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This is welcomed news. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday it has granted emergency approval for American Airlines (AAL.O) to use a disinfectant against the coronavirus on certain surfaces that lasts for up to seven days, and is studying whether it could be effective in places like schools. For more, check out this…

TSMC is showcasing the latest developments in its advanced logic technology, specialty technologies, 3DIC system integration solutions, and design enablement ecosystem at the Company’s first online Technology Symposium and Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum. TSMC’s industry-leading 5 nanometer (nm) N5 technology entered volume production this year and defect density reduction is proceeding faster than…

With school and work at home during the Corona virus crisis, your Wi-Fi network may need a boost. Fortunately, you have a few methods of improving the speed, range and overall performance of your home network, with several easy-to-follow suggestions below – plus there’s a new wireless standard you should familiarize yourself with called Wi-Fi…

The asteroid 2020 QG won’t soon forget its run-in with Earth. “It’s really cool to see a small asteroid come by this close, because we can see the Earth’s gravity dramatically bend its trajectory,” Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a…

It will be in the air long before it reaches average road speeds. SkyDrive is a Japanese aero/auto startup helmed by former Toyota engineer Tomohiro Fukuzawa. The Tokyo-based company has ambitious plans to design and develop the world’s smallest flying car with aspirations of launching a flying taxi service as soon as 2023. By 2050,…

A battle royale seems to be brewing between tech titans Apple and Google and wildly popular game Fortnite. At issue is how players pay for weapon and outfit upgrades for their in-game personas. Apple and Google both require a cut for players using iOS and Android devices, essentially cutting into how much Epic takes in…

A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is helping scientists better understand the science of auroras and their powerful drivers out in space. Known as auroral beads, these lights often show up just before large auroral displays, which are caused by electrical storms in space called…

…and the benefit?? Xiaomi on Tuesday announced the “world’s first mass-produced” see-through transparent TV, the Mi TV Lux OLED Transparent Edition, as part of its 10th anniversary celebration. For more, check out this MSN/C|Net story.

When Sci-Fi becomes reality…a Los Angeles company has created phone booth-sized machines to beam live holograms into your living room. The device made by PORTL Inc lets users talk in real time with a life-sized hologram of another person. The machines also can be equipped with technology to enable interaction with recorded holograms of historical…

Intel is investigating a data breach that saw some 20 GB of internal company data released online with a promise of more to come. In a statement, Intel said that “the information appears to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for use by our customers, partners and other external parties…