Telstra has unveiled a rewards program called Telstra Plus that will give its customers points for the money they spend with the telco and they can then use these to obtain discounts on new products and technology.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has again said that her country has not banned Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from playing a role in its 5G networks.

Researchers at the private Texas-based Rice University claim they have found a method to recover strategic metals like cobalt from the large number of used lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles, mobile phones and other electronic devices.

More than half of the cars sold in Norway in March this year were electric vehicles, according to the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association which monitors sales.

Game of Thrones is the most widely used among downloaded TV shows to spread Windows malware, the security firm Kaspersky Lab claims, using data obtained from its Kaspersky Security Network to come to this conclusion.

Tyre and rubber company Bridgestone Europe has completed the acquisition of digital fleet solutions company TomTom Telematics, for €910 million.

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