News & Reviews: Coronavirus
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Mar 04, 2020
By now, you should have learned that the news regarding the KL Sentral being quarantined and people being infected by the COVID-19 is fake. Thanks to WhatsApp and Twitter, the news spread fast and it surely caused some panic there. But Malaysia is not the only country in the world experiencing that, so to tackle misinformation being spread around, a company came up with a chatbot called "nCov helpdesk" to solve this.
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Mar 04, 2020
The COVID-19 virus is sure doing a "good job", but not so much for the tech industry as it has forced another big company to cancel out an event. This time, the Google I/O won't be happening followed by their Cloud Next event in San Francisco. The Google I/O was supposed to be held in mid-May 2020.
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Feb 18, 2020
The face mask is now essential to everybody due to the Coronavirus outbreak. This has made it hard to unlock our phones using Apple or Android face ID by removing the mask every time. To solve that, a company has decided to solve this issue by developing N95 masks that can unlock your phones!
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Feb 18, 2020
The outbreak of the coronavirus continues to affect many, with Apple now warning that global supply for iPhones will be in shortage. Apple has pledged to aid public health efforts by doubling its donations but with the issues faced, the company expects the shortage to affect its global revenue.
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Feb 13, 2020
MWC is the world’s largest mobile trade show that usually attracts more than 10,000 attendees from 200 countries to Barcelona has just been officially canceled. The organization behind MWC, GSMA said it’s canceling MWC 2020 which scheduled to run between 24 to 27 February over coronavirus-related concerns.
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Feb 11, 2020
If you’ve been following the news of this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), you must’ve known a lot of companies are pulling themselves out in a concern of health and safety issues. The virus outbreak not only has affected thousands of people, but it has also taken away many lives as well. Therefore, many companies think that skipping the MWC 2020 would be a wise choice, including vivo, Intel, Mediatek, TCL and more.
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Feb 10, 2020
The coronavirus has spread from land to land and almost every country has started to take precautions against it. From banning China travellers entering the country to cancelling events, these are the things that are currently happening to ensure people’s health and safety. Although the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 has not been cancelled, there are still few exhibitors who announced that they will not be joining this year. Today, Sony becomes the fifth exhibitor to pull out from the event, in concern of the virus outbreak as well.
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Feb 10, 2020
For the past weeks, there are already four exhibitors to withdraw or scale back from the Mobile World Congress due to the current coronavirus outbreak. Today, another large exhibitor, Samsung is reported to be scaling back to attend the wireless extravaganza due to many executives canceling their trips.
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Feb 05, 2020
The unfortunate virus outbreak has caused several events to be delayed. Not long ago, Huawei postponed its largest event which is Huawei Developer Conference 2020 to a later date due to the issue. Other than that, LG has also pulled out from this year’s Mobile World Congress 2020 for safety-related concerns. Now, we might have to wait for the Asia Pacific Predator League 2020 to happen at another time as the virus is still spreading across the lands.
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Feb 03, 2020
With the on-going coronavirus outbreak, it has also affected the business world as well which means slowing down the manufacturing process of certain products. Since so many things are "Made in China", this also includes Apple and they recently announced that all the official stores, contact centres and corporate offices will be closed until 9 February 2020.
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