Tech & Science

The International Space Station (ISS) is set to become busier than usual this week when its crew welcomes aboard four new colleagues from Houston-based startup Axiom Space, the first all-private ...

With the adoption of the metaverse being seen as a matter of time, US technology company Microsoft warned that past mistakes when new mediums entered the mainstream must be avoided, ...

When Silicon Valley chipmaker Marvell learned that one of its chips was found in a Russian surveillance drone recovered in 2016, it set out to investigate how that came to be. ...

Scientists on Thursday published the first complete human genome, filling in gaps remaining after previous efforts while offering new promise in the search for clues regarding disease-causing mutations and genetic ...

– Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the most distant individual star on record, a bright behemoth they nicknamed Earendel – Old English for “morning star” – because it existed ...

In early February, the most downloaded app from the App Store in Russia was ‘Persona’, a makeup filter app, followed by video conferencing provider Zoom and the online retailer AliExpress (...

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is exploring new suppliers for memory chips used in its iPhones, including a potentially first Chinese supplier, after a key Japanese partner had an output disruption, ...

A US judge ruled on Tuesday that a lawsuit accusing Meta Platforms Inc’s (FB.O) Facebook of deceiving advertisers about its “potential reach” tool can proceed as a class ...

Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) will make it easier for brands to run three-dimensional ads on Facebook and Instagram through a new partnership with an ecommerce technology firm. The integration ...

Today, almost every inhabitant of the earth has heard of such a device as the iPhone. According to Apple reports, there are about 700 million iPhones in use around the world ...

Spinosaurus, the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur, and its closest relatives long have confounded scientists trying to understand how these unusual water-loving beasts lived their lives and hunted prey. Did they wade ...

Tesla Inc TSLA.O Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet on Saturday. Musk was ...

Chief Scientist and Research and Innovation Foundation president Nikolas Mastroyiannopoulos, during an interview with the Cyprus News Agency earlier this week, revealed that the creation of a national knowledge transfer ...

Genome sequencing group Illumina (ILMN.O) on Tuesday launched a cancer test in Europe that checks for a wide range of tumour genes in one tissue sample, potentially helping patients ...

Collaborative robots are the new hotness in industrial automation. Manufacturers in virtually every industry are eager to try them out on the plant floor, but there are a few things ...

Archaeologists have found an ancient lead sarcophagus under Notre-Dame cathedral along with fragments of a rood screen, offering a new insight into the history of the building which is currently ...

Australia’s media regulator will be able to force internet companies to share data about how they have handled misinformation and disinformation under new laws that will bolster government efforts ...

Scientists have discovered that a type of giant tortoise present on one of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands is not from the species it was previously thought to be, Galapagos National ...

An immense crater in northwestern Greenland, buried under a thick sheet of ice and first spotted in 2015, is much older than previously suspected – formed by a meteorite impact 58 million years ...

Egypt’s three biggest state-owned banks are setting up an $85 million financial technology fund that aims to accelerate innovation in the sector, venture capital firm Global Ventures, a partner in ...

Intel on Tuesday picked Germany as the site for a huge chipmaking complex, the first details of its planned $88 billion investment in Europe, as the region scrambles to boost output ...

The Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) on Thursday announced a new funding programme called Collaborative Development – Co-Develop, seeking to bring together Cyprus’ research community with local industry. The programme, aimed ...

The benefits of digital solutions and the resulting improvement in business competitiveness were highlighted at an event in Nicosia on Wednesday. The event was organised by IBM spinoff Kyndryl, whose ...

For the roughly 300 known octopus species dwelling in the world’s oceans, having eight arms is a defining characteristic. But that is not the way it started. Scientists said on ...