Tue 16 February 2021: Struggling luxury car brand Jaguar will be fully electric by 2025, the British company said Monday as it outlined a plan to phase out internal combustion engines. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which is owned by Indian conglomerate Tata Motors, hopes the move will help turn around the fortunes of the 86-year-old […]
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Mon 15 February 2021: Billionaire Elon Musk said on Sunday that he supports major holders of the meme-based digital currency dogecoin selling most of their coins, adding that he felt too much concentration in dogecoin was the “real issue”. “If major Dogecoin holders sell most of their coins, it will get my full support. Too […]
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Sun 14 February 2021: Bitcoin hit a new record high and approached $50,000 on Sunday, building on its record rally as Wall Street and Main Street increasingly adopt the world’s biggest cryptocurrency. Bitcoin recently stood at $48,800 on Sunday morning, up 3.2%. It had traded as high as $49,714 earlier in the day. The cryptocurrency […]
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Sun 14 February 2021: Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on Sunday shared the first picture of Mars’ surface captured by the United Arab Emirates’ “Hope” probe. “The first picture of Mars captured by the first-ever Arab probe in history, 25,000 km above the Red Planet’s surface,” the Sheikh Mohammed, who is also Vice […]
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Sat 13 February 2021: Twitter chief Jack Dorsey on Friday put out word that he and rap mogul Jay-Z are creating a fund devoted to making bitcoin digital money “the internet’s currency.” Dorsey, who is also founder and chief of financial services and mobile payments firm Square, said in a tweet that he and Jay-Z […]
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Thu 11 February 2021: A Chinese spacecraft has entered Mars’s orbit on a mission to land a rover and collect data on underground water and possible signs of ancient life. “China’s probe Tianwen-1 successfully entered the orbit around Mars on Wednesday after a nearly seven-month voyage from Earth,” the Xinhua News Agency said. In May […]
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Wed 10 February 2021: Facebook is facing a lawsuit after it was accused of losing personal data belonging to over a million users in England and Wales. The legal action, undertaken by the law firm Hausfield and filed at the High Court in London on Tuesday, argues that the social media giant allowed third-party groups […]
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Wed 10 February 2021: The Kalashnikov group, which produces the AK-47 assault rifle, is planning to target hipsters and young people with a gadget-packed shotgun, its director said on Tuesday. Kalashnikov’s director Dmitry Tarasov said the group had developed a semi-automatic 12-gauge shotgun dubbed the МР-155 Ultima that has a built-in computer and can teach […]
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Wed 10 February 2021: Apple more than doubled the road testing of its self-driving cars in 2020 and appears to have improved its autonomous vehicle technology compared to past years. The Cupertino tech giant’s self-driving vehicles drove 18,805 miles on California roads in 2020, up from 7,544 miles in 2019, according to a report filed with […]
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Wed 10 February 2021: Turkey unveiled its national space program, a roadmap based on realistic and competitive goals, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. “The national space program will carry our country to an upper league in the global space race,” Erdogan stressed during the introductory meeting in the capital Ankara. Noting that the […]
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