Technology

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Streaming service Netflix Inc has fixed a temporary outage that affected some users in the United States and United Kingdom on Wednesday, the company said. “Some of our members in the U.S. and Europe were unable…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed on Wednesday to fight hacking related to the novel coronavirus. Called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat intelligence, the group spans more than…

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) will reopen its New York factory “as soon as humanly possible” to manufacture ventilators for coronavirus patients, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Twitter on Wednesday. Medtronic Plc (MDT.N) Chief Executive Officer Omar Ishrak…

(Reuters) – Chipmaker Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) forecast current-quarter revenue above analysts’ estimates on Wednesday and said the shift to work-from-home globally due to the coronavirus outbreak is fueling demand for notebooks and data center services. Authorities around the world…

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Kat Volpe laid out an exercise mat and tried to sync her iPhone with her big screen TV for a fitness class webcast on Instagram last week during New York’s coronavirus lockdown. But the popular app…

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s online delivery firms, including Walmart Inc’s Flipkart and Amazon’s grocery service Pantry, have had to halt services as a 21-day nationwide lockdown began to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Flipkart, whose services include…

(Reuters) – A U.S. cybersecurity firm said Wednesday it has detected a surge in new cyberspying by a suspected Chinese group dating back to late January, when the coronavirus began to spread beyond China.

(Reuters) – As independent contractors, U.S. ride-hail drivers for Uber and Lyft benefited from soaring trip demand and flexible work hours. But as the coronavirus brings large parts of the country to a halt, drivers and companies are facing the…

PARIS (Reuters) – France will roll out a 4 billion euro ($4.33 billion) liquidity support plan for start-ups in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, junior minister Cédric O said on Wednesday. Investments in early stage digital companies have boomed…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – E.ON, Germany’s largest energy group, has been hired by Tesla to design the energy solutions for its planned Gigafactory near Berlin, chief executive Johannes Teyssen said. “They’ve given us 18 months. And we’ll deliver,” Teyssen said. Source:www.reuters.com