Tag: Jeff Bezos
Tech Digest daily roundup: What will Elon Musk takeover mean for Twitter?
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has asked whether Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter will give China “a bit of leverage” over the platform. Twitter is blocked in China but Mr Musk‘s electric car business Tesla […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Blue Origin loses NASA court case
A judge has dismissed Jeff Bezos’s private spaceflight company Blue Origin’s lawsuit against NASA over the awarding of a moon-landing contract to SpaceX. In a single-page ruling, which Blue Origin has […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: 90yo Shatner emotional after ‘profound’ space trip
Star Trek actor William Shatner has become the oldest person to reach space, calling his trip “the most profound experience”. The 90-year-old blasted off from Texas at 3.49pm UK time […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: iPhone 13 numbers slashed due to chip shortage
Apple’s shares dropped on Tuesday following reports it could slash its iPhone 13 production targets due to the ongoing global computer chip shortage. The electronic giant had expected to make […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: AI can tell if it’s going to rain in next 2 hours
Artificial intelligence can tell whether it is going to rain in the next two hours, research suggests. Scientists at Google-owned London AI lab DeepMind and the University of Exeter partnered […]
Tech Digest daily round up: Jimmy Fallon roasts Bezos over phallic rocket
Jimmy Fallon has roasted billionaire Jeff Bezos over his recent trip to space in a rocket made by the Amazon founder’s space company Blue Origin. Many have noted that the rocket, which is called […]
Tech Digest daily round up: Jeff Bezos space flight
Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s richest man, will today take a historic leap for private space flight when he is blasted into space aboard his New Shepard rocket. […]
Tech Digest daily round up: Top journalists ‘targeted with phone malware’, reports claim
Rights activists, journalists and lawyers around the world have been targeted with phone malware sold to authoritarian governments by an Israeli surveillance firm, media reports say. They are on a […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: Royal Marines uses drone swarms in battle drills
In a first for the UK’s armed forces, Royal Marines have used drone swarms to assist in battle drills. Autonomous machines were present in the air, on the sea and […]
Tech Digest daily round up: REvil group demands $70m ransom for cyberattack
The gang behind a “colossal” ransomware attack has demanded $70m (£50.5m) paid in Bitcoin in return for a “universal decryptor” that it says will unlock the files of all victims. […]
