Tech & Science

The global smartphone market experienced a pronounced contraction of 9 per cent year-on-year during the third quarter of 2022, something which has been primarily attributed to a dent in demand, according to ...

An experimental vaccine provided broad protection against all 20 known influenza A and B virus subtypes in initial tests in mice and ferrets, potentially opening a pathway to a universal flu ...

Sony Group Corp (6758.T) said it plans to expand a programme to identify and incubate Chinese-made games, in a race with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to tap China’s gaming ...

Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way’s center, some are fierce – guzzling surrounding material ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) chief executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that South Korea was among its top candidate locations for a factory it plans to build in Asia for making ...

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is planning to produce chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology at its new factory in the US state of Arizona but the plans are not completely finalised yet, ...

Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google this week introduced rules for inviting guest speakers to its offices, days after it canceled a talk by an Indian historian who has disparaged ...

Hundreds of Twitter employees are estimated to be leaving the beleaguered social media company following an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for “long hours at ...

The Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) is bringing ActInSpace, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) space start-up competition for students and young innovators, to Nicosia. The event will take place ...

One of the most promising biotech companies in Cyprus currently is Promed Bioscience. They produce collagen-based biomaterials including highly purified medical-grade atelocollagen among others. They have announced the closing of €800...

Alphabet’s Google GOOGL.O will pay $391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, the Michigan attorney general’s office said ...

A trial opened on Monday over shareholder allegations that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package was rigged with easy performance targets and that investors were duped into ...

The world is moving towards renewable energy, such as PV, in an effort to limit climate change and offset dwindling and progressively more expensive and difficult to extract conventional (coal, ...

The HackAdTech Open Hackathon, dedicated to solving AdTech and MarTech challenges, with an emphasis on improving life on the island will open its doors on November 26. The two-day event plans ...

An electric helicopter with multiple rotors took its first flight in conventional air traffic near Paris on Thursday as it prepares for commercial flights from 2024. The Volocopter test aircraft, which ...

Needless to say, technology has transformed businesses. Most businesses these days are now online. They have employees working remotely from different parts of the world. It helps both employers and ...

A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space ...

Reflect Festival, the largest technology and entrepreneurial event of its kind in Cyprus, wrapped up on Friday evening, October 21, welcoming approximately 5,000 attendees in the process, who flocked to Limassol’s ...

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with ...

With Twitter in disarray since the world’s richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen a flood of new ...

By Vittoria D’alessio Psychedelic drugs are mostly banned in Europe, but new research suggests they may be beneficial to some when taken in a controlled setting. Mind-bending drugs and ...

Cyprus has good applied research and that churns out technologies, but it’s missing the funding. A venture capital fund aims to change all that One of the leading contenders ...

American technology giant Apple continued to dominate the tablet market during the third quarter of the year, with a 40.7 per cent share, according to a report released this week by ...

The main psychoactive ingredient found in magic mushrooms can significantly reduce symptoms of difficult-to-treat depression, data from the largest clinical trial ever to test the keenly-watched compound has found. The ...