Tesla has reported year-on-year sales growth of 98 per cent to $12 billion in the second quarter of the year. The company said that it had produced and delivered more than 200,000 vehicles over the period, achieving an operating margin of 11 per cent.
Encouraging women into tech roles should be a priority for business, according to new book from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Increasing the number of women in digital jobs is an urgent priority to ensure the diverse mix of skills the tech industry needs to benefit society and the economy, said the organisation.
Cyber-attacks on UK council remote workers more than tripled during the pandemic. According to a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made by Insight, online attacks targeting council employees working from home jumped by an average of 213 per cent from March 2020 compared to the 12 months before.
WhatsApp is the online application people are most curious about when it comes to the legal small print, according to new research. A study from Reboot Online Marketing found that the average number of global monthly online searches for key legal user agreements for WhatsApp was 29,640.
A new alliance has been formed to create industry-wide professional standards for data science, including rules about the misuse of data and bias in artificial intelligence. ‘The Alliance for Data Science Professionals’ is defining the standards needed to ensure an ethical and well-governed approach.
Australia's anti-trust watchdog is examining competition and consumer concerns across general online retail marketplaces, including eBay and Amazon. The investigation is part of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's (ACCC) wider inquiry into digital platform services in Australia.
A number of high-profile websites, including those of several banks and gaming platforms, were hit by an internet outage on Thursday. Airbnb, the PlayStation Network, Steam, British Airways, Barclays, HSBC, TSB, the Bank of Scotland, Tesco Bank and Sainsbury’s Bank were all impacted by the temporary outage.
A 22-year-old British man has reportedly been arrested over the of hacking several celebrity Twitter accounts, including those of Barack Obama and Jeff Bezos. The man, who was arrested in Spain, is alleged to have hijacked more than 130 Twitter accounts belonging to celebrities in order to scam followers into sending Bitcoin.
China has reportedly fined several of its biggest online platforms over illegal child content. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has summoned Kuaishou, Tencent's messaging tool QQ, Alibaba's Taobao and Weibo, the BBC said on Wednesday.
Netflix has announced it is in the early stages of expanding into the gaming market. The entertainment business is building on earlier efforts around interactivity as seen in its Black Mirror Bandersnatch and Stranger Things games.
In the first half of 2021, the UK has seen the establishment of seven new $10 billion+ tech businesses. According to research from Tech Nation, this means Britain has more than doubled the number of companies valued over $10 billion, also known as decacorns, ranking it third in the world.
New ticket machines from Northern Rail have been hit by a suspected ransomware attack. The system has been offline since last week while an investigation takes place.