China is stepping up work on its own narrow-body aircraft C919. Already six airliners will participate in test flights in this year, and the first deliveries are to begin in 2021. Will the "miracle" of the Chinese aviation industry succeed in circumventing the Boeing 737 and Airbus 320? The Chinese mainline narrow-body aircraft C919 has not yet passed certification tests, but is already becoming...

Mobile service threatens to compete with business model of stores like eBay and Farfetch: users no longer have to go to third-party resources to pay for the goods they like. American users of Instagram can now make purchases right inside the mobile application. The service has implemented the function of integrated payment for goods, the company's website reports. “We present the function of...

The unmanned driving technology, which can completely replace conventional cars in the future, raises many questions. Is it safe to use self-driving cars? How will they deal with moral choices in a critical situation? How they will affect the road situation? Now, there is another concern – unmanned vehicles can be potentially dangerous for dark-skinned people with dark skin. According to a study...

Analysts at MMC Ventures have concluded that about 40% of European startups, which are known to be involved in development of the artificial intelligence (AI) technology, do not actually use it. Thus, only 1.6 thousand startups out of 2.8 thousand are really engaged in AI. Startups say that they are engaged in AI because companies in this sector attract more significant investments and are more...

Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri warned about a delay in introduction of 5G networks in Europe due to frequency and regulation problems. “I think that [introduction] of 5G will be delayed in Europe,” Suri told CNBC at the World Mobile Congress. "Frequency spectrum is available in some countries, but not in all," said Head of Nokia, adding that the market is subject to excessive regulation and that...

The South Korean company Samsung has introduced a new model line of Galaxy smartphones. There were four more models presented together with the flagship model, one of which is bent in half, like a sheet of paper. Galaxy Fold will start selling on April 26, it risks becoming the most expensive mass-produced phone: the starting price is $ 1980. This time, the smartphones were presented at two...

Last week, Shell became another major oil and gas company that bet on electric batteries. The British-Dutch giant announced purchase of German startup Sonnen, the leader in intelligent systems and energy storage for households. This is a new, but extremely promising direction in the market, especially against the backdrop of ambitious state projects on renewable energy sources in many countries...

The new Swedish government wants to ban sale of new gasoline and diesel cars since 2030. Vehicles should stop using fossil fuels and replace it with electricity or biofuels. However, many questions arise as to how this can be implemented in practice. In just 10 years from now it will be impossible to sell new cars that run on fossil fuels in Sweden. Instead, politicians hope that electric...

Developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) are considered almost the key direction of scientific and technological progress in the 21st century. But which countries and companies on our planet are leading in creating "thinking" and self-learning machines and computer programs? It is widely believed that North America is still ahead, but Asia is about to overtake it, while Europe is...