Development of new technologies will not lead to technological unemployment, but workers and consumers will need new tools to protect their rights in order to resist manipulation attempts by corporations with increasingly large amounts of data. This issue has been widely discussed at the expert...

Israeli technology firm NSO Group has been sued by WhatsApp over allegations that the Israeli firm had used the Facebook-owned messaging service for undertaking campaigns of espionage on journalists, human rights activists and others.   Approximately 1,400 “target devices” were attempted to...

Is Google inching towards turning quantum computing into reality? Google reported that it has managed to successfully solve “a complex problem” in minutes with the help of “a quantum computer”. If the same problem was given to take the present computer generation even “most powerful supercomputer”...

Researchers have found traces of minerals in Mars that indicate the presence of salt lakes on the red planet which was subject to environmental changes. A study published in the “Nature Geoscience” journal claimed that Mars once possessed salt lakes which experienced “wet and dry phases” much...

A global survey of the structures of the University of MIT and the BCG group confirmed that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies entered the boundary zone of mass application in business in 2019. The vast majority of companies are confident that AI will play a big role in business; almost half...

German automobile concern Porsche aims to develop a new premium aircraft together with the American aviation company Boeing. According to the press service of Porsche, the new car can be operated in urban environment. The new device will be a flying car with vertical take-off and landing. As a...

South Korean Samsung Display Co. plans to spend 13.1 trillion won ($ 11 billion) on development and production of next-generation displays in the face of growing pressure from Chinese competitors, Bloomberg reports. During the company’s event, which was also attended by South Korean President Moon...

The ongoing trade and political conflict between the United States and China, in particular the sanctions against Huawei, made both US authorities and American businesses try to find an alternative to the Chinese telecommunications company. According to British and Chinese media, European companies...

UPS logistics company received permission from the US Civil Aviation Administration to launch commercial delivery of goods throughout the country using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The courier service was the first company in the country to receive a full license to carry out such activities,...