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The SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew (from L) Mission Commander Jared Isaacman, Mission Commander; Mission Specialist and Medical Officer Anna Menon; Mission Specialist Sarah Gillis; and Mission Pilot Scott Poteet

SpaceX Polaris Dawn Launch Pushed Back After Helium Leak

SpaceX on Monday pushed back the historic launch of an all-civilian crew on an orbital expedition set to mark a new chapter in space exploration with the first spacewalk by private citizens.

Meta CEO Zuckerberg Says US Pressure On Covid-19 Posts Was 'Wrong'

Zuckerberg addressed a number of controversies centered on content moderation on his platforms

In the letter, addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and released by Republicans on the committee, Zuckerberg addressed a number of controversies centered on content moderation on his platforms.

Thai Officials Raid Illegal Bitcoin Mine After Power Outages

This photo illustration shows a physical representation of a bitcoin

Police and officials from the Provincial Electricity Authorities (PEA) raided the house in Ratchaburi town on Friday.

Microsoft announced that the new versions of its consoles including the Xbox Series X will be available from October 15

Microsoft Seeks To Win Over New Players At Gamer Gathering

Microsoft took fans by surprise on Tuesday when announcing that its year-end blockbuster "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle", initially meant to be an exclusive for its Xbox console, would also be made available on rival Sony's PlayStation 5 in spring 2025.

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Epic Games is finally getting to go direct to consumers on mobile devices

Epic Launches Own App Store, Fortnite Back For IPhones In Europe

The launch of the store comes after Epic waged legal battles and lobbied regulators to loosen the grip of Apple and Google on the sale of apps for phones running their operating systems.

AFP news Aug 19, 2024

Meta says its focus on how accounts act has enabled it to expose deception campaigns on its platform

Meta Fends Off AI-aided Deception As US Election Nears

Russia is putting generative artificial intelligence to work in online deception campaigns, but its efforts have been unsuccessful, according to a Meta security report released Thursday.

AFP news Aug 16, 2024

The US government says it has signed a preliminary agreements with Texas Instruments to give the company up to $1.6 billion in support of new facilities in the country

US To Award Chipmaker Texas Instruments Up To $1.6 Bn

The US government said Friday it has signed a preliminary agreement with semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments to give the company up to $1.6 billion to help fund new facilities in the country.

AFP news Aug 16, 2024

The EU's request to Meta was sent under the bloc's Digital Services Act, a landmark new law that cracks down on illegal content online

EU Presses Meta On Plans After Disinformation Tracker Axed

The EU on Friday formally requested that Meta detail steps it is taking on transparency after the Facebook and Instagram owner scrapped a widely-used tool for tracking disinformation online.

AFP news Aug 16, 2024

The Grand Palais, which hosted Olympic events in Paris, and around 40 other museums in France were victims of a ransomware attack in early August

France Reports Over 140 Cyberattacks Linked To Olympics

French authorities said on Tuesday that more than 140 cyberattacks were reported during the Paris Olympics, but none of them disrupted the competitions.

AFP news Aug 14, 2024

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk (left) is set to interview Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the platform, where Musk has been accused of promoting far-right conspiracy theories and misinformation

Trump Holds Meandering Live 'Chat' With Backer Musk, After Delay

In a very one-sided conversation on X, Trump vented about a "zombie apocalypse" of immigration, repeatedly blasted President Joe Biden as "stupid", and mused on developing a new missile defense system based on the one that defends Israel.

AFP news Aug 13, 2024

Actors Scarlett Johansson (R) and Joaquin Phoenix starred in the 2013 fiction film 'Her', in which a man falls in love with a human sounding AI assistant

OpenAI Worries Its AI Voice May Charm Users

OpenAI said it noticed testers speaking to the AI in ways that hinted at shared bonds, such as lamenting aloud that it was their last day together.

AFP news Aug 12, 2024

Apple was the first ever tech firm to face formal accusations under the EU's new law known as the Digital Markets Act

Apple Makes Changes To App Store After EU Warning

The EU said the App Store terms prevented app developers from freely steering consumers to alternative ways to pay, making Apple the first ever tech firm to face accusations of breaching a new law known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

AFP news Aug 09, 2024

Elon Musk is accused of spreading US election misinformation on X, the influential platform he bought in 2022

Musk's Misleading Election Posts Viewed 1.2 Billion Times: Study

Ahead of the November election, researchers have raised alarm that X, formerly Twitter, is a hotbed of political misinformation.

AFP news Aug 09, 2024

A final decision on whether to persist with Starliner -- seen here docked with the ISS -- is expected later this month, officials said

NASA Weighs SpaceX Rescue For Stranded Boeing Starliner Crew

A final decision on whether to persist with Boeing's troubled Starliner -- which experienced worrying propulsion issues as it flew up to the orbital platform in June -- is expected later this month, officials said Wednesday in a call with reporters.

AFP news Aug 08, 2024

Elon Musk's X filed an antitrust lawsuit against an advertising group accusing it of engaging in an 'illegal boycott'

Elon Musk's X Sues Advertisers Over Boycott

The antitrust suit, filed in a federal court in Texas, targets the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted, a Danish energy company.

AFP news Aug 07, 2024

Cambridge-based Riverlane produces a chip that detects and corrects the errors currently holding back quantum computing

After AI, Quantum Computing Eyes Its 'Sputnik' Moment

The founder of Cambridge-based Riverlane, Steve Brierley, predicts that the technology will have its "Sputnik" breakthrough within years.

AFP news Aug 07, 2024

Several months of testimony saw Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other top executives take the stand

US Judge Rules Google Is Monopoly In Key Anti-trust Case

District Court Judge Amit Mehta found that Google had a monopoly for search and for text ads through exclusive distribution agreements that made it the "default" option that people were likely to use on devices.

AFP news Aug 06, 2024

Around 40 French museums were hit by a ransomware attack, a police source told AFP

Olympic Venue Among 40 Museums Hit By Ransomware Attack: French Police Source

Cybercriminals targeted the system used to "centralise financial data" for brands located at the various institutions on Saturday night, the source said.

AFP news Aug 06, 2024

TikTok Lite arrived in France and Spain in April this year

TikTok, Bowing To EU, Withdraws Rewards Programme

TikTok Lite arrived in France and Spain -- the only EU countries where it is available -- in April this year. Users aged 18 and over can earn points to exchange for goods like vouchers or gift cards through the app's rewards program.

AFP news Aug 05, 2024

While Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit is investing in an AI-infused future, the tech titan is still under pressure to rake in money from online retail and ads

AI And Cloud In Spotlight As Big Tech Earnings Roll Out

While it is important to stay on the cutting edge by investing in AI, the market wants financial engines of tech firms going strong to pay for it, according to analysts.

AFP news Aug 02, 2024

Meta-owned Instagram was blocked in Turkey on Friday following accusations it censorship

Turkey Blocks Access To Instagram

The BTK communications authority said in a post on its website that "instagram.com has been blocked by a decision on the date of 02/08/2024", without adding further details.

AFP news Aug 02, 2024

The EU's sweeping risk-based rules will cover all types of artificial intelligence

In World First, EU's Sweeping AI Law Enters Into Force

The EU earlier this year adopted the world's first sweeping rules to govern AI, especially powerful systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT after difficult and tense negotiations.

AFP news Aug 01, 2024

Bot-like accounts remain entrenched on X, previously known as Twitter, researchers say.

Bot-like Accounts On X Fuel US Political Conspiracies, Watchdog Says

Forty-five accounts analyzed by Global Witness, which collectively generated more than four billion impressions since late May, were active in the run-up to the British polls earlier this month.

AFP news Jul 31, 2024

Elon Musk is at the center of a new controversy over a manipulated video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris

Musk Faces Criticism Over Deepfake Kamala Harris Video

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk was facing criticism Monday for sharing a deepfake video featuring US Vice President Kamala Harris, which tech campaigners said violated the platform's own policies.

AFP news Jul 30, 2024

Big tech companies are increasingly in the spotlight for their appetite to eat up smaller firms, prompting some concerns in Silicon Valley

AI Startups Swap Independence For Big Tech's Deep Pockets

Short on funds, in the past few months promising companies like Inflection AI or Adept have seen founders and key executives quietly exit the stage to join the world's dominant tech companies through discrete transactions.

AFP news Jul 29, 2024

OpenAI says that it will weave what it learns from its 'SearchGPT' prototype into ChatGPT to add online search capabilities

OpenAI To Challenge Google With New Search Functionality

OpenAI on Thursday said it was putting its artificial intelligence engine to work in a challenge to Google's market-dominating search engine.

AFP news Jul 26, 2024

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that making the tech giant's AI software open to outside developers helps guard against the technology being limited to powerful companies or nations

Mark Zuckerberg, AI's 'Open Source' Evangelist

The 40-year-old tech tycoon laid out his vision in an open letter titled "Open Source AI is the Path Forward" this week. Here is what you need to know about the open versus closed model AI debate.

AFP news Jul 25, 2024

Paris Digital Park, owned by US firm Digital Realty, is one of more than 70 centres that ring the French capital

France Quietly Catches Rivals In Battle For Data Centre Supremacy

Paris Digital Park, which towers over four-storey apartment blocks and is owned by US firm Digital Realty, is one of more than 70 centers that ring the French capital -- more than a third of the country's total.

AFP news Jul 24, 2024

Analysts forecast double-digit growth for companies such as Microsoft, driven by artifical intelligence

All Eyes On AI To Drive Big Tech Earnings

The market generally agrees with this rosy AI narrative. Analysts forecast double-digit growth for heavyweights Microsoft and Google, in contrast to Apple, a latecomer to the AI party, with only three percent growth expected.

AFP news Jul 22, 2024

A large-scale outage wrought havoc on IT systems, causing travel delays at Sydney Airport

'Large-scale' IT Outage Hits Companies Worldwide

Australia's National Cyber Security Coordinator said the "large-scale technical outage" was caused by an issue with a "third-party software platform", adding there was no information as yet to suggest hacker involvement.

AFP news Jul 19, 2024

NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) assembled inside the cleanroom at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas

NASA Cans Lunar Rover After Spending $450 Million Building It

The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) was intended to explore the lunar south pole in search of ice and other resources, paving the way for planned crewed missions by American astronauts under the Artemis program later this decade.

AFP news Jul 18, 2024

The electric ferry that levitates across the waters of Stockholm

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