Tech & Science

General Motors (GM.N) announced that it will end robotaxi development at its majority-owned, money-losing Cruise business, a blow to the ambitions of the largest US automaker which had made ...

Nearly 95 per cent of Cypriots use the internet at least once a week, with usage among young people aged 16 to 24 reaching an almost universal 99.9 per cent, according to data from ...

The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) hit 20,000 for the first time on Wednesday, putting an exclamation point on a year in which excitement over artificial intelligence and expectations of falling interest ...

GDEV, a global gaming company based in Limassol, recently teamed up with InvestGame to examine the IPO landscape of 87 gaming firms with a combined valuation exceeding $350 billion. The gaming sector, ...

A Rotterdam court held an initial hearing on Monday in the case of a Russian former employee of semiconductor equipment maker ASML (ASML.AS) who is suspected of stealing intellectual ...

Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) director general Theodoros Loukaidis was recently presented with the Athenian Glaive award in Athens. According to an official announcement released on Monday, the RIF chief ...

The European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), taking effect on January 17, 2025, will impose tougher cybersecurity rules on financial entities, with the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) urging compliance ...

EU-funded researchers are turning food processing waste into a valuable resource, transforming discarded biomaterials into natural fertilisers. By Sofia Sanchez Manzanaro In Catalonia there are 7.7 million residents and approximately 7.9 million ...

Amazon (AMZN.O), announced a new slate of artificial intelligence platforms, known as foundation models, at its annual AWS conference, allowing for text, image and video generation, among other things. ...

Google Cloud (GOOGL.O) announced that it had partnered with Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA), to deploy generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology on the airline group’s data. WHY IT’S ...

Meta (META.O) has announced that it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence and environment goals, becoming the latest big tech company to ...

By Hallam Stevens On November 12, United States president-elect Donald Trump announced he would appoint Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, to lead a newly constituted Department of Government Efficiency ...

Britain’s cyber security chief warned of a rise in hostile activity in the country’s cyberspace, with the number of incidents handled by officials rising by 16 per cent in 2024 ...

A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year ...

Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71 per cent of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth’s twin based on their similar size ...

Intel (INTC.O), has started evaluating a handful of outsiders, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan, for the role of chief executive after the struggling American chipmaking icon ousted company ...

Top App Games, a mobile game developer headquartered in Cyprus, has secured $10 million in funding to bolster its hit strategy RPG, Ludus: Merge Arena, and to spearhead the development of ...

Cypriot businesses have accelerated their digital transformation efforts in 2024, according a study on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and e-commerce. Conducted by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), ...

Cypriot businesses have accelerated their digital transformation efforts in 2024, according a study on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and e-commerce. Conducted by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), ...

The global payments landscape is poised for transformative growth in 2025, driven by a surge in digital wallets and open banking adoption, according to a survey by payabl., a European financial ...

By Jean Burgess After Elon Musk bought Twitter (now rebranded X) in 2022, disaffected users began to seek alternatives. Alongside Meta’s Threads and the open source project Mastodon, Bluesky was ...

Cyprus Chief Scientist Demetris Skourides, joined by High Commissioner Nikos Panayiotou, concluded a week of strategic meetings in Singapore, strengthening partnerships and exploring AI policy frameworks to position Cyprus as ...

A new generation of lasers using ultrashort bursts of light is showing great potential for the sustainable manufacturing of precision parts. By Gareth Willmer German mechanical engineer and research manager ...

By MJ (Thinus) Booysen & Joubert Van Eeden In sub-Saharan Africa, high levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution from vehicle tailpipe emissions cause poor health, developmental stunting, and even death. ...