Russian space movie director says moon or Mars could be next
Russian film director Klim Shipenko said on Tuesday he was up for making a movie on the moon or even Mars after returning from 12 days of shooting aboard the International ...
EU appeals to shared values to tempt Taiwan’s chip firms
The European Union and Taiwan are democracies with shared values and are natural partners when it comes to semiconductors, a senior EU official said on Thursday, making a pitch for ...
Apple rolls out new AirPods, Mac chips
Apple Inc on Monday introduced a third generation of its AirPod wireless earbuds with “spatial audio” features and a $5-per-month streaming music plan.
The new AirPods are also sweat- and ...
Sony celebrates five-year anniversary of PlayStation VR
Sony marked the five-year anniversary of the PlayStation VR virtual reality headset earlier this week, recounting the timeline of the headset’s history, as well as handing out free games.
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Apple worker says she was fired after leading movement against harassment
An Apple employee who led fellow workers in publicly sharing instances of what they called harassment and discrimination at the company said on Thursday that she had been fired.
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Nasa launches first space probe to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
Nasa launched a first-of-its kind mission on Saturday to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of primordial material that formed ...
EU lawmakers mull changes that could bring European companies under EU tech rules
European Union lawmakers may lower a threshold that determines which companies will be subject to new tech rules, a top EU lawmaker said on Wednesday.
The proposal could mean some ...
Pinterest launches new ad features to drive shopping
Pinterest (PINS.N) will roll out new features for brands to promote products and ideas to users, the digital pinboard company said Wednesday, part of an effort to grow online ...
Cyprus’ largest tech event underway in Limassol
More than 70 local and international movers and shakers of the tech world will share their stories as part of a packed events programme for ‘Doers United’ 2021 Reflect Festival, which is ...
Facebook to change rules on attacking public figures on its platforms
Facebook will now count activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an ...
Beam me up, Bezos: Star Trek’s Shatner becomes world’s oldest space traveller
By Mike Blake
Having made a career out of playing an explorer of the cosmos, William Shatner – Captain James Kirk of Star Trek fame – did it for real on Wednesday, ...
Google to invest $1 billion in Africa over five years
Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet and will back startups to support the continent’s digital ...
Ancient Indonesian woman reshapes views on spread of early humans
Genetic traces in the body of a young woman who died 7,000 years ago furnish the first clue that mixing between early humans in Indonesia and those from faraway Siberia took ...
Cyprus places sixth in European cyber security competition
Cyprus has scored an impressive sixth place finish at this year’s European Cyber Security Challenge.
Germany took the top spot, followed by Poland, Italy, France and Denmark.
The competition, ...
TSMC and Sony considering joint chip factory
Taiwan’s TSMC (2330.TW) and Japan’s Sony Group Corp (6758.T) are considering jointly building a chip factory in Japan, with the government ready to pay for some of the ...
Future of local tech industry discussed at Cyprus IT Forum
The future of the Cyprus technology industry was one of the primary subjects of discussion at the Cyprus IT Forum taking place in Limassol on Friday, with a number of ...
Little fluffy clouds may help save Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
To slow the speed at which high temperatures and warm waters bleach the corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Australian scientists are spraying droplets of ocean water into the sky ...
England’s Isle of Wight was Isle of Fright, with two big dinosaur predators
Fossils found on a rocky beach show there was double trouble on England’s Isle of Wight about 127 million years ago, with a pair of large previously unknown dinosaur predators ...
Amazon’s Twitch hit by data breach
Amazon.com Inc’s live streaming e-sports platform Twitch said on Wednesday it was hit by a data breach, without providing further details.
An anonymous hacker claimed to have leaked ...
Good friends and fresh blood: the social life of a vampire bat
When one thinks of vampire bats, friendship and cooperation may not be among the qualities that come to mind for these blood-feasting creatures of the night. But maybe they should.
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Russian actor blasts off to attempt a world first: a movie in space
A Russian actress and a film director blasted off for the International Space Station on Tuesday, beating Tom Cruise in the race to shoot the first movie in space.
The ...
Facebook outage leaves footballers twiddling their thumbs
Tottenham Hotspur’s Lucas Moura joked that Monday’s near six-hour social media outage meant he finally had a chance to connect with his wife, while Everton’s Richarlison saw ...
Scientists come closer to solving Caribbean seaweed mystery
Scientists were baffled when a band of seaweed longer than the entire Brazilian coastline sprouted in 2011 in the tropical Atlantic – an area typically lacking nutrients that would feed such growth.
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Facebook blames “faulty configuration change” for nearly six-hour outage (Update)
Facebook Inc blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such ...