This article is an on-site version of our #techAsia newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Wednesday Hi, Kenji from Tokyo this week, now under Covid-19 home quarantine. We have another scoop on Apple from Nikkei Asia for our Big Story. A Chinese state-owned company has become a…
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During France’s battle against Covid-19, fast-growing tech start-up Doctolib was thrust into the spotlight when the government enlisted its platform to help run the national vaccination campaign. The seven-year-old company was already familiar to many in France who use its slick blue-and-white smartphone app to book visits with about 300,000 doctors, dentists, and therapists. Valued…
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Ilya Sachkov did not hold back, even though Russia’s prime minister was watching him on a panel starring the heads of the country’s top tech companies. The 35-year-old co-founder of Group-IB, which specialises in investigating cyber crimes such as hacking and online fraud, poured scorn on the Kremlin for turning a blind eye to the…
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The Tales Of The Walking Dead spinoff anthology series has been greenlit and is coming to AMC in 2022. The network announced the spinoff series was in development back in 2020, but few details have been revealed since. The show was originally touted as featuring new and old characters from The Walking Dead universe, exploring narratives that will include…
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The archenemy of Thanos in Marvel Comics, Adam Warlock’s origin and powers will be an interesting story to see unfold in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Following a handful of rumors saying that The Revenant actor Will Poulter has been cast as the MCU’s Adam Warlock, Guardians on the Galaxy Vol. 3 director James Gunn confirmed the…
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This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in Star Trek, will have to wait another day to boldly go into space, due to high winds in West Texas delaying the launch of the…
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This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good evening from Paris, where President Emmanuel Macron’s decision not to renew the mandate of France’s antitrust chief Isabelle de Silva has baffled many in and out of government and has sparked…
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A much heralded part of Ethereum 2.0 is the transition to Proof Of Stake. It may happen during 2021 or 2022. With Proof Of Stake, users validate transactions based on the number of coins they hold. For example, the more ETH a user has, the more power they possess. This is not mining, it is…
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Eijiro Tsukada once took the world’s third biggest economy to the brink of a national grapefruit shortage. Today, speaking in the fearless cant of the disruptive tech entrepreneur, he believes the next big thing will be freshly brewed powder matcha green tea. The world is about to want a lot more of it, says Tsukada,…
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At the southernmost tip of Texas, alongside the Gulf of Mexico, a gleaming stainless steel rocket has been rising from the salt marshes. At nearly 400ft, the new SpaceX rocket will eventually be taller than the Saturn V that carried Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon, and its 33 engines will deliver twice the thrust.…
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