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Auto giant Volkswagen will revive Scout vehicles from the ashes in America.

The German automaker is investing more than $100 million (U.S. ) in the new Scout brand, VW executives said.

Scout ‘s rebirth will include the launch of all-electric SUVs and pickup trucks.Volkswagen took the opportunity to unveil a sketch of future models. It’s easy to see the influence of the original models.

That Volkswagen wants to turn to electric SUVs for Scout is not very surprising. SUVs now account for about 75 percent of U.S. sales for the group’s VW and Audi brands.

Long before the term SUV (sport utility vehicle) was coined, the Scout made by International Harvester was aprecursor. It paved the way for Detroit’s big three automakers, such as the Ford Bronco and General Motors’ (GM) Chevrolet Suburban.

Harvester built the Scout from 1961 to 1980. Manufactured in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Scout sold 532,674 units during its production.

In a sign that the severity of the pandemic is waning, Brazilians are once again hosting the world’s most famous carnival, Rio de Janeiro.

Originally scheduled for last February, the Carnival of Rio instead started in the last hours due to a postponement caused by the pandemic. Brazil experienced a huge spike in cases of the Omicron variant that spread throughout the country in January and February.

The first carnival was conceived in 1640, when it was a festival based on the Roman festival of Saturnalia, where participants paid tribute to the Greek gods of wine, Saturnalia and Bacchus.

African culture has since greatly influenced the carnival with the introduction of samba music in 1917. Samba is now considered traditional Brazilian music.

The Rio Carnival culminates in the Sambodromo on the avenue Marquês de Sapucaí. This huge stadium hosts 80,000 enthusiastic visitors who applaud some 5,000 participants.

The Rio Carnival is held until April 30.

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the two richest men on the planet, will soon be battling it out in space.

Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon, does not intend to leave all the space to Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX, in the implementation of Internet by satellite. The billionaire partnered yesterday with three companies to make up to 83 rocket launches over a period of five years.

Amazon hopes to catch up with SpaceX and its Starlink program, which already provides Internet by satellite. It is this service that is being used by the Ukrainians in its fight against Russia and that allows it to facilitate its communications, even though the country has been under siege since February 24.

Called Project Kuiper, Amazon’s new service is also supposed to provide fast, low-cost Internet access to underserved communities around the world, like Starlink.

Of the 83 planned launches , United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, will conduct 38, Europe’s Arianespace will conduct 18, and Jeff Bezos’ private space company, Blue Origin, will conduct at least 12, with an option for 15 additional launches as needed.

Eventually, the 83 rocket launches of the Kuiper project will deploy a constellation of 3,236 satellites in orbit around the Earth.

But SpaceX has a significant head start in the race for affordable broadband Internet. Starlink has more than 250,000 subscribers worldwide and has launched more than 1,900 satellites, according to statements by company executives and public documents.

That’s not the only business area where Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are battling it out in space. Both men are committed to developing space tourism. Blue Origin sent its first tourists into space last July, and has since been selling tickets for other flights.

SpaceX for its part is already sending astronauts on behalf of NASA to the International Space Station (ISS) since 2020. In 2021, it also sent tourists into space, but much further than its competitors. The company now plans to send humans to the planet Mars in the next few years.

The second-largest cryptocurrency theft in history occurred on March 23 from the Ronin blockchain project, authorities announced today.

The Ronin project said unidentified hackers stole some 173,600 ether tokens and 25.5 million USD Coin tokens worth 540 million (US). At current exchange rates, the stolen funds are worth 615 million USD.

Ronin said the hacker used stolen private keys to get hold of the funds.

“We are working directly with various government agencies to ensure that the criminals are brought to justice,” the project said.

Last August, cryptocurrency platform Poly Network was the victim of the largest theft in history. At the time of the misdeed, hackers had seized more than $600 million worth of .ork tokens.

Cryptocurrency is a virtual currency that is increasingly used as a method of payment. It can be exchanged through an exchange platform without the need for a traditional financial system.

The popularity of cryptocurrency has been growing steadily over the past few years. This year, during the Super Bowl LVI, it was noticed being very present during the commercial breaks.