Current on appealing on extradition charges to the U.S., Kim Dotcom has yet to detail why organisations will upload content through Bitcontent when their existing setup already has paying customers. Kim Dotcom, New Zealand’s controversial entrepreneur who earlier shot to fame when U.S. law enforcement agencies raided and closed down his site Megaupload for violating…
Alphabet’s Waymo has dragged Uber to court for pilfering its technology that has taken thousands of hours to perfect. The statistics provided by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles made an interesting read. The fact that Uber’s self-driving car program is a work in progress that doesn’t stack up with the progress made by its peers is…
While Ford sold 6.7 million cars in 2016 to get its net worth, Tesla sold less than 80,000 cars in the same period. In a landmark development for Tesla, Bloomberg has reported that the luxury carmaker’s value has surpassed Ford’s. While Ford Motors is currently valued at about $45.1 billion, Tesla is valued at $47.8…
As per the report, the Fed’s existing system used to monitor large banks is insufficient to timely detect a financial crisis in the making. A study by auditors of the Federal Reserve has found inconsistencies in the way the central bank monitors big banks. Their report also state that its lack of consistency is likely…
By saying that he would champion American states that wanted to secede from the union, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker hit back at Donald Trump’s support for the U.K.’s withdrawal from the European Union. “The newly elected U.S. president was happy that Brexit was taking place and was asking other countries to do the…
As an Australian regulator barred lenders from bargaining collectively for access, Apple Inc. on Friday won a victory in its global fight to prevent banks from introducing their own mobile payment services on Apple devices. Introducing their own mobile applications on iPhones and Apple Watches that could be used for contactless payments instead of the…
FCC’s proposal will result in prices shooting up. The Republican head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed to lower regulatory requirements in the $45 billion business of data services. Companies such as CenturyLink Inc, AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications and others have since long been clamouring for easing of norms. However the proposal…
The luxurious interiors are designed for tourists unlike the mission oriented capsules of SpaceX and the likes. With space tourism inching towards becoming a reality, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has given plenty of glimpses inside its tourism-oriented New Shepard rocket. It has now released the interior photos of its New Shepard’s capsule for its utilitarian spacecraft…
The simple process of the breaking down of organic materials – such as food waste –by microorganisms to produce biogas as a by-product is often termed as anaerobic digestion – or AD, and for many who are no conversant with this term and the process, this may sound like a strange concept. And looking to…
The International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, said on Thursday that last year saw global renewable energy generation capacity increase by 161 gigawatts (GW). The planet’s renewable energy capacity had hit an estimated 2,006 GW, by the end of 2016, IRENA said. With 71 GW of new solar energy leading the way, its data showed renewable…
