Malaysian low-cost airline AirAsia intends to launch flying taxis as a new business line in 2022, Tony Fernandes, co-founder and CEO of AirAsia Group Berhad, which owns the carrier, told to Bloomberg. Fernandes estimated that the new service would be launched in about a year and a half. The flying cars will have at least four seats and will operate like a quadcopter, the CEO said. Fernandez did...

Chinese company Xiaomi is going to relaunch the social network Xiaomi Mi Talk, which will be an alternative to Clubhouse. A special feature of the updated Xiaomi Mi Talk will be that it will be available immediately on Android and iOS, while Clubhouse so far only runs on iOS. Earlier in February, Xiaomi announced closure of its Xiaomi Mi Talk service. Following this, the company's founder and...

Japan's largest liquefied hydrogen plant is to be built by the Japanese company Itochu and France's Air Liquide. The Nikkei newspaper reported about it on 26 February. According to the newspaper, the new plant will be able to produce about 30 tons of liquefied hydrogen per day, which should be enough to fill 42 thousand hydrogen cars.  At present, Japan produces around 44 tonnes of...

US telecoms companies Intel and Google Cloud have agreed to collaborate on 5G, Intel said in a press release. "Intel and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to develop a telecoms cloud reference architecture and integrated solutions for carriers to accelerate 5G deployment," the release said. Highlights of the collaboration include the launch of a new test environment to help operators...

Dialogs from some Clubhouse users leaked to a third-party site last weekend, the service has admitted. The company assured that it had blocked the hacker and was taking additional measures. One should not count on the privacy and security of conversations on the social network, experts warned. Online conversation service Clubhouse recorded a hacker attack last weekend, Bloomberg wrote with...

Apple is starting to work on the development of the 6G mobile communications technology. This is evidenced by several job announcements for engineers who will work with both 5G and 6G. Four of the vacancies relate to the company's San Diego and Silicon Valley offices, where Apple is developing wireless communications technology. "You'll have a rewarding and unique opportunity to make...

Consulting firm Accenture has prepared a new report presenting the key technology trends that will affect business in the coming years. According to the report's authors, leadership in digital adoption has now become particularly important, with the revenues of leaders growing five times faster than that of the laggards, compared with only two times the gap between 2015 and 2018.  In...

Jaguar Land Rover announced that by 2025, all vehicles produced under the Jaguar brand will be electric. The first full electric vehicle under another JLR brand, Land Rover, will be released in 2024, and the number of electric models of that brand will grow to six in the next few years. The company has promised that by 2030 all the cars it produces will have an electric version, and by 2039 JLR...

Tesla has added the TikTok app to its electric car software in China. For now, drivers will only be able to watch videos when they're not driving the car. US company Tesla, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has included integration of the TikTok app in a software update for electric cars sold in China, Electrec reported, citing a message from Tesla's official account on Chinese social network...