US Uber Technologies filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Department of Transportation in connection with the authorities’ demand to provide information about the whereabouts of users of a real-time bike rental service. City officials say they need this data to better monitor road situations and...

The search giant collaborated with the U.S. government to develop a website dedicated to important information about COVID-19 outbreak. Google, a company of Alphabet Inc, reported that it launched a website mainly keeping the focus on the United States which will provide “information about...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that young people are susceptible to the coronavirus which can also can sicken or kill them and therefore they should avoid mingling together and prevent the spread of the virus to older people or others who are more vulnerable to contract the disease....

When the whole world begins to wear masks due to the coronavirus, face recognition technologies may be less effective. However, a company from China managed to bring accuracy of recognition of even a half-open face to 95% or even higher. Hanwang company has installed more than 2 million face...

Walmart intends to launch a 5G network in its stores. This will be one of the steps to create "supercenters" that provide not only goods, but also services. 5G may be useful for the world's largest network, including for medical services. US retailer Walmart is in talks with Verizon operator to...

SpaceX to launch itself with a faster pace into building of Starships. SpaceX is a “private rocket company” built by Elon Musk which has received green signal for building “a research and manufacturing plant for its deep-space Starship project” in Los Angeles’ Port over a “tract of vacant land”....

The blockchain technology may become the basis for the transition to digital money, JPMorgan Bank believes. In the bank’s opinion, blockchain will allow transactions to be carried out almost in real time, but it is still at the initial stage in the financial market. Emergence of blockchain, on the...

Tesla could introduce lithium batteries for its passenger EVs as part of Musk’s promise of reducing the use of cobalt batteries. Tesla is carrying out talks with CATL. The discussions have reached advance stage whereby the former is likely to use the latter’s batteries which doesn’t contain any...

Last Monday, the US presidential administration introduced a draft budget that provides for a nearly two-fold – up to almost $ 1 billion - increase in the allocation for the study and application of quantum computer technologies. In January, it became known that financial corporations JP Morgan...