Tech & Science

By Charles Ellinas Earlier in July, the EU published its ‘European Innovation Performance Scoreboard 2024’ and in June the IMF published its new ‘AI Preparedness Index Dashboard’. Both put Cyprus in ...

Computer mouse maker Logitech International (LOGN.S) raised its full-year sales and profit outlook this week, saying it expected full year sales growth of up to 3 per cent after a ...

Shares in SAP (SAPG.DE) rose as much as 7 per cent to reach an all-time high earlier this week, after Europe’s largest software maker reported better-than-expected quarterly operating income, ...

When it comes to using smartphones, the possibilities are endless. They make excellent tools for just about everything, including running a business, taking notes in class, and creating content for ...

Grid Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO), and Dawiyat Integrated, a telecommunications arm of Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), this week signed a Memorandum of ...

Alphabet (GOOGL.O) beat second-quarter revenue and profit estimates on Tuesday, driven by a rise in digital advertising sales and healthy demand for its cloud computing services, but flagged that ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz has ended talks with Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) on a reported $23 billion deal in which it would have become the US tech giant’s largest-ever acquisition, ...

Commercial greenhouses in Europe are testing new energy and water efficiency technologies in support of the green transition. By Bárbara Pinho In the province of Almería in southeastern ...

Meta Platforms has announced that it has decided to suspend use of generative artificial intelligence tools in Brazil in response to the government’s objections to its new privacy policy ...

Outsized positions in artificial intelligence darling Nvidia (NVDA.O) have boosted portfolio managers’ returns this year but the bets stand to magnify risk if the chipmaker’s red-hot shares see ...

By Zeba Siddiqui Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo ...

Services from airlines to healthcare, shipping and finance were coming back online on Friday night and Saturday after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long global computer systems ...

Every four years, the best athletes from around the globe converge to battle it out for top honours at the Olympic Games. Athletes go through the rigours of qualification, competing ...

The Cyprus Mail recently sat down for an interview with Roman Gurskiy and Kirill Gurskiy, managing directors of GEM Capital, to delve into their transition from EY to GEM Capital, ...

By Fausto Corvino The era of low-cost air travel in Europe may be over for good, thanks in part to recent EU environmental policies. All in all, this is good ...

EU-funded researchers are using AI and satellite technologies to make the continent’s renewable energy infrastructure more reliable. By Jack McGovan Solar panels and wind turbines had to be shut ...

Russian traders have finalised a share exchange for investors in Yandex, often dubbed Russia’s Google, one of the final steps needed to complete a more than $5 billion deal that ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) has ditched the board observer seat at OpenAI that has drawn regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, saying it was not necessary after the AI ...

Lucid Group (LCID.O) reported second-quarter deliveries above market expectations this week, as price cuts helped boost demand for its luxury electric sedans. Demand for electric vehicles has grown at ...

Meta Platforms’ (META.O) newest social media offering Threads has over 175 million monthly active users, according to a report by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, published a year after it first launched. ...

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-chip company, is working on a new device that it believes will require half the number of electrodes to be implanted in the brain to make ...

Global shipments of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets experienced a significant decline of 67.4 per cent year over year in the first quarter of 2024, according to a report ...

The enterprise applications market experienced significant revenue growth in 2023 as artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (GenAI), began to transform the employee and customer experience of business software. According to ...

A US stock rally supercharged by excitement over artificial intelligence is drawing comparisons with the dotcom bubble two decades ago, raising the question of whether prices have again been inflated ...