Russia’s war in Ukraine has sparked a surge in demand for weapons and vehicles, with many allies sending supplies to Ukraine to help the country defend itself. But the war has also seen a surge in demand for inflatable decoy vehicles and weapons – with one company’s business up 30 per cent last year. Czech […]

For the first time since Internet voting was introduced in Estonia, more digital votes have been cast in this month’s general election than physical paper ballots.  The Baltic nation introduced i-voting in 2005 as part of a drive to push e-government and digital services at all levels of society, meaning residents can open a bank […]

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has backtracked after publicly mocking a fired Twitter employee who asked for clarification about the status of his employment at the company. Amid the chaos of the tech billionaire’s takeover of the social media platform, thousands of staff members have been fired without warning in multiple rounds of layoffs. One such […]

Money is the biggest concern preventing young adults in the UK from starting a family, according to a new survey. More than half (59 per cent) of respondents cited financial worries as the number one reason why they would consider delaying or deciding not to have children. The research, commissioned by Apryl, a Berlin-based fertility […]

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faced new fraud charges on Thursday, as prosecutors accused him of cheating thousands of investors out of billions of dollars while casting himself as a trustworthy “saviour of the cryptocurrency industry”. New charges, including securities fraud and conspiracy fraud counts, were unveiled with the unsealing of the refreshed indictment in Manhattan […]

Swiss citizens will get the chance to try to ensure their economy never becomes cashless, a pressure group said, after collecting enough signatures on Monday to trigger a popular vote on the issue. The Free Switzerland Movement (FBS) says cash is playing a shrinking role in many economies, as electronic payments become the default for […]

Depending on who you ask, some say that quantum computers could either break the Internet, rendering pretty much every data security protocol obsolete, or allow us to compute our way out of the climate crisis. These hyper-powerful devices, an emerging technology that exploits the properties of quantum mechanics, are much buzzed about. Only last month, […]

We’ve all heard of Elon Musk, the somewhat eccentric, technology-loving businessman. The billionaire has recently made headlines over his ongoing Twitter takeover bid but the main reason he came to our attention in the first place was by putting electric vehicles back on the map with his company Tesla. Sales of electric vehicles reached an […]

In July, inflation in the eurozone reached an all-time high of 8.9 per cent. That’s four times higher than the same period last year when it was at 2.2 per cent. All over Europe, the effects of rising inflation are already being felt as food and petrol prices soar. The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in […]

DeFi, short for decentralised finance, is another buzzword that has entered our lexicon, joining the likes of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchain and the metaverse. So, what is it? Today, most of the financial transactions in the economy are digital. We’re still using banknotes and coins on occasions but it’s marginal. It’s a logical step that […]