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Russia announced on Monday that it had launched a hypersonic missile from a nuclear submarine for the first time – one of the Zircon class missiles President Vladimir Putin and his military officers see as potential game-changers.  It is pitch black in the video when, suddenly, after about ten seconds,…

Like an aging rock star seeking to reach a new audience, Microsoft is betting Windows 11 will help it connect with a new generation. Why it matters: Microsoft could once count on a huge portion of the computing market automatically choosing Windows because their business demanded it or they needed…

Organisations letting employees work from home due to the Covid pandemic has triggered a massive shift towards cloud computing. Businesses and organisations have been forced to go for digital transformation in order to make their products and services available on the go. “With more and more services being delivered online…

The same journalism organization that leaked the Panama Papers has uncovered a new trove of 11.9 million documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, that contain explosive details about how global elites and billionaires hide their assets. Revelations from the leak included that a woman who gave birth to a child reportedly…

The secret deals and hidden assets of the world’s most powerful politicians and billionaires have been revealed in the biggest leak of financial offshore data in history. More than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials’ undercover dealings have been exposed in a joint investigation by BBC Panorama…

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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian government to look at curtailing spending from the state rainy-day fund on Friday (Oct 1), after the finance ministry said the global shift away from oil and gas could jeopardise Russian state finances within a decade. Russia now has around US$190 billion in…

Government intervention, poor usability, high network fees – which one of these poses the most significant threat to Bitcoin? The answer may be none of them. Although the Bitcoin network is incredibly secure under the current condition of computers, there’s an even greater threat looming overhead. Quantum computers have the…

In 2018, researchers at the forefront of an entirely new approach to building quantum computers published, in the journal Nature, what looked to be a landmark achievement. Existing quantum computers are notoriously fragile, their quantum bits — qubits — prone to incurring random errors. But if the qubits could be…

As Amazon’s executives took the stage one after another yesterday to introduce the world to the company’s “next big leaps forward,” a sense of deja vu crept up on me. It only grew stronger as the event progressed, with many new Amazon products seeming incredibly familiar. The company has been…