Volkswagen’s sports car maker Porsche could develop a flying passenger vehicle to compete with rivals in a possible market for urban air taxis and ride-sharing services, Porsche sales chief Detlev von Platen told a German magazine.
“That would really make sense. If I drive from (the Porsche plant in) Zuffenhausen to Stuttgart airport, I need at least half an hour, if I’m lucky. Flying would take only three and a half minutes,” Automobilwoche quoted von Platen as saying.
Truecaller Opens Sub Saharan Headquarters In Kenya
GSM number identity app Truecaller, which is quite popular amongst users all over Africa, has set-up its sub Saharan African headquarters in Kenya.
The Swedish app, which also has a mobile spam-blocking feature has over 250 million users worldwide and a fifth of those in Africa, has chosen Nairobi for its main base of operations in the region.
Truecaller is the world’s biggest verified mobile phone community dedicated to helping users to block spam calls and messages through the use of a mobile app.
Digital Currencies Cause Death - Bill Gates
Crypto-currencies are killing people in a "fairly direct way", Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said.
He was referring to the way digital currencies like Bitcoin are used to buy drugs like synthetic opioid fentanyl.
In an "ask me anything" session on news website Reddit, the billionaire said that the anonymity of digital currencies meant they were linked to terrorist funding and money laundering.
Some criticised him, saying he was ill-informed about the technology.
Comcast Outbids Fox, Disney For Sky
U.S. cable giant Comcast has offered $31 billion for Sky, threatening a plan hatched by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Bob Iger’s Walt Disney to seize control of Europe’s biggest pay-TV group.
The world’s biggest entertainment company and owner of NBC and Universal Pictures, said on Tuesday it had proposed to offer 12.50 pounds per share for Britain’s Sky, significantly more than the 10.75 pounds Fox has agreed to pay for it.
Disney has agreed to buy Sky from 21st Century Fox, along with other assets, in a separate $52 billion follow-up deal.
Jaguar Reveals First Electric Suv I-Pace
Jaguar Land Rover launched its first ever electric car, the 2019 I-PACE crossover Sport Utility Vehicle which aims to cmpete with Tesla’s larger Model X SUV. The launch demonstrated the incredible performance of the I-Pace as it was pitted against two Tesla Model Xs in a 0-60mph and back to zero challenge in footage from Mexico City.
Astronauts Return To Earth After 5-Month Stay In International Space Station
A capsule carrying two U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed in snowy Kazakhstan on Wednesday after a five-and-a-half month mission, a NASA TV live broadcast showed. A capsule carrying two U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed in snowy Kazakhstan on Wednesday after a five-and-a-half month mission, a NASA TV live broadcast showed.
Tech Companies To Take Mobile Phone Network To The Moon
As part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission, mobile phone network will for the first time be taken to the moon next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth.
Tech companies including Vodafone Germany, network equipment maker Nokia and carmaker Audi on Tuesday, hinted that they are working together to support the mission, 50 years after NASA astronauts first landed on the moon.