Qatar’s Ministry of Transport has announced plans to test the services of the electric air taxi and electric delivery planes in early 2025. In a statement, the Ministry said that it had applied for all the necessary approvals and coordination matters with the Qatari bodies concerned, to go ahead with such test runs. This step
Huawei is revamping its retail strategy and aggressively opening flagship stores in China, with some just a stone’s throw away from Apple shops, as it seeks to retake the premium electronics throne in the world’s biggest smartphone market. Situated directly across from Apple’s Shanghai flagship store, Huawei’s recently renovated shop spans three floors of a
Video sharing platform Rumble has said that it has sued Google, arguing the tech giant has engaged in anticompetitive practices across its digital advertising products and sought damages in excess of $1 billion. The suit alleges Google has monopolised the ad stack “by buying companies up and down the chain, concurrently representing both ad buyers
The race to develop the first commercially available humanoid robot has been primarily concentrated in the US, until now. However, Mimic, a Switzerland-based startup, is challenging US dominance and joining the robotics race to be the first to take a robotic arm and humanoid hand combination to market using generative AI, as it raises a
South Korea is readying plans for a support package for chip investments and research worth more than 10 trillion won ($7.30 billion), the finance minister has said, after setting its sights on winning a “war” in the semiconductor industry. Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok said the government would soon announce details of the package, which targets
Food waste is so prolific in the USA that roughly one-third of the amount produced ends up in landfills rather than stomachs. That adds up to excess production, packaging, storage and delivery requirements, all negatively contributing to climate change. A recent study published in the journal Science found food production accounts for 26% of global
Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, has been sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US laws against money laundering at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Once considered the most powerful crypto industry figure, Zhao, known as “CZ,” is the second major crypto boss to be sentenced to prison.
Siemens Mobility is upgrading the entire 170km long S-bane network in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen to the highest grade of automation (GoA4 technology) to enable unattended train operations starting with the first phase in 2030. Siemens claims this will make the new S-bane the world’s largest automatic urban railway. Respective contracts have been signed with Banedanmark
The USA Senate voted by a wide margin late in favour of legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if its owner, the Chinese tech firm ByteDance, fails to divest the popular short video app over the next nine months to a year. Driven by widespread worries among USA lawmakers that China could
Google is changing in big ways with its Pixel and Android teams set to merge. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over at the Alphabet-owned company, CEO Sundar Pichai announced that there will be a substantial internal reorganisation. He even sent a memo highlighting that the teams working on Android, Chrome and Chrome OS will be
