Tech & Science

Investors hammered technology stocks on Monday, sending the likes of Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Oracle (ORCL.N) plummeting, as the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model cast doubts ...

As of Monday, Cypriot citizens can apply for electronic IDs to electronically sign documents and access governmental services online. The first 100,000 eIDs will be state subsidised with 30,000 issued completely free ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) has announced that it changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle (ORCL.N) and Japan’...

In Earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest ...

One EU-funded project in the 1990s turned the medical world on its head by introducing 3D printing to healthcare. This led to much better outcomes for complicated surgeries, improving the ...

Lonestar Data Holdings is reaching for the moon in its quest to place the first physical data center on the lunar landscape. The space startup will use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ...

Oracle’s (ORCL.N) shares jumped nearly 9 per cent before the bell on January 22 after US President Donald Trump said the company would make a large investment in artificial intelligence ...

Despite a significant shift towards environmentally friendly cars in 2024, interest in Cyprus’ eco-friendly vehicle scheme appears to have stalled, according to data on applications submitted thus far. The scheme, currently ...

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Wednesday unveiled its newest Galaxy S25 smartphones, powered by Qualcomm’s chips and Google’s artificial-intelligence model, hoping its upgraded AI features can reinvigorate sales and ...

Cyprus is getting its own AI taskforce, after the cabinet agreed on Wednesday it was necessary to help prepare the country to address challenges and grasp the opportunities offered by ...

Chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) has announced that it will separate its venture capital and investment arm, Intel Capital, into a standalone company, to focus on enhancing efficiency across the ...

EU-backed researchers and doctors are pioneering advanced pre-implantation and prenatal genetic testing to improve the chance of healthy pregnancies in at-risk families. By Vittoria D’Alessio The story of Bojana ...

Generative artificial intelligence bellwether OpenAI said this week that it is introducing a beta feature called Tasks to ChatGPT, signaling the company’s foray into the virtual assistant space, competing ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a ...

The European Commission said it was assessing its cases against Apple (AAPL.O), Alphabet (GOOGL.O), X and Meta (META.O), stressing that President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) is planning to halt hiring in part of its consulting business in the US in a bid to cut costs, CNBC reported this week, citing an internal ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he wanted to make the UK an artificial intelligence “superpower”, promising to take a pro-innovation approach to regulation, make public data available to researchers ...

The global semiconductor market is expected to grow by over 15 per cent in 2025, according to market intelligence firm IDC. IDC explained that this growth will largely be driven by the ...

The US PC market, excluding tablets, experienced a 7 per cent year-on-year growth in Q3 2024, with shipments reaching 17.9 million units, according to research from market analysts Canalys. Canalys said that this ...

Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider and actively present in Cyprus, this week announced the launch of The Kyndryl Institute. According to the announcement, the institute aims ...

By Michael Timothy Bennett & Elija Perrier A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20, OpenAI’s ...

In a first, the EU General Court ruled this week that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection ...

Quantum computing stocks sank on January 8, pausing a year-long rally, after Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said the technology’s practical use was likely two decades away. The long ...