Top Stories of the Week: May 24-28

                                        A roundup of this week's top stories

• Operational cybersecurity and the new industrial frontier

  Protecting industrial infrastructure and supply chains from cybercrime has become more important than ever as the pandemic and the advent of increased connectivity have offered more chances than ever before for assets to be breached, according...

• EU competition watchdog launches investigation into Coca-Cola Co.

  Antitrust regulators in the EU have commenced a preliminary investigation into The Coca-Cola Company, the European Commission has announced...

• Prices of recycled plastic at "historic highs", says industry group

  Global prices of recycled plastics have risen to "historically high" levels, according to recycling industry federation, the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR)...

• Virgin Galactic performs first manned test flight

  Virgin Galactic, the spaceflight wing of UK billionaire Sir Richard Branson's company, has completed the first of three key manned test flights as it seeks to enter the commercial spaceflight market...

• Bosch develops renewable gasoline with 20% lower CO₂ emissions

  The available range of renewable low-carbon fuels is growing. Following on from R33 Blue Diesel, Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now come up with a low-carbon gasoline.

• Liberty Steel to sell UK assets as it closes in on deal

  Sanjeev Gupta's Liberty Steel is set to sell a number of UK assets as it holds talks with investment bank Credit Suisse about paying off its debts...

• US researchers develop "world's most efficient" microchip

  A team of researchers based out of Brigham Young University in Utah have developed an ADC (analogue-to-digital converter) microchip which it claims is the most efficient of its kind...