Japanese carmaker Nissan has announced the start of construction of the UK's largest battery factory for electric vehicles in Sunderland. The project, called EV36Zero, will involve an investment of £1 billion. The plant will be built as part of a three-way partnership between Nissan, Chinese...

Hackers stole $108.3 million in the first quarter of 2021 from users of various blockchain projects around the world, according to research from Atlas VPN, an information security company. In particular, cryptocurrency wallets and Ethereum blockchain exchanges were attacked the most. Overall,...

The increasing prevalence of the more contagious Delta coronavirus variant has prompted infectious disease experts in the United States to consider the requirement for a booster dose of the covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech, or Moderna mRNA-based vaccines for those Americans who have been...

IT companies, including Microsoft, Google and WeWork, have been busy creating technology to enable the use of holograms in everyday communication. This could help employers who are gradually bringing employees into the office from a remote location. Tech companies are thinking about creating...

German trains are to be completely switched to renewable energy sources. The emissions from Germany's rail system will be kept to a minimum by 2038, Deutsche Welle (DW) writes. Germany's main national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn (DB), intends to switch all locomotives running in the country to...

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor is investing more than 200 billion yen ($1.8 billion) to build two new plants to produce batteries for electric cars. This was reported by Nikkei Asia newspaper. One of Nissan's new plants will be set up in Japan and the other in the UK. Production at both sites is...

A predictive modelling study has revealed that a delaying of the second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine for people who are younger than 65 years could help in reducing the number of people dying of the disease.   Even as the Covid-19 pandemic is continuing in many parts of the world, the debate...

Nvidia will limit the ability to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency on its new RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060 Ti graphics cards. This is so that the graphics accelerators can "get into the hands of gamers" and not just to crypto-enthusiasts, the company explained. Nvidia will limit the ability to mine Ethereum...

Clubhouse has released the official beta version of the app for Android devices. For now, it is only available in the US, but users from other countries can pre-register on the social network's Google Play page to be notified when it is available in their region. Voice social network Clubhouse has...