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The European Commission plans to impose duties not only on Chinese electric cars, but also on cheap consumer goods from Chinese e-shops such as Temu and Shein. According to the UK's Financial Times, the Commission wants to abolish the current €150 threshold where goods are exempt from duty. The new proposal, to be unveiled later this month, t...
In the spring, Rohlik Group founder Tomáš Čupr said he would take a break from looking for new investments for some time. But now he has announced that he will raise CZK 4 billion and plans to expand to 15 new cities across Europe. Rohlik Group, the leader in the online grocery market in Central and Eastern Europe, will raise €160 million fro...
Security experts warn that a new downloader called Agent.RWL has become widespread in the Czech Republic in recent weeks. A few months ago, no one had heard of it, but according to antivirus company Eset, it is now the biggest threat to the Windows operating system. This malware is spreading unusually fast and is currently responsible for one...
While the common trend in supermarkets is to speed up the checkout process, one store in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, has taken the opposite approach. They have introduced a so-called super-slow checkout, where there is no room for rush and stress. This checkout is designed especially for the elderly and people with health problems. Everyone ha...
Fast food chain McDonald's has postponed its plans to introduce AI-based automated service for McDrive. The system, which has been tested since 2019 in partnership with IBM, wasn't perfect and sometimes gave drivers incorrect orders. Frustrated customers filmed some of the situations on mobile phones and posted the videos on social media, the...
In the last two months, the unwanted visitor Qbot, which has been causing security experts a lot of concern for the last year, has reappeared. According to cybersecurity company Check Point, it is now one of the most widespread malicious codes in the Czech Republic, targeting computers running the Windows operating system. Qbot, which first a...
Fast and effective workouts with the 7 Minutes Workout app If you're short on time, the 7 Minutes Workout app is the perfect solution to keep fit. It offers short, seven-minute workouts that include basic exercises to speed up your heart rate and stretch your muscles. Even if you're not a big fan of exercise, these short and effective workout...
Hit-and-run cyclists are a disgusting but unfortunately common occurrence. Fifteen-year-old Lochlan Nicol of Jensen Beach, Florida, experienced this firsthand when he rode his bike to a gas station to get ice cream. Little did he know what was in store for him, and what role his AirPods would play in it. Suddenly, he was hit by an SUV, with h...
Shocking scenes took place last weekend on the German island of Sylt, where a group of exuberant young people celebrated the start of the tourist season. With smiles on their faces and music playing, they shouted the slogans "Germany to Germans, foreigners out!" (Deutschland den Deutschen, Ausländer raus!). Many of them filmed these moments o...
