Bitcoin jumps more than 13 per cent after El Salvador passes law to adopt it as legal tender
SAN SALVADOR, Jun 10, 2021, CNBC. Bitcoin surged on Thursday, a day after El Salvador…
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Websites begin to work again after major breakage
LONDON, Jun 8, 2021, BBC. A major outage has affected a number of high profile…
Global chip shortage to last until at least mid-2022: Manufacturer
SINGAPORE, Jun 7, 2021, Financial Times. The global chip shortage disrupting the car industry and…
Apple uses more suppliers from China than Taiwan for first time, data shows
BEIJING, Jun 3, 2021, The Guardian. Apple used more suppliers from China last year than…
China completes another part of its own space station paving the way for astronauts to live there
GUANGZHOU, May 31, 2021, CNBC. China has completed another major part of its own space…
‘Hokkaido Spaceport’ to be built in small northern Japan town
TAIKI, May 30, 2021, The Mainichi. The municipal government of this small town in northern…
Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with OneWeb satellites launched from Vostochny spaceport
VOSTOPCHNY SPACEPORT, May 28, 2021, TASS. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat booster and…
AI project developed to identify ancient Chinese books overseas
CHENGDU, May 24, 2021, Xinhua. An artificial intelligence (AI) project has been developed to help…
China’s first Mars rover starts exploring red planet
BEIJING, May 22, 2021, Xinhua. China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing…
China’s probe lands on Mars
BEIJING, May 15, 2021, Xinhua. The lander carrying China’s first Mars rover has successfully touched…
Tesla’s Model Y slumps in China sales rankings
BEIJING, May 14, 2021, CNBC. Sales of Tesla’s newest model for the Chinese market lost…
Google enters cross-border payments market
NEW DELHI, May 12, 2021, The Hindu. The California-based company has partnered with Western Union…
Alibaba’s Ant Group will let more users test China’s digital yuan
BEIJING, May 10, 2021, CNBC. Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, is becoming one of…
[Analytics] China-US tensions move to space as rocket debris heads for Earth
Finger-pointing over the growing problem of space junk is only going to get worse as…
Out-of-control Chinese rocket expected to crash back to Earth around May 8
BEIJING, May 7, 2021, CNet. It sounds like the plot of a Bruce Willis movie:…