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Amazon introduces smart shopping carts - 07/16/2020

Amazon introduced smart shopping carts for offline stores. The carts independently scan the goods in the basket and automatically debit money from the buyer's card upon exiting. Amazon, owned by the world's richest billionaire Jeff Bezos, has introduced smart shopping carts in supermarkets, CNBC reported. They are called Dash Carts and will appear in a new Amazon grocery store in Los Angeles,...

Novavax receives $ 1.6B from US government to launch COVID-19 vaccine - 07/08/2020

The US biotechnology company Novavax received a $ 1.6 billion grant from the US government to develop and commercialize the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine. The company is expected to produce about 100 million doses of the vaccine, for now called NVX-CoV2373, by January 2021. To date, the company, founded in 1987, has successfully completed two of the three phases of clinical trials of its...

UK will invest $ 500M to rescue rival of Elon Musk's Starlink - 07/07/2020

The UK government will become a co-owner of OneWeb, which is creating a satellite network to access the Internet. In March, OneWeb filed for bankruptcy. The project is a direct competitor to the similar idea of SpaceX company. Joint venture between the UK government and the Indian company Bharti Global Ltd. won a tender to buy a stake in the British satellite system operator OneWeb, according to...

Falcon 9 delivers latest generation GPS satellite to orbit for US Air Force - 07/01/2020

Falcon 9 heavy rocket successfully launched the third satellite of the third generation global positioning system GPS III into the regular orbit for the US Air Force, said SpaceX company. The launch was carried out on Tuesday at 16:10, the time of the US East Coast from the 40th launch complex at the launch site at Cape Canaveral in Florida. After about an hour and a half, the satellite was...

Twitter warns of possible user data leak - 06/24/2020

Twitter Inc. microblogging service sent a letter to users informing about a possibility of leakage of personal data of business clients, BBC News reports. "In an email to its customers, Twitter said other people might have access to personal information," the BBC said. The message states that personal data includes email addresses, phone numbers and the last 4 digits of credit card numbers....

Airbus wins ESA contract to develop Sample Fetch Mars Rover - 06/18/2020

Airbus Defense and Space has won a new contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop the Sample Fetch Rover, the corporation's press service said. The program for the return of soil samples from Mars is being carried out jointly by NASA and ESA. NASA's Perseverance rover will collect samples of the planet’s soil and rocks and leave them on its surface in small metal tubes. In 2026,...

Nestle comes up with new pet food that cuts human allergies to cats - 06/16/2020

Nestle has found a way to stand out in the increasingly competitive pet products market. The company launched sales of cat food, which it claims to mitigate allergic reactions to cat hair. Nestle points out that it is not the fur itself that causes the allergy, but the cat's saliva protein that gets on it. According to the company, one in five adults in the world is allergic to the protein. A...

US tech giants are refusing to supply face recognition technology to the police - 06/15/2020

Last week, three large high-tech companies at once - IBM, Amazon and Microsoft - sharply changed their position on the development and use of technologies for face recognition by the police. Until recently, only human rights activists opposed it, but companies quietly sold these services to the authorities. Now, however, Amazon has introduced a one-year moratorium on the technology’s use by the...

Volkswagen delays release of ID.3 electric car due to software problems - 06/11/2020

Volkswagen has announced that it will postpone the delivery of its flagship ID.3 electric car to customers until September due to software problems. The company will begin to take pre-orders for the first 30,000 electric vehicles from June 17, but deliveries of the early version of the electric vehicle without a number of characteristics will only begin in September. Version ID.3 with a full...

Chinese mobile operators set to deploy over 550,000 5G stations in 2020 - 06/08/2020

Chinese mobile operators intend to install more than 550 thousand 5G base stations across the country by the end of the year, the PRC Ministry of Industry and Information said on Saturday. "The number of 5G base stations in our country is increasing by about 10 thousand weekly," the ministry said in a statement. It is reported that at the end of May this year, China Mobile's mobile operator...
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