The West must urgently act to ensure that China does not dominate the key technologies of the 21st century, Britain’s top cyber spy said.
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As Apple was revealing its newest products on Tuesday, one of its primary suppliers was enduring a ransomware attack from a Russian operator claiming to have stolen blueprints of the US company’s latest products.
Netflix said slower production of TV shows and movies during the pandemic hurt subscriber growth in the first quarter, sending shares of the world’s largest streaming service down 11% on Tuesday.
Pony Ma pledged $7.7-billion towards curing societal ills and lifting China’s countryside out of poverty, echoing Xi Jinping’s priorities at a time Beijing is tightening its grip on Internet giants.
A Tesla electric car that “no one” appeared to be driving crashed late on Saturday in Texas in the US, erupting into flames and killing the two passengers, according to local authorities.
Nasa conducted its first flight on another planet on Monday. It was a short hop for a small chopper named Ingenuity but it demonstrated technology that could prove critical to the future of space exploration.
It’s getting crowded up there, and awfully dangerous. By up there, I mean space – and not the far-off areas that concern astronomers and science fiction.
More people were diagnosed with Covid-19 during the past seven days than any other week since the start of the pandemic.
British finance minister Rishi Sunak told the Bank of England on Monday to look at the case for a new “britcoin”, or central bank-backed digital currency.
In an iOS update expected this month, Apple will start asking users for permission to track their data across apps. The impact on smaller app developers could be devastating.