first". - Mark Zuckerberg, commenting on the rebranding. Announced at the Connect 2021 event on Thursday, Facebook is changing its corporate name to Meta as part of a rebranding effort to reflect its commitment to developing “the successor to the mobile internet....
During a recent interview with CNBC, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that the global chip shortage would continue until at least 2023. Gelsinger noted that the ongoing chip crisis affected Intel’s PC business in Q3 of 2021 and that while every quarter is getting incrementally better, the industry won’...
Netflix has launched a new online marketplace in partnership with retail giant Walmart. The store will feature toys, apparel, games, books, and other merchandise from hit Netflix original series like Squid Game, Stranger Things, The Witcher, and more. In addition to new products, Walmart’s Netflix hub will soon provide...
El Salvador has officially started mining Bitcoin using power generated from a volcano. President Nayib Bukele tweeted an image of the mining progress, and the “volcanode” has already made 0.00599179 bitcoin (about $269). He also shared a video showing the volcano-powered mining operation in action, with an industrial plant...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine for use worldwide. The vaccine can save tens of thousands of lives annually, as malaria kills about half a million people each year, nearly all of them in sub-Saharan Africa and a majority of whom are children...
