There have been questions raised over the rules and regulations for import of meat into the U.K. from the U.S. following some new data that has revealed that about five-fold more antibiotic medicines is used in the U.S. in comparison to the U.K. in livestock that are raised for food there. With respect to the…
A number of scientists engaged at a top-secret Russian nuclear warhead facility were arrested on allegations that they were engaged in cryptocurrency mining by Russian security officers. According to media reports, one of Russia’s most powerful supercomputers was attempting to be used by the suspects for mining Bitcoins. The incident took place at the Federal…
The manner in which the U.S. has been ravaged by influenza this year is comparable to scenarios where there is appearance of the completely new strain of virus which impacts an entire vulnerable population even before such a population has managed to find out a way to create defenses against it. This latest health phenomenon…
Allegations against Uber that it had stolen trade secrets of the self-driving firm Waymo have bene settled. Stake worth approximately $245m (£177m) or 0.34 per cent in Uber is being given to Waymo under the agreement. Even though Uber had maintained it never made use of Waymo’s technologies, the agreement also saw Uber pledging never…
While there was a stalling of the overall growth of users due to a clampdown on fake accounts, the first quarterly profits in its 12-year history was reported by social media platform Twitter. A string of cost cutting measures at the San Francisco-based social network company resulted n the company reporting a net profit of…
Fraedom, a company that offers the technology of Software-as-a-Service and provides solutions for payments and transaction management for clients including financial institutions and other corporate customers would be acquired by Visa. The latter made announcement recently. Visa IntelliLink Spend Management which is a core platform that caters to the needs of Visa’s commercial and small-business…
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker has pledged to regain its lost position as the top smartphone seller in the Chinese market. The company intends to regain that position within a period of 10 quarters. Xiaomi had lost the position as the top smartphone company in its domestic market in 2016. This was pledged by the…
The industry of business jets holds much more to offer other than the notion that it is just an indulgence of the global elite. This is being exhibited a very new company into this industry. Touted to be the first of its kind in the world, the Starling Jet is a hybrid-electric business aircraft which…
Faster analysis of relationships between large sets of data is possible to be done with quantum computers compared to classical computers according to a study by an international team. Also, the analysis is now possible for a wider range of data types than was expected earlier. A “quantum linear system algorithm” was proposed by a…
Two government led studies in the U.S. have indicated that there is very little health risk, if at all, from the use of cellphones on humans. One of the studies was done on rats and the other on mice. Even as cell phones have turned out to be an integral part of the life of…
