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Ransomware Attacks count rises with Comparis.ch Breach

Swiss-based insurance and mortgage comparison company Comparis.ch has fallen victim to ransomware attack on Wednesday and shut down its website on Thursday out of fear of customer data breach. Comparis.ch is a price and product comparison platforms in Switzerland, specializing in products of health insurers prices, insurance companies’ prices, alongside banks and telecom providers. On […]

Volvo to resume production at Virginia plant despite strike

Volvo Trucks North America says it will restart production at a plant in southwestern Virginia on Monday despite an ongoing strike and the lack of a labor deal between the company and a union representing nearly 3,000 workers. The company said in a news release that it will implement terms and conditions of a tentative […]

Stellantis: 98% of models to be electric or hybrid by 2025

Stellantis is a little late to the global electric vehicle party, but on Thursday it pledged to catch up and pass its competitors. CEO Carlos Tavares says that by 2025, 98% of its models in Europe and North America will have fully electric or plug-in gas-electric hybrid versions. He says the company that combined Fiat […]

TikTok Launches Pilot for Video Resume

TikTok launched on Wednesday an avant-garde pilot program that allows users to upload video resumes for jobs based in the U.S. through a new feature, TikTok Resumes. The culture fueling platform announced the launch of its new tool, resurfacing from the content that appears on the platform organically, such as #CareerTok. This step, if succeeds, […]

EU fines German car makers $1B over emission collusion

The European Union handed down $1 billion in fines to major German car manufacturers Thursday, saying they colluded to limit the development and rollout of car emission-control systems. Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen along with its Audi and Porsche divisions avoided competing on technology to restrict pollution from gasoline and diesel passenger cars, the EU’s executive […]

Huawei signs 4G patent license agreement with Volkswagen

Chinese telecom Huawei agreed earlier this week to sign a 4G patent license agreement with the German car manufacturer Volkswagen. The decision – which joins two U.S. sanctioned companies — is considered one of the biggest patent licensing agreement Huawei provides within the auto making industry. As per the deal, the telecom titan’s 4G mobile […]

Personal 3D printers market to reach $5.44 billion by 2030

Personal 3D printers have been on the rise for quite some time now, as their uses have been leveraged in a plethora of ways to produce anything from dental supplies to 3D figurines; this goes to show the versatility of the technology. According to a new report by MarketsandMarkets, the global personal 3D printers industry […]

Connectivity of choice: Why you should prioritise FTTP

Back in 2001, internet connection speeds were estimated to be just 0.1Mbps. In fewer than 20 years, broadband and connectivity have changed in ways we could never have imagined. And the evolution is far from over. Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) takes the fibre optic connection directly from the local exchange into a business’ building, […]

QAnon has receded from social media -- but it's just hiding

On the face of it, you might think that the QAnon conspiracy has largely disappeared from big social media sites. But that’s not quite the case. True, you’re much less likely to find popular QAnon catchphrases like “great awakening,” “the storm” or “trust the plan” on Facebook these days. Facebook and Twitter have removed tens […]

Twitter adheres to India’s IT Act

Twitter has shown a willingness to fully comply with India’s recent social media regulations following the state’s IT Act, as the social networking platform will establish an Indian liaison in the upcoming weeks. In the never-ending feud between the microblogging platform and the Indian government, in the wake of the recent stand-off between Twitter and […]