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TURKEY 🇹🇷 IS JOINING THE CRYPTO BAN. Turkey will ban the use of cryptocurrencies as a form of payment following months of economic turbulence that spurred locals to swap the local currency for bitcoin and foreign currencies. Do you support government banning crypto?

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@spacex emergency abort procedure for the Dragon Capsule. The Dragon Capsule has undergone thousands of hours of testing to make it one of the safest human spaceflight vehicles ever flown. #engineering #engineer #tech #technology #innovation #innovative #invention #eng #spacex

On average, successful cyberattacks cost businesses $200,000 in damage and repairs. Source: CNBC

43% of cyberattacks are aimed towards small businesses. But only 14% of small businesses are equipped to deal with cyberattacks. Source: CNBC

WordPress is the most hacked CMS, with 83% of the compromised websites being hosted on their platform. Source: HostingFacts, 2021

More than 90,000 websites are hacked daily. Source: HostingFacts, 2021

Facebook has 1/5th of its 52,000 employees working on Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality devices according to The Verge. That's over 10,000 people! Heads up everyone, VR/AR is about to become a really big deal this decade. #WorldwideEngineering

Only 12% of the people in the world could read and write in 1820, today the share has reversed: only 12% of the world population, in 2019, remained illiterate. #WorldwideEngineering

(3/3) The takeaway: Automation will create the largest migration of labour. It’ll destroy jobs, but will also create new job opportunities! Understand how the world is evolving, and take advantage of those opportunities as they get created.

(2/3) The catch is: Although automation and robots will be replacing millions of jobs, we won't have enough humans to fill some of the new jobs created by this wave of automation. The largest shortage will be in Healthcare, IT, and Manufacturing.

(1/3) By 2030, there will be a global human talent shortage of more than 85 million people, most of them in high-tech-related fields. That's roughly equivalent to the population of Germany! Source: Korn Ferry Research

The panels will only act as a complementary source for charging the vehicle. Hyundai claims that solar panels can provide an additional 2000 km (1242 miles) to the range of in a year in sunny conditions. Smart or not? #engineering #sustainability #sustainable #engineering

INTERVIEW #34 - Learn from David Reger, the Founder & CEO of German robotics startup, NEURA Robotics, how they built the world's first cognitive robot, designed to work, learn from, and assist humans. Listen here: worldwideengineering.io/pages/podcast #robotics #robot #ai

Billions of years ago, an enormous space rock struck Mars and excavated a 750-mile-wide (1,200 kilometres) crater now called the Isidis impact basin. This basin is host to the Jezero Crater, the primary exploration site of the NASA Perseverance Rover. #engineering #engineer

World's Top 10 Wealthiest People (1996 - 2021) according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index #stats #millionaire #millionaires #engineer #statistics #engineering #tech #Technology #innovation #datavisualization #dataviz #graph

What's it like to grow up as a child prodigy? To graduate from high-school aged 12? And to own a robotics company before you can legally drive a car? Find out about Mike Wimmer's story on our latest podcast episode! Listen here: lnk.to/worldwideengin…

Not all creations that look cool are meant to be useful. Such was the case for the Soviet Union tank that was boosted by a rocket engine. This allowed the heavy tanks to propel forward without getting stuck in mud or difficult terrain. #tank #sovietrussia #sovietunion #soviet

Cambridge researchers say #Bitcoin  consumes around 121.36 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year.

When you put talented minds together behind an honourable project, great things happen. Congratulations to the team behind the successful #UAE Mars Mission!