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IEA: Electric Car Sales Continue to Grow Strongly
Sales of electrically powered cars continue to increase strongly, after the record sales of a year earlier. According to the energy agency IEA, the increase is related to a deluge of new models in combination with government policies to…
Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft on Its Way to ISS
Boeing successfully launched its Starliner spacecraft on Thursday evening. The Starliner took off from the Cape Canaveral launch site, Florida, at exactly 6:54 p.m. local time for an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station.…
Musk Wants to See Evidence of Fake Twitter Accounts Before Takeover Proceeds
Billionaire Elon Musk will only proceed with his takeover of Twitter if the social media platform can substantiate his claims about the proportion of fake accounts on the news service.
The CEO of car manufacturer Tesla had already…
Apple Pulls the Plug on the iPod
Tech giant Apple is discontinuing the iconic iPod after more than twenty years. The music player will remain for sale while supplies last, the American company announced this week.
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who died in 2011,…
Investors are Suing Netflix for Misleading Subscriber Information
Netflix made misleading statements about its subscriber count before reporting a decline in paying users. That is the opinion of investors taking the listed streaming platform to court in the American state of California.
When…
One Million Less Play Store Apps in Four Years
The number of mobile apps you can download from Google's Play Store has fallen by one million units in the past four years.
In March of this year, the Google Play Store counted 2,591,578 applications. That's a 28 percent drop from…
FBI Accuses Hackers With Ties to North Korea of Online Theft of $620 Million
A group of hackers with ties to North Korea is behind the $620 million crypto theft that followed the Axie Infinity video game hack in late March.
"Our investigation confirms that Lazarus Group and APT38, online groups with ties to…
Google Invests Heavily in Return to the Office
Internet giant Google is allocating a large sum of money to get people back into the office. The company announced that it would invest $9.5 billion in offices and data centres during the year.
The American Google, part of…
The Cyberattack on Ukraine’s Electricity Grid Stopped
Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team says it has repulsed an attack against its power grid. He was allegedly executed by Sandworm, a group linked to the Russian secret service.
The attackers allegedly attempted to disable…
Huge Cybercrime Bazaar Hydra Shut Down
The German police have shut down Hydra, one of the largest illegal web forums where, among other things, drugs and other illegal goods were traded.
Hydra has been around for six years and has been one of the largest cybercrime…