Technology

Have you been traveling on public transportation, such as the bus or train, more regularly as of late? Or, have you been devoting extra time to booking a ride through your mobile app, preparing yourself for fare surges and longer waiting periods, and then rushing out the door to meet your ride before the grace period expires? The ride-hailing industry …

Shares of once-buzzing technology companies have been in freefall this year, with some dropping as much as 70 percent as a result of an uncertain climate and concerns about their profitability. The share prices of technology companies that did well during the COVID-19 pandemic have been hit particularly hard. One example of this is the streaming service Netflix, which has …

Can a Bentley be driven like a sports car? Evidently, yes. However, you will be tempted to do so, given that the Bentley Flying Spur is a furious V8 powerhouse. She is an absolute hoot behind the wheel. We’ve never characterized agility as addicting, but here we are, smugly seated behind the wheel and oblivious to the vehicle’s 2.3-tonne mass. …

On Wednesday (August 10), Samsung presented its most recent lineup of smartphones, along with two redesigned smart watches and an improved pair of earbuds. CNA Lifestyle was able to get an up-close and personal experience with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4 at the tech company’s Galaxy Unpacked event in New York City. During the …

On Friday, Chinese state media CCTV stated that the country has successfully launched a pilot reusable spacecraft using its Long March-2F carrier rocket. According to CCTV, the unidentified spacecraft that was launched from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center will return to a planned landing site after operating in orbit for some time in order to provide technical validations for reuses. …

Live video captured the launch of South Korea’s first-ever lunar orbiter, which took place from the United States on Thursday (August 4). The mission will last for one year and will consist of observing the Moon. The cargo will include a novel disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Elon Musk’s aerospace business SpaceX transported the Danuri spacecraft, whose name …

The market has been thrown into a tailspin as a result of Elon Musk’s recent highly publicized back and forth with Twitter. Despite Twitter’s initial resistance to the business magnate, the two parties ultimately came to an agreement in April that valued US$44 billion. The deal resulted in a premium over the then-current share price of Twitter equal to 38%. …

An official of higher rank stated on Sunday, July 31st, that Indonesia has temporarily unblocked access to the online payment business PayPal in order to permit consumers to retrieve their money. This comes after the country’s suspension of some online services and games resulted in a public outcry. The Indonesian communications ministry disabled PayPal, the website for the search engine …

On Saturday, July 30, a Chinese rocket crashed down to Earth over the Indian Ocean, but NASA stated that Beijing had not supplied the “specific trajectory information” that was required to determine where possible debris would fall. The United States Space Command reported that the Long March 5B rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean at approximately 12:45 p.m. …

According to a story that was published in the Platformer tech newsletter on Thursday, Instagram is going to stop developing some features that users have protested against and argued make the social network too similar to TikTok on July 28th. This week, some of the most vocal users who posted messages on social media asked the corporation behind Instagram to …