Tech & Science

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. ...

Google plans to make adjustments to displaying search results on its platform in Europe after some smaller rivals complained about lower traffic to their sites following previous tweaks by the ...

Orange (ORAN.PA) will enlist OpenAI and Meta (META.O) to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, according to an ...

Shares of Dell (DELL.N), and HP (HPQ.N), fell after the personal computer makers issued forecasts that cast doubt on a market recovery driven by artificial intelligence-enabled PCs. Dell ...

Cyberattacks have cost British businesses around 44 billion pounds ($55.08 billion) in lost revenue in the past five years, with 52 per cent of private sector companies reporting at least one attack in ...

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft (MSFT.O), including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter ...