Day: September 12, 2020

Swedish Company Unveils A Wind-Powered Car Carrier Ship That Uses Wings, Not Sails

Posted on by Robin Edgar

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the maritime consultancy SSPA partnered with shipbuilders Wallenius Marine in Sweden to design a cargo ship capable of reducing the industry’s huge carbon footprint. Around three percent of today’s carbon dioxide emissions come from the shipping industry, a figure that accounts for the 90,000 ships responsible for Read more about Swedish Company Unveils A Wind-Powered Car Carrier Ship That Uses Wings, Not Sails[…]

Watchdog accuses Amazon of price gouging during the pandemic

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A new report by the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen accuses Amazon of price gouging during the pandemic. According to the group, Amazon increased the prices of essential items like masks, hand sanitizer, disinfectant spray, paper towels and toilet paper. According to the report, the cost of a 50-pack of disposable face masks jumped from Read more about Watchdog accuses Amazon of price gouging during the pandemic[…]

Three middle-aged Dutch hackers slipped into Donald Trump’s Twitter account days before 2016 US election

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Three “grumpy old hackers” in the Netherlands managed to access Donald Trump’s Twitter account in 2016 by extracting his password from the 2012 Linkedin hack. The pseudonymous, middle-aged chaps, named only as Edwin, Mattijs and Victor, told reporters they had lifted Trump’s particulars from a database that was being passed about hackers, and tried it Read more about Three middle-aged Dutch hackers slipped into Donald Trump’s Twitter account days before 2016 US election[…]