Signal is down for many users right now. Its status website says the encrypted messaging app is “experiencing technical difficulties” and many people are getting an in-app error message that says the same thing. The company says it is “working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.” TechCrunch has contacted Signal for comment. Signal’s…
To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum. How will 5G technology enable collaborative robotics in industrial environments? According to Singapore telco Singtel, manufacturers are using a variety of robots for industrial tasks. There are robots that can move products from one location to another and robots…
Ninja Van, a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth. Investors include China’s Alibaba Group as well as existing investors DPDgroup’s GeoPost, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Savering’s B Capital Group, Monk’s Hill Ventures, and Zamrud, a sovereign wealth fund controlled by Brunei, based on its…
Google on Friday rolled out an emergency security patch to its Chrome web browser to address a security flaw that’s known to have an exploit in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-37973, the vulnerability has been described as use after free in Portals API, a web page navigation system that enables a page to show another…
An Ookla analysis covering H1 2021 has found that 5G networks in the UK are getting faster and boosting consumer sentiment. Early in the deployment of any new mobile network generation, it’s not clear to the wider public of the benefits. This is especially true as go-to metrics like download speeds aren’t initially as pronounced…
An Ookla analysis covering H1 2021 has found that 5G networks in the UK are getting faster and boosting consumer sentiment. Early in the deployment of any new mobile network generation, it’s not clear to the wider public of the benefits. This is especially true as go-to metrics like download speeds aren’t initially as pronounced…
An Ookla analysis covering H1 2021 has found that 5G networks in the UK are getting faster and boosting consumer sentiment. Early in the deployment of any new mobile network generation, it’s not clear to the wider public of the benefits. This is especially true as go-to metrics like download speeds aren’t initially as pronounced…
I love the ambition by many organizations to end roadway deaths in the United States by 2050, but is that a realistic goal? How close are we to reaching that goal? And what still needs to be done to get there? Earlier this month the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Admin.) released the Early Estimate…
The WWE Extreme Rules 2021 live stream is here, and it looks plenty interesting and mightily peculiar. And since we’re watching the show at home, we’re updating the results section below. First, though, two pieces of breaking news. After a scuffle broke out backstage, we’ve got a new match added to the card: The New…
This week’s image from the beloved Hubble Space Telescope shows a dazzling array of stars, squeezed into a group known as a globular cluster. This is a dense collection of stars held together by gravity, forming a roughly spherical shape and composed of hundreds of thousands or even millions of stars. This particular cluster is…
