Apple has ordered 20 per cent more new iPhones from suppliers than it has usually ordered in recent years, sources told Bloomberg. The new smartphones will feature upgraded processors, cameras and displays, they said. Apple has asked suppliers to produce 90 million next-generation iPhones this year, sources told Bloomberg. The agency notes that this is 20% higher than the figure the company has...

Visa cryptocurrency card users have spent more than $1 billion on goods and services in the first six months of this year, Vasant Prabhu, the payments company's chief financial officer, told CNBC. The manager noted that the current figure is much higher than the amount spent in 2019 and 2020, but did not give specific figures. Visa cryptocurrency cardholders can currently spend their savings in...

British scientist and founder of the Web Tim Berners-Lee has sold the source code for the WWW technology in the form of an NFT (non-interchangeable token), auction house Sotheby's has revealed. The token was sold for $5.43 million. The token form included an archive of the source code, which dates back to 1990 and 1991, an animated version of the code, an image of Mr Berners-Lee's code and...

Saudi Aramco, the Saudi oil state-owned company, has become disillusioned with hydrogen as a quick substitute for conventional hydrocarbons. It believes that large-scale gas production is unlikely to begin this decade, Saudi Aramco’s chief technology officer, Ahmad Al Khowaiter, told Arab News. According to him, there will be no large-scale investment in the industry until at least 2030, when...

India's Reliance Industries, the operator of the world's largest oil refining complex, intends to invest $10 billion (Rs 750 billion) in renewable energy over the next three years. This was announced at the annual shareholders' meeting by the company's CEO Mukesh Ambani. The corporation aims to go green by 2035. "The fossil fuel era, which has been fuelling economic growth across the world for...

Amazon has announced 14 new renewable power purchase agreements in North America and Europe, making it the largest US corporate purchaser of renewable energy. The company now has a total of 232 renewable energy projects, including 85 solar and wind projects and 147 solar panel projects on shops and offices around the world. Including previous agreements, Amazon's total involvement in creating...

Leica Camera, the camera and lens specialist company, unveiled the Leitz Phone 1, its first-ever smartphone. The first market for the smartphone will be Japan - the Leica Leitz Phone 1 will only be available from Softbank. The device, which will start taking pre-orders on June 18, will cost around $1,700. The smartphone is built on Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 888 platform with 5G support....

British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC (part of Tata Motors) has announced the forthcoming testing of a prototype hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle based on the Land Rover Defender. This is part of the manufacturer's programme to reduce exhaust emissions to zero by 2036. The project will be part-funded by the UK government. Trials will start later this year. In February, the automaker...

Elon Musk's company will resume accepting bitcoins as a means of payment if the method of obtaining the famous cryptocurrency becomes environmentally friendly. "Tesla has only sold about 10% of its assets to confirm that the company's Bitcoin investments can easily be liquidated without a change in the market. When there is confirmation of reasonable (around 50%) clean energy use by miners with a...