Internet traffic in Europe and North America increased by 30-50% since the beginning of the year, video conferencing traffic grew by 350-700%, DDoS attacks rose by 50%, and gaming traffic increased by 100-150%, says the annual report of Finnish company Nokia - Network Intelligence Report, which analyzes trends in network traffic and consumption on the Internet in 2020. With the introduction of...

Shares of the world's largest manufacturer of batteries for electric cars, Korean company LG Chem, fell by 4% in price during today's trading. Electric cars with its batteries have received a major recall twice in the last two months. The day before, General Motors announced the recall of 68,700 Chevrolet Bolt cars due to several battery fire cases.  According to The Detroit News, there...

The number of mobile game downloads in the first seven months of 2020 increased by 45% compared to the same period in 2019, with 32% growth a year earlier, reports the analytical marketing company AppsFlyer. The growth was particularly strong between March and May, when quarantine measures were in effect in many countries. From February to August, revenue from apps purchasing increased by 67%....

China Construction Bank, one of the largest banks in the world, will issue digital bonds that can be bought for bitcoins. This can be the world's first public offering of blockchain securities available to investors around the world. The value of the securities starts at $100 and the volume of the bonds will reach $3 billion. China Construction Bank will place bonds on the exchange, which private...

The third test suborbital flight of the VSS Unity space plane will take place by the end of November, informed the press service of Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic company has developed a space plan VSS Unity for tourist suborbital flights. The first suborbital flight of VSS Unity took place in December 2018, the second - in March 2019. Virgin Galactic has announced that the third test flight...

Elon Musk stated that in February-March 2021, the Starlink satellite network will be launched in a test version in Europe. He also said that this week several thousand invitations to the beta version of Starlink will be sent in the United States and Canada. The test version of the satellite network, which provides broadband Internet access, was launched in the northern states of the U.S. and...

American company Apple has accelerated the development of its own Internet search engine to replace Google's search engine. This was reported by the Financial Times with reference to sources in the industry. Google is currently paying Apple about $8-12 billion a year to install the Google search engine as the default search engine on all iOS devices manufactured by Apple. Competition authorities...

Currently, more than 60% of all city buses in China are replaced with electric buses, which is 20% more than in 2015, Xinhua News Agency reported. According to data provided by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the PRC, these replacement measures were implemented as part of the greening program of the country's transport system during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), which includes...

The vaccine, being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, produces robust COVID-19 immunity in older adults, according to the Financial Times (FT). According to the publication, which cites its own sources in the company, blood tests for immunogenicity, carried out on a subgroup of elderly participants, were similar to those taken from healthy adults aged 18 to 55 years.  It has...