Tech & Science

Three new apps have been created to enhance the virtual tourism experience of Larnaca, the local development and promotion board announced on Monday. The first concerns a virtual tour focusing ...

Invest Cyprus on Monday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO). The agency, tasked with the purpose of driving foreign investment ...

Global spending on cloud infrastructure services climbed by 21 per cent during the third quarter of 2024, reaching $82 billion, according to technology industry analysts Canalys.  The surge was fuelled by heightened investments ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on ...

In an age of smart machines, EU-funded researchers are ensuring that they are being designed with sustainability and societal well-being in mind. By Jack McGovan Machines have always fascinated Dr ...

The chief executive of Arm (O9Ty.F) has downplayed the company’s ambitions to become a chip supplier in its own right at a trial against Qualcomm, a major ...

Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly imminent ...

The lead European Union data privacy regulator for Meta (META.O) has fined the social media giant 251 million euros ($263.5 million) for a 2018 Facebook security breach that affected 29 million users. Meta ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) said on Friday it was recalling 694,304 vehicles in the United States over an issue with the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). The TPMS warning light may not ...

Cyta on Friday announced that it will adopt digital identity verification through the government’s Digital Citizen application This new service will start on December 23, 2024, with Cyta saying that this ...

More than four in five consumers don’t know the performance details of their internet service, and many remain unaware of their rights or how to file complaints, a survey ...

Britain’s online safety regime came into force on Monday, requiring social media companies like Meta’s (META.O) Facebook and ByteDance’s TikTok to take action to tackle criminal ...

President-elect Donald Trump could be the “president of this AI generation” as he will take office at a time when critical infrastructure to developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) is built ...

Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, along with TPG Rise Climate and other investors, is backing clean energy developer Intersect Power as part more than $800 million funding round, the company has ...

EU-funded researchers are unlocking the secrets of the human eye, creating cutting-edge digital models that are transforming the quality of eye surgeries. By Sofia Sanchez Manzanaro For 89-year-old Mercedes Alvarez ...

Policymakers aiming to recommend safeguards for artificial intelligence are facing a formidable challenge: science that is still evolving. AI developers themselves are grappling with how to prevent abuse of novel ...

Europe’s Airbus (AIR.PA), Thales (TCFP.PA), and Leonardo (LDOF.MI), are exploring plans to set up a new joint space company as they look to compete with Elon ...

Iris Lim, SOAS, University of London A freedom of information request has revealed that an AI system used by the UK government for assessing benefits cases is apparently getting it ...

S&P Global Ratings this week downgraded chipmaker Intel Corp’s (INTC.O) credit rating to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB+’, on slow business recovery and uncertainty following management changes. The ...

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 ...