Tech & Science

Snap (SNAP.N) slumped more than 32 per cent on Wednesday after fourth-quarter revenue missed Wall Street expectations, with the company struggling to compete for advertising dollars against heavyweights such as ...

Thermal decomposition is helping to green two major EU manufacturing industries. By Michael Allen For thousands of years, humans have converted wood into charcoal through a technique called pyrolysis. Now, ...

Payments from crypto-related ransom attacks nearly doubled to a record $1 billion in 2023, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said on Wednesday. Scammers targeting institutions such as hospitals, schools and government offices for ...

Simulations of the human body and advanced data promise more personalised medical treatment for a range of illnesses. By Jack McGovan In a laboratory in the Italian capital Rome, Marco ...

Walt Disney (DIS.N) CEO Bob Iger hit back at activist investors on Wednesday with a slew of announcements, including a splashy investment in “Fortnite” maker Epic Games and plans ...

Alphabet (GOOGL.O) plans to seek external investment for GFiber, its business selling Wi-Fi and internet connectivity in parts of the United States, the company told Reuters on Monday, as ...

Expanding online presence beyond domestic borders presents an exciting frontier for businesses. International search engine optimization (SEO) stands as the cornerstone of this global outreach, enabling brands to effectively engage ...

Las Vegas’ newest star attraction, the $2.3 billion Sphere, is wowing football fans with a variety of Super Bowl-themed content as Sunday’s showpiece game between the San Francisco 49ers and ...

Before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago, Russia’s Nasdaq-listed search engine giant Yandex (YNDX.O) was briefly worth $30 billion. This week, a consortium of domestic investors agreed ...

Nintendo (7974.T) on Tuesday raised its full-year Switch sales forecast to 15.5 million units from 15 million units previously, as the company squeezed sales out of the aging console over the year-end ...

Microsoft will provide 2 million people in India with AI skilling opportunities by 2025, CEO Satya Nadella said on Wednesday, adding that it is imperative for India and the United States to ...

Google (GOOGL.O) on Thursday renamed its Bard chatbot after the new artificial intelligence that is powering it, called Gemini, and said consumers can pay for better reasoning capabilities as ...

An entity formed of senior Yandex managers will become the Russian internet company’s largest shareholder with a 35 per cent stake should a $5.2 billion cash and share deal go through, ...

Britain on Tuesday said it would spend more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) to launch nine new research hubs in artificial intelligence (AI) and train regulators about the technology. “AI is ...

Honda Motor Co (7267.T) said on Tuesday it was recalling 750,000 vehicles in the United States over a defect involving air bags which could deploy unintentionally during a crash. The front ...

Japan’s Toyota Motor (7203.T) raised its full-year operating profit forecast by nearly 9 per cent on Tuesday, after its third-quarter earnings raced past analysts’ estimates thanks to a weaker yen ...

Researchers are going beyond conventional solar panels in a bid to generate heat and electricity from the other external surfaces of buildings. By Jack McGovan In social housing on the ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) is expected to report a 15.8 per cent jump in quarterly revenue, its best growth in nearly two years, as rising adoption of its products infused with generative ...

Stellantis’ (STLAM.MI) Peugeot brand plans to use ChatGPT to improve the voice assistant in its cars and vans, the French brand said on Tuesday, joining rivals such as Volkswagen ...

Spotify (SPOT.N) said on Friday that Apple’s (AAPL.O) new plan to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is “a complete and total farce.” ...

The global electric vehicle (EV) market is set to witness a substantial growth of 29 per cent, reaching 13.7 million units in 2023, according to the latest research from technology market analysts Canalys. ...

Despite the buzz over generative artificial intelligence last year, the technology’s impact on the advertising business of Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) is likely to be ...

Whether Amazon.com (AMZN.O) can cash in on its delivery heft by boosting fee revenue from its “Buy With Prime” service after a 2022 overhaul of its logistics network will ...

Italy’s data protection authority has told OpenAI that its artificial intelligence chatbot application ChatGPT breaches data protection rules, the watchdog said on Monday, as it presses ahead with an ...