On Wednesday, Covid-19 infections hit new highs in some areas of Europe, making the continent the epicenter of a pandemic that has triggered additional travel restrictions and spurred health authorities to advocate for more use of booster vaccine doses.   Even as winter grips Europe and...

Online broker Robinhood reported that hackers managed to get hold of some of its customers' personal data on 3 November. The attacker pretended to be a customer service employee during a phone call and gained access to some of the service's systems. Robinhood discovered that an unauthorised third...

Microsoft, following Facebook, set to build its own metaworld. In the first phase, the company will add new features to its Teams video conferencing service that will allow users to share PowerPoint presentations and other files in a virtual workspace. Microsoft has decided to add three-dimensional...

Finnish fast-food chain Hesburger will donate waste cooking fats to renewable diesel, announced the companyy. "Renewable diesel producer Neste and Hesburger will actively cooperate in the circular economy.  Waste cooking fats from more than 300 Hesburger restaurants in Finland and the Baltic...

The US pharmaceutical company Merck has applied to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a license to sell its COVID-19 tablets. The drug in question is an experimental drug called molnupiravir, which Merck has been working on with another US pharmaceutical company, Ridgeback...

Google intends to require 150 million of its users to be two-factor authenticated. This will also affect the 2 million registered creators on YouTube, the company says on its own blog. "By the end of 2021, we plan to automatically connect 150 million Google users to two-factor authentication and...

US payments system Visa is working on a 'Universal Payment Channel' (UPC) designed to enable interoperability between different blockchain networks for the transfer of stablercoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDC), according to the company’s press release. "Visa's research and development...

US carmaker Ford said it will invest $11.4bn with South Korea's SK Innovation to build plants in the US to produce batteries for electric cars, as well as a new vehicle production site. Ford itself will invest $7bn; the company says it is the largest single manufacturing investment of any US...

According to Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Moderna Inc Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel believes the coronavirus epidemic might be ended in a year due to increasing vaccine manufacturing.   "If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months,...