Innovations

July 2, 2020 - 11:39 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia's leading telecommunications operator, Viva-MTS, has summed up its activity in the last 15 years. Viva-MTS has gone through a challenging path, making its mobile network available to the 99.8% of the population. The achievements are especially tangible in the field of innovative...

June 23, 2020 - 11:16 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Beta-testing for Elon Musk‘s Starlink internet is slated to arrive this summer and users can now sign up with their email address and zip code on its official website, HYPEBEAST reports. The SpaceX program aims to allow access to the Internet from virtually anywhere on earth and poor r...

June 18, 2020 - 13:06 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Twitter on Wednesday, June 17 unveiled audio tweets for a "limited group" of iOS users who can create tweets with their voice. In the coming weeks, all iOS users should have access to voice tweets, CNN reports. The feature comes after the launch of a buzzy, invite-only app called Clubh...

June 17, 2020 - 10:37 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Robotmaker Boston Dynamics has finally put its four-legged robot Spot on general sale. After years of development, the company began leasing the machine to businesses last year, and is now letting any U․S․ firm buy their very own Spot for $74,500, The Verge reports. It’s a hefty price ...

June 16, 2020 - 16:14 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - WhatsApp has launched its digital payments service in Brazil as the messaging app capitalises on its popularity in emerging markets, the BBC reports. The move comes as parent company Facebook pushes ahead with plans to bring more e-commerce to its platforms. WhatsApp Pay allows users ...

June 12, 2020 - 15:39 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - SuperAnnotate, an AI-driven annotation platform by Armenian specialists for data scientists and machine learning teams, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Berlin’s Point Nine Capital. Runa Capital and Fathom Capital also joined the investment, as well as previous investors Ber...

June 12, 2020 - 13:01 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The Tamagotchi, the virtual pet that was so popular in the 90s, is coming to North America again in July, with a new product called Tamagotchi On Wonder Garden, CNN reports. The $59.99 toy will launch on July 26. Online pre-orders are available at Target, Amazon, Walmart and GameStop. ...

June 11, 2020 - 14:22 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Viva-MTS announced on Thursday, June 11 that subscribers to Viva prepaid and postpaid tariff plans can convert the embedded on-net airtime to MBs: 1 minute = 3 MB. To exchange the minutes with MBs, you will need the My Viva-MTS application, which is available on both Google Play and Ap...

June 11, 2020 - 11:26 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - A new social media app created with the input of Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) is looking to take on Facebook, Forbes says. The creators of the ad-free platform claim users of Mark Zuckerberg's service are “fed up with Facebook and Twitter because of their politi...

May 30, 2020 - 13:31 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Google had been planning to unveil new features coming in Android 11 on June 3, but it has decided to delay the unveiling. In a tweet on Friday, May 29 evening, Android’s developer account said that “We are excited to tell you more about Android 11, but now is not the time to celebrate”,...