Amazon Will Soon Start Using Drones to Deliver Packages in Just 30 Minutes Upping the ante for its rivals, Amazon on Wednesday unveiled its latest and Next-Gen Prime Air drone that can fly up to 24 km and deliver packages under 2.5 kg to customers in less than 30 minutes. The drone would start shipping packages within months, starting with the US. “With the help of our world-class fulfillment and delivery network, we expect to scale Prime Air both quickly and efficiently, delivering packages via drone to customers within months,” Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, told the audience at its “Re: Mars” event here....

Asus Issues Official Statement Regarding Delhi High Court Verdict on ZenFone Branding In light of the recent ban issued by the Delhi High Court on Asus’ usage of the ZenFone branding in India, the Taiwanese company has now given an official statement regarding the situation. The company states that“The ASUS legal team is currently working with the Delhi High Court in India to resolve the Zen Mobiles and ZenFone trademark lawsuit....

China Grants 5G Licenses to 4 Telecom Operators The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has granted commercial 5G licenses to four of the country’s telecom operators — China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, and Broadcasting Network Corp. With this step, the country has taken a big leap forward towards full commercial deployment of 5G networks in the country. Back in 2018, China had given licenses to three of the country’s state-owned telecom operators, but those were just for trialling 5G services in the country; the new licenses will allow the operators to deploy 5G networks commercially, and at scale....

Facebook May Introduce Its Cryptocurrency in June Facebook may finally launch its long-rumoured cryptocurrency later in June. The cryptocurrency, under Facebook’s “Project Libra”, is reportedly aimed at allowing Facebook’s global users to transfer money across borders and to make online purchases. With its cryptocurrency, the social networking giant is planning to include bonuses for merchants that adopt it. Infact, employees in the project would even have the choice to be paid in the cyber currency, Engadget reported on Wednesday....

Facebook Sued by Dutch Billionaire Over Fake Bitcoin Ads Dutch billionaire John de Mol, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for allowing fake Bitcoin related ads on its platform that were using his image to perpetrate the fraud. According to his lawyers, the social media giant had failed to prevent the ads from appearing on the platform, and had also failed to respond to complaints in a timely manner. According to reports, the ads claimed de Mol’s involvement or backing in Bitcoin related schemes and enticed people to send money to purchase Bitcoin or get involved in what were fake cryptocurrency-related businesses....

How to Install iOS 13 Developer Beta on Your iPhone At its WWDC 2019 keynote, Apple unveiled the upcoming operating system for its family of iPhones and the 7th generation iPod Touch — iOS 13 — and released a developer beta for developers to try out and test their apps on. Well, if you can’t seem to wait for the next iteration of iOS to release this fall, here’s how to install iOS 13 developer beta on your iPhone:...

Huawei Signs Deal to Develop 5G Network in Russia Chinese giant Huawei has signed a deal with Russian telecom operator MTS to develop a 5G network in the country over the course of the next year. The deal was signed on the sidelines of a meeting between the presidents of the two countries, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. Speaking about the deal, MTS said in a statement that the partnership will see“the development of 5G technologies and the pilot launch of fifth-generation networks in 2019-2020....