While claiming that the most recent data breach from its servers by hackers was not as severe as had been feared earlier, Marriott International conceded on Friday that the passport numbers for roughly five million guests were not encrypted by its Starwood hotel unit. The identified passport...

A newly released list shows that eighty video games have been approved by the Chinese authorities to make an online appearance. On Saturday, December 29, 2018, China gave its approval on releasing eighty video games online. This approval severs the freeze that was put on for “most of the year” on...

The researchers at MIT have proposed a new system which leaves the lithium battery storage system behind. The scientists at MIT have come up with a system designed to “store renewable energy” like wind and solar energy for supplying it back to the electric grid when required. The “Energy and...

Tesla owner and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk unveiled an underground transportation tunnel suing which it would be possible for people to travel much faster than they would via subways.   At the same time, the entrepreneur also unveiled the concept of the autonomous cars which...

Sales of the Toyota Prius, the world's first mass-produced hybrid car, have been falling for several years. For the first 11 months of 2018, they fell by 23.2%, according to CNBC. The Japanese automaker hopes that the launch of the updated Toyota Prius will revive demand, but it is not known...

In 2019, the global segment of smart speakers will show a record sales growth in the history of any devices connected to the Internet, according to Deloitte. The segment of smart speakers in 2019 will show the fastest revenue growth in the entire history of devices with Internet access, according...

Scientists are racing to work on quantum cryptography, which is the only one that can withstand quantum computers in protecting digital information from hacking. As the newspaper The New York Times notes, Chinese scientists have clearly achieved greater success in this area compared to their...

Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users in Q3 2018 increased by 1.4% compared with the same period in 2017 and amounted to 389 million units, Gartner research company reported. In many ways, the growth occurred thanks to Chinese brands. According to experts, in July-September 2018, global...

New study shows that crypto-currency mining could hasten global warming. The “Nature Climate Change” journal has published a new study which revealed that the mining and trading business of crypto-currencies including bitcoin could contribute to the global warming by two degrees Celsius by the year...