In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including 5G, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, data centres and CSPs.
Here are our highlights:
Scammers are continuing to target WhatsApp users and hijack their accounts, by posing as a friend and asking for SMS security codes.
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US airline United has announced plans to buy 15 new supersonic airliners and "return supersonic speeds to aviation" in the year 2029.
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Jeff Bezos, one of the world's richest men and the chief executive of Amazon, has said he will travel into space next month.
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Australia's DCI Data Centers has been granted New Zealand Overseas Investment Office consent to purchase land for a major new data centre in Auckland, its first in the country.
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UK adults spent an average of three hours and 47 minutes online every day during the pandemic, an annual survey of media habits by regulator Ofcom has found.
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A big six-cylinder engine running at 500rpm turns methane given off by decomposing cow manure into electricity. The process is called anaerobic digestion.
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The world's largest meat processing company has paid the equivalent of $11m (£7.8m) in ransom to put an end to a major cyber-attack.
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A taskforce including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services is calling on the government to develop the education system to address the growing need for digital skills.
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Hackers have stolen valuable information from major game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), the company said. The attackers claimed to have downloaded source code for games such as FIFA 21.
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Dell Technologies has unveiled a "cloud-native infrastructure foundation solution", that is has said will push Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) "beyond the hype" of 5G to create new commercial ops in network deployments and edge.
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