Hanover (dpa) – Germany is facing a ‘massive’ fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic driven by the Omicron variant that will put its health services under severe pressure, the country’s new health minister predicted on Friday. Germany has seen a weeks-long trend of declining infection rates from a fourth wave of the pandemic. The country’s…

New York (dpa) – Unregulated communication via messenger services such as WhatsApp is costing the US bank JPMorgan dearly. On Friday, two US authorities imposed fines totalling 200 million dollars because employees had exchanged information about business matters via smartphone apps, meaning the bank was unable to archive its communications as required. According to the…

Geneva (dpa) – An international push to set limits on the use of autonomous weapons systems – so-called killer robots – is to continue next year after the latest round of talks achieved no concrete progress. In the face of opposition from Russia, the US and other countries, a Geneva meeting on Friday failed to…