Former US President Barack Obama has lashed out unusually hard at President Donald Trump in his speech to the Democratic convention. According to Obama, Trump has abandoned the 170,000 Americans who died from the corona pandemic. Obama also said Trump’s policies have cost millions of their jobs and are […]
One month after the cancellation of the data treaty between the EU and the US, privacy activist Max Schrems is taking websites to Court that still send data to the US. Schrems and his foundation have filed a complaint with the European privacy committees against 101 European websites. According […]
Americans have been busy doing odd jobs in the past quarter during the corona crisis. As a result, the American DIY chain Home Depot achieved record sales. Sales were even higher than expected and increased by almost a quarter year on year. In many countries with lockdowns due to […]
Italian motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi has called on his colleagues in MotoGP to race with a little more sense and respect for each other. That said the nine-time world champion after the Grand Prix of Austria, where he says he escaped death after a severe crash between the Frenchman […]
After eight months in preview, AWS is officially making its quantum computing cloud available. The service mainly runs through partners. Amazon launched a preview of a quantum technology test environment under the name Braket in early December. That service is now officially launched. To be clear, it is still […]
France sends the navy ship the Lafayette with two Rafale-type fighter jets to the eastern Mediterranean. The Ministry of Defense reported that this is part of plans to expand the military presence in that area. Tensions between Greece and Turkey are mounting there as a result of Turkish projects […]
Belarusian security forces have arrested alleged organizers of the protests on the third night of massive demonstrations against the regime, state news agency Belta reported Wednesday. One of the organizers would have been arrested in a hotel. Two Russian journalists would also have been arrested. Thousands of protesters have […]
Police in Belarus arrested about 3,000 protesters during protests against the conduct of Sunday’s presidential elections. This was reported by the Russian news agency RIA on the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. Previous reports in Minsk spoke of at least 120 arrests. A demonstrator was […]
The popular video app TikTok is threatening to go to American court over Donald Trump’s presidential decree, the company writes in a blog post on the website. Trump has prohibited transactions with the Chinese parent company ByteDance. TikTok says to be “shocked”. “The decree was issued without any fair […]
The Chinese authorities have released a man who was wrongfully detained for nearly 27 years for the murder of two boys. A court in Jiangxi Province ruled this week that there was insufficient evidence against Zhang Yuhuan, who says police tortured him to extract a confession. The time Zhang […]
