Advanced face mask kills bacteria and viruses with sun exposure

A cotton face mask that uses a special fabric that can kill 99.99 per cent of bacteria and viruses within 60 minutes of daylight exposure has been developed by Californian researchers.  While face masks made of various cloth materials have been shown to filter nanoscale aerosol particles such as those released by a cough or … Read more

Air taxi hub to be established in Florida

The US’s first regional hub for flying cars is to be built in Orlando, Florida by the Tavistock Development Corp and aviation startup Lilium.  The Lake Nona Vertiport will be built near Orlando International Airport in the Lake Nona community, which has ambitions to become a ‘smart city’ and is already home to medical and … Read more

Water sector commits to net-zero carbon plan by 2030

UK water companies have unveiled a plan to deliver a net-zero carbon water supply for customers by 2030.  Water UK, which represents all the major water firms, has published its Net Zero 2030 Routemap, which sets out they will tackle climate change by reaching net-zero two decades ahead of the UK government’s legally binding target of … Read more

Huawei to sell budget smartphone business for $15bn

According to a Reuters report, Shenzhen-based tech giant Huawei is planning to sell its budget smartphone subsidiary Honor to a consortium led by the government of Shenzhen and Digital China Group.  Honor was established by Huawei in 2013, offering a range of budget-friendly smartphones mostly targeted at young consumers as an alternative to high-end Huawei-branded … Read more

EU smacks Amazon with antitrust charges over seller data

The European Commission has filed charges against Amazon, accusing the tech giant of illegal anti-competitive behaviour regarding its use of third-party sales data, and opened a second investigation into other potential antitrust violations.  The Commission accused Amazon of systematically using non-public sales data regarding third-party sellers on its platform in order to inform its own … Read more

How to Install Dropbox on Ubuntu

Dropbox is stand-out player in cloud storage and its Linux clients works really well on Ubuntu once installed properly. While Google Drive comes out of the box on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and later, Dropbox is still a preferred cloud storage tool on Linux in terms of features it offers. Installing Dropbox from Command Line We … Read more

How to Install Krita in Ubuntu

Krita is a free and open-source digital painting, editing and animation application developed by KDE. It has excellent user interface with everything placed perfectly so that you can easily find the tool you need. Installing Krita Ubuntu offers multiple ways for users to install Krita on their computers. The next sections will take a look … Read more

How to install Neofetch in Ubuntu

Neofetch is a cool system information tool that gives you all the information about your system by running “neofetch” command in Terminal. It is cool tool to have because it gives you information about desktop environment, kernel version, bash version and GTK theme you are running. The repositories have been added. Run the apt update command to … Read more

How to install Mailspring on Ubuntu

MailSpring earlier known as Nylas Mail or Nylas N1 is an open-source email client. It saves all the mails locally on computer so that you can access them anytime you need. It features advanced search which uses AND and OR operations so that you can search for mails based on different parameters. The easiest way … Read more