According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, Apple Inc is moving ahead with plans on self-driving car technology and is targeting to produce a passenger vehicle by 2024. The self driving passenger vehicle could feature its breakthrough battery technology, said sources familiar with the matter at hand. Apple’s automotive efforts, known as Project…
An Indian short-video sharing app, Josh, has raised more than $100 million from investors including Microsoft, and Google, in a growing space that further eats into TikTok’s market share. Josh is one of several short video platforms have cropped up after India blocked the Chinese consumer data harvesting app in June. Josh has drawn global…
He is “certain” that Boeing’s grounded 737 Max planes are now safe to fly, said the head of Europe’s aviation safety agency, EASA, in an interview to the BBC. In the review of the Boeing plane and the analysis of design changes made by the manufacturer in the planes, his organisation had “left no stone…
It is well known that viruses mutate all the time. Every year there is mutation of the seasonal influenza virus. Therefore scientists were not surprised that variants of the novel coronavirus – that causes Covid-19, were detected since the pandemic had begun. However a new strain of the Cvoid-19 causing virus in recent days has…
After a slew of impairments this year and with the company trying to adjust to a weaker outlook, the value of oil and gas assets by $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion will be written down by Royal Dutch Shell, the company said on Monday. The impairments on its Appomattox field in the US Gulf of…
According to two sources briefed on the matter at hand, U.S. lawmakers will back $1.9 billion program to fund a removal of Chinese communication gear that it deems as a threat to national security risks. Lawmakers will also back a $3.2 billion program for an emergency broadband which will benefit low-income Americans, confirmed senior congressional…
A cyber attack that compromised a third-party software vendor’s systems rattled the United States government this week which resulted in data breaches at a number of federal agencies, including the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber unit. But many of the biggest companies in the country have…
The Covid-19 vaccine developed by the pharma company Moderna has been granted approval by the United States government which makes it the second vaccine against the pandemic ot be given the green signal in the country. That now clears the way for the company to release millions of doses of the vaccine. It was a…
A number of violations by Taiwanese firm and Apple supplier Wistron and its vendors were found in a preliminary investigation by an Indian labour office into the violence last weekend at the factory of the company in the Southern Indian city of Bengaluru, India, said reports quoting sources. Workers at the factory, angry at…
The video conferencing app that shot to global prominence, market valuation and the number of users during the novel coronavirus pandemic, has decided to present its users a holiday gift. The company said that the 40 minute limit for free subscribers using the video conferencing facility would be lifted for this holiday season which will…
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