Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, now the world's richest person with a net worth north of $180bn, announced on Twitter his plans to give away $100m of his fortune as a prize for the "best carbon capture technology." Details on Musk’s upcoming carbon capture competition have not been released but are expected to arrive “next week,” meaning it's not yet clear how such a contest will work or even what technologies might qualify. 

With a new platform, the EU border agency Frontex wants to automatically detect and assess „risks“ on the seas of the European Union. Suspected irregular activities are to be displayed in a constantly updated „threat map“ with the help of self-learning software. 

The dust has settled after the conclusion of CES 2021, the world’s largest event for consumer technologies and a deserved candidate for one of the year’s most exciting events. Still hyped about it, we decided to share with you the technologies that struck us the most and continue to occupy our thoughts! 

Sweden is moving very fast in setting the basis for covering the whole territory of the country by 5G telecommunications network, Reuters reported. The development plans show that the coverage will be implemented in the next two or three years.

The hi-tech giant Microsoft has joined General Motors, Honda and institutional investors to secure fresh $2bn to Cruise startup aimed at a development of driverless car, Reuters reported. The new equity investment which should accelerate the project and promote the commercialization of self-driven cars expands Cruise to some 30 billion dollars post-money valuation.

The largest illegal dark web marketplace in the world has been taken offline this week in an international police operation that involved Europol, officials from the US and the UK's National Crime Agency. The dark web marketplace, also known as DarkMarket, had almost 500,000 users, it had more than 2,400 sellers and they had facilitated over 320,000 transactions.

Samsung's Galaxy S21 lineup, presented during company's first virtual Unpacked event of the year at CES 2021, includes the vanilla Galaxy S21, a plus model that provides largely the same internals in a larger package and the Ultra that has a strong claim for the throne of the ultimate cameraphone.  

Google said it had completed its $2.1 billion deal to acquire the wearable device maker Fitbit, Reuters reported. The deal had sparkled some concerns over Google market positioning and the access of private health data of users intended for focused adverts.

Yes, we know - the title says it all! First, lets turn the clock back two years to 2019, when the foldable hype was at a fever pitch. Samsung kicked things off with an early look at its Galaxy Fold, followed a few days later by Huawei's Mate X. Motorola capped off the year with the Razr. Things were supposed to ramp up in 2020, with more foldables coming, and this forecast turned out to be true. But the early activity at this year's weirdest CES suggests we may be notice far more breakthroughs and mind-blowing concepts in the smartphone industry.

Investigators of the SolarWinds massive hacking attack have identified spying tools previously used by Moscow-related hackers, Reuters reported quoting sources involved in the investigation.