Tech & Science

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 ...

British fintech company Revolut made a record pretax profit of 438 million pounds ($553.81 million) in 2023 on strong user growth and soaring interest-related income, it said on Tuesday, as it looks to ...

UBS is seeing a shift in the way clients are interacting with their bankers powered by artificial intelligence, according to the head of the Swiss bank’s domestic business Sabine ...

Apple (AAPL.O) will get an observer role on OpenAI’s board as part of a landmark AI agreement announced last month, Bloomberg News reported this week. Phil Schiller, the ...

The Swiss National Bank is open to expanding its pilot project with wholesale central bank digital currencies, governing board member Antoine Martin said on Wednesday. “We would like to see ...

Robotex MRC 2024, Cyprus’ largest educational robotics festival, concluded with resounding success over the weekend of June 29 and 30. Organised by the Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) and hosted at the University of ...

Gender Equality Commissioner Josie Christodoulou used her address at the recently held ‘Women in ICT’ event to highlight the gender disparity within the technology sector. The event was a collaborative ...

EU-funded researchers are taking technologies known as “smart wearables” to the next level. By Jessica Berthereau What do cycling, showering and making love have in common? All three activities prove ...

Data centres and electric vehicles are expected to ramp up US power demand by about 300 terawatt-hours (TWh), equivalent to the electricity consumed annually by Turkey, by the end of the ...

Microsoft faces a hefty antitrust fine after the European Commission this week accused it of illegally linking its chat and video app Teams with its Office product, giving it an ...

Google will showcase artificial intelligence features, and updates to its Pixel devices and the Android platform at a special event on Aug. 13, according to invites shared online by the Verge ...

Social media platform Reddit said this week that it will update a web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI ...

OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector’s first trade group, they said this week. The ...

A union representing Hollywood film and television crew said on Tuesday it has reached a tentative three-year deal with major studios that includes agreed-on pay hikes and guardrails against the ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) short sellers have raked in nearly $5 billion in paper profits from the AI chip designer’s sharp selloff over just three sessions earlier this week, according to ...

Boeing’s BA.N Starliner spacecraft won’t return its two astronauts from the International Space Station until after engineers spend “a couple weeks” on testing to investigate the spacecraft’...

Chief Scientist Demetris Skourides used his address at the opening of the Cyprus Space Research and Innovation Centre (C-SpaRC), hosted by the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO), to unveil a ...

Workers are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and prioritising skills growth amidst rising workloads and an accelerating pace of change, according to the results of a survey shared by consulting ...