Tech giants are sending millions of N95 masks to healthcare workers in the US to help with the shortage, but the donations are raising questions to why these firms have a stockpile.

Online retailer Kogan has launched a massive 'frenzy' sale on home essentials as Australians increasingly stay indoors during the coronavirus pandemic.

Families in the UK enduring the lockdown are using an augmented reality feature from Google to bring an array of exotic beasts to life in their homes.

From Skype to Zoom, connecting with people via video conferencing apps is the new normal. FEMAIL rounds up easy to create outfits and hairstyles to look your best while socializing in quarantine.

April Fool's Day has rolled around once again and a few Australian companies still got in on the shameless tricks.

Nazeem Hussain pulled off an epic April Fool's Day prank on his mother by tricking her into thinking he was keeping a live tiger in his house. 

Google is skipping its tradition of designing an April Fools' Day joke on its front page during the COVID-19 pandemic, out of respect for people working to help curb the spread of the disease.

Britons have been using Google to look up the Government's guidance on helping firms with furloughed workers to keep them employed but without working.

Weather predicting app Dark Sky has been bought for Apple, which is killing off the Android version of the app. Dark Sky gives 'hyperlocal' global weather forecasts as well as interactive maps.

Anthony Levandowski, 39, a pioneer in the field of driverless vehicles, claims that Uber reneged on an agreement to pay for his legal expenses after it convinced him to leave Google in 2016.

YouTube is allowing ads to run on videos that promote sham coronavirus advice such as listening to music that 'improves cognitive positivity' and even not entering Chinese restaurants, a report says.

They can enter via Google Form, from April 5, where eligible teachers will be able to win a gown from her line - which she launched back in 2015 - with the winners unveiled on April 7.

The data, released on Friday by Google, uses aggregated, anonymized data harvested from from Google Maps to track recent changes in population movement.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz claimed that Google search results from around the world could be key to determining undiscovered coronavirus symptoms.

According to 9to5Google, when users open up their Maps app they will now see shortcuts on the home screen that help them find restaurants that are relevant from a delivery standpoint.

Self-isolating Australians are using the extra time they have holed up indoors to research the internet about anti-5G conspiracy theories, according to analytical search trends by Google.

The government of Taiwan has banned the popular video conferencing tool Zoom from being used for all official state business, and instead it recommends workers use Google or Microsoft.

Google will make its video game streaming service Stadia free for two months while many around the world are living under restrictive shutdown policies. Current subscribers are eligible.

Though hardware solutions allow those who are visually impaired to type on mobile devices, a virtual keyboard offers users a quick way to type without having connecting a physical keyboard.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the 'contract tracing' software would allow people who become unwell to warn those they had been in touch with 'over the past few days'  so they can 'act accordingly'.

'Adak National Forest' - which looks like a big bush from a distance - can be found on the remote Alaskan island of Adak, part of the volcanic Aleutian archipelago.

A draft document from last month considered whether the app should include the ability to reveal a person's identity 'if ministers judge that to be proportionate at some stage'.

The donations from Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google.org are going to GiveDirectly, a charity which provides cash to needy families in the San Francisco Bay area.

Trade body TechUK, which represents hundreds of technology companies in Britain including Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, said the Government should 'look again' at the new tax.

Google's development of a processor for Pixel phones and Chromebooks could materialize a chip as soon as early next year and could help the tech giant support on-board artificial intelligence.

According to an email from the Google-owned home security company sent to users, it will lower users' cameras to their default settings automatically to 'conserve internet resources.'

Sydneysiders are not following social distancing measures as strictly as Melburnians, according to new data from Apple and Google.

The US tech giant has more than billion users of its Gmail platform and has revealed it is currently blocking more than 100 million phishing emails a day.

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will on Monday announce a mandatory code on digital platforms to be finalised by July, bringing forward a November deadline.

Ex-Culture Committee chair Damian Collins is urging the government to follow the example of Australia, where new rules are being brought in to help prop up publications amid coronavirus turmoil.

Investigators used the search engine marketing tools Google Trends and SEMrush to determine what UK internet users have been looking up in lockdown.

Worldwide data reveals an all-time peak in queries pertaining to 'buzz cut' as people are forced to cut their own hair amid lockdown.

Charbel Kassas, 11, is talking and walking despite spending more than two months unconscious in Westmead Children's Hospital following the shocking crash in Sydney on February 1.

Dorsey tweeted that he would donate a billion dollars in the form of shares in Square to help coronavirus efforts but Securities Exchange Filings show he has donated less than that.

The site is piled high with household items with hundreds of car tyres, piles of clothes, suitcases and doors scattered across the disused road off the M4 in Newport, south Wales.

Google will still allow users to scroll through the results and will sometimes provide 'alternative' searches that could not better results by re-tailoring language or using different terms.

France's Les Echos also reports that Breton also pressed Apple to guarantee that the technology would be built with privacy in mind as well as being voluntary and transparent.

The app, due to be rolled out next week, will record the Bluetooth connections a phone makes with others to identify someone's contacts if they catch the virus.

The decision to disable tech supporting contact tracing apps designed to monitor the spread of COVID-19 be made on a geographic basis according to representatives.

Professor Christophe Fraser, from Oxford University's Big Data Institute, said 60 per cent of the UK population - or 40 million - would need to download the app.

People are most interested in learning how to bake banana bread and roll pizza dough from scratch in isolation during COVID-19, new data from search giant Google reveals.

According to a recent survey, three out of five Americans are either unable or unwilling to use contact tracing technology that uses a phone's Bluetooth signal to track the spread of COVID-19.

Google has been working tirelessly to combat the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus and found searches related to the pandemic are four times higher than the Super Bowl.

Google has told its employees the company offices will remain closed until at least June 1st because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and when it does reopen it will likely be in stages.

Meet was previously only available to customers who paid for Google's G Suite, but the service will be free without restrictions until Sept. 30 in a bid to challenge rivals like Zoom.

Google Trends data has revealed the most popular destinations for Zoom background pictures, and it's the Caribbean that's in the No1 spot, with searches for locations there up 9,900%.

After schools were closed in March and children were sent home, many pupils have been taught by their parents and taken to Google themselves to help with school work.

Raj Nathwani (left, with his mother Kanchan, father Suri and brother Manish) also used a Google spreadsheet to monitor 81-year-old Suri's vital signs and kept his house clean in Watford.

NHS digital innovation arm NHSX has asked the London office of Swiss firm Zuhlke Engineering to develop and support the new coronavirus app which is on trial on the Isle of Wight.

Residents on the Isle of Wight today claim they are unable to use the new NHS contact tracing app on phones which are more than two years old.