EU fines Meta $840m for ‘abusive’ practices on Facebook platform
Apple accused of trapping, ripping off 40m iCloud customers
Microsoft has announced British Artificial Intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman will lead its newly-formed division, Microsoft AI. Mr Suleyman currently heads start-up Inflection AI, but is best known for co-founding AI firm DeepMind. It was one of the UK's best known AI firms
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully carried out the longest test flight of its massive Starship rocket, but it disintegrated on its return to Earth. The module was destroyed while approaching its landing point in the Indian Ocean. Here are the highlights of the Starship rocket
An AI weapons-scanning company has backtracked on claims its technology has been tested by the UK government. Evolv Technology makes "intelligent" scanners designed to replace metal detectors by identifying people with concealed guns, knives and bombs. But the company has
Space One Co., a Japanese startup backed by Canon Inc., failed to send its first rocket to space, a major setback in efforts to join a booming market for commercial launches. The lightweight Kairos rocket exploded in flames just seconds after taking off around 11 a.m. Wednesday
Former US President Donald Trump has criticised a congressional bill to force TikTok's parent company to sell the app or see it banned in the US. Mr Trump, who attempted to ban TikTok in 2020 while in the White House, said the proposal would give unfair advantages to Facebook owner
In a momentous stride toward modernizing workplaces and fostering seamless collaboration, Bashundhara Group proudly unveils KeyTone, a cutting-edge digital platform inaugurated by Mr. Safwan Sobhan, the Vice Chairman of the company. Bashundhara Group consistently empowers its workforce
Private Japanese rocket launch company Space One Co. has postponed the launch of its small rocket scheduled for Saturday due to a ship entering the downrange hazard area. The Tokyo-based company initially delayed the launch of its 18-meter-long Kairos rocket at Space Port Kii in
Chinese companies Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp used US technology to produce an advanced chip in China in 2023, Bloomberg News reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. SMIC used technology from California's Applied Materials
"What is the most expensive thing in the world," was a question asked by a student from the KTCT Higher Secondary School in Kallambalam here loudly, even as a humanoid draped in a saree listened attentively. A necklace on the humanoid changed colour from green to orange, and
It sounds like science fiction. Ocean-going ships with no-one on board. But this vision of the future is coming - and sooner than you might think. You can glimpse it in a Norwegian fjord where a huge, lime-green vessel is being put through its paces. At first glance, it seems like any
A former Google software engineer has been charged in the US with stealing trade secrets about artificial intelligence (AI) while secretly working for two Chinese companies. Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was indicted in the state of California on four charges and arrested on
Tesla has halted production at its German factory after power lines supplying the plant were set on fire in an act of “sabotage” claimed by a far-left group. Emergency services were called early on Tuesday after reports of a burning electricity pylon southeast of Berlin
Sales in China of Apple's iPhone fell by 24% in the first six weeks of 2024 compared to a year earlier, according to research firm Counterpoint. It comes as the US technology giant is facing fierce competition in the country from local rivals. During the same period China's
If you were kicked out of your Facebook or Instagram account while scrolling earlier Tuesday, you weren’t alone. Meta’s social media platforms had problems Tuesday morning, with Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Threads pulling up “failure to load”
Meta-owned platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, are currently facing technical issues, rendering them inaccessible for many users on Tuesday. The outage has impacted functionalities across these social media platforms. A source inside Facebook said that the
Jeff Bezos has dethroned Elon Musk to reclaim his title as the world’s richest man. The Amazon founder’s net worth currently stands at $200bn, topping the Tesla chief’s $198bn, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed on Tuesday. Bezos has gained $23bn so far in
North Korean hackers have broken into South Korean chip equipment makers, according to South Korea's spy agency. Pyongyang is trying to make semiconductors for its weapons programmes, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) says. It comes a month after President Yoon Suk Yeol
A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Florida on March 4 carrying a crew of three American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) to begin a six-month science mission in Earth orbit. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, topped with an autonomously
Huawei ‘Seeds For The Future 2024 Bangladesh’ is now open for registration with the aim to develop an ICT ecosystem by enhancing ICT knowledge of students in the country. Bangladeshi undergraduate students in third year or above can enroll to this competition by
Extending a global retreat from news content, Meta said it would scrap the Facebook News tab in Australia and would not renew deals with news publishers worth hundreds of millions of dollars. "People don't come to Facebook for news and political content," the firm said,