Billionaire Elon Musk claimed that by August, an internet connection from anywhere except the poles should be provided by his Starlink satellite-internet system. His comments coincided with the announcement of Starlink’s rival OneWeb securing the funding that it deems would be required for completion of its first-generation constellation of 648 satellites. Small satellite receivers called…
A standalone newsletter product platform for free and paid articles and podcasts called “Bulletin” was launched by the social media giant Facebook Inc on Tuesday which is slated to compete with Substack. In a live audio room on Facebook, the launch of the new platform was announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The new product…
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to the overall vehicles sales in Europe last year, there was a surge in sales of low-emission car sales and one in every nine new cars sold in in the region was an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle, showed data released by the European Environment Agency…
After twitter published a map that incorrectly showed the turbulent Indian region of Kashmir as a separate country, a criminal case has been filed against the micro blogging social media site in India. Describing the publication of the distorted map “an act of treason”, a police report was filed against Twitter’s head in India, Manish…
A list of its products that users should keep at a “safe distance” away from medical devices such as pacemakers and implanted defibrillators was issued by the iPhone maker Apple. The list includes Apple’s models of iPhone 12 models, Apple Watch and MacBook Pro. Components such as magnets can be found inside many of the…
Charges in a lawsuit that alleged that the e-cigarettes manufactured by the Juul were marketed targeting young people will be settled by the company with a US state. A settlement fee of $40m payable over a period of six years will be made by Jull to North however iarolina while also bringing in changes to…
In a significant development, the United States, Canada and Australia have teamed up to create and launch an interactive map of deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals that are expected to be in hot demand as the world moves to cleaner forms of energy. The website portal.ga.gov.au/persona/cmmi contains the world’s largest dataset of minerals such…
Lender UBS will implement a hybrid working regimen unlike many of its peers on Wall Street. The option of choosing a mix of working from home and from the office would be given to up to two-thirds of its employees around the world by the Swiss bank, said reports quoting sources with knowledge of the…
The pace of taking uncomfortable decisions by governments all across the world to persuade consumers to bring down energy consumption and thus helping in achieving climate targets has been very slow largely because of reluctance of consumers to compromise of their lifestyles and pay up higher prices. Even though there is increasing pressure on…
While issuing a warning to consumers of digital currencies in Britain about Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, the rinanicla regulator of the country has ordered the platform not to conduct any regulated activity. The cryptocurrency exchanges are under scrutiny globally. Binance Markets Ltd, Binance’s only regulated entity in the United Kingdom, “must…
