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For years, a little-known company called Tooling & Equipment International (TEI) has helped Tesla (TSLA.O) push back the frontiers of “gigacasting”, ...
Glencore (GLEN.L), ExxonMobil (XOM.N) and Stellantis (STLAM.MI) are among companies lobbying for policies that conflict with their own pledges to cut carbon emissions, a study published by ...
Microsoft (MSFT.O) this week announced a duo of custom-designed computing chips, joining other big tech firms that – faced with the high cost of delivering artificial intelligence services – are bringing ...
China’s Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK) on Thursday posted a 16 per cent fall in revenue for the three months through September, meeting market expectations, as supply for personal computers (PCs) ...
The board of the company behind ChatGPT on Friday fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman – to many, the human face of generative AI – sending shock waves across the tech industry.
OpenAI’...
‘In Cyprus, when you’re rich, everyone wants to know you. If you’re not, good luck finding friends!’ Alix Norman meets the man helping the island form lasting friendships
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Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) unveiled its first high-performance electric vehicle(EV), an N sport variant of its IONIQ 5 crossover SUV.
The South Korean automaker said that the IONIQ 5 N, which will ...
OpenAI, whose generative AI products initially raised fears of widespread cheating on homework, is now exploring how it can get its popular ChatGPT chatbot into classrooms, according to a senior ...
The University of Cyprus (UCY) this week announced that it is set to host a two-day event on artificial intelligence, called AI Days, on November 27-28.
In its announcement, the ...
Electric-vehicle sales are seeing continued strength globally with China reporting record monthly sales in October despite the end of subsidies, according to market research firm Rho Motion.
China ended an 11...
Google (GOOGL.O) was fined 15 million roubles ($164,000) on Tuesday for repeated refusal to store Russian users’ data on servers inside Russia, a Moscow court said.
Russia has repeatedly clashed with ...
British petrol station operator EG Group will buy Tesla’s (TSLA.O) ultra-fast charging units to help roll out its electric vehicle charging network across Europe, it said on Monday.
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Europe is seeking to use emissions and residues from winemaking for new products ranging from animal feed to antibiotic alternatives.
By Alex Whiting
In Palmela, a wine region near Portugal’...
The top US consumer financial watchdog recently proposed to regulate tech giants’ digital payments and smartphone wallet services, saying they rival traditional payment methods in scale and scope but lack ...
Big Tech firms will face new European Union rules to clearly label political advertising on their platforms, who paid for it and how much and which elections are being targeted, ...
Amazon (AMZN.O) is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model (LLMs), hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet (GOOGL.O), two people familiar with ...
Ebay (EBAY.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue and profit below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday and joined other e-commerce platforms in sounding the alarm on weaker-than-expected consumer spending.
San Jose, California-based ...
Samsung and Qualcomm are among those opposing India’s choice of technology to bring live TV broadcasts on smartphones, arguing the required hardware changes will push up a device’s ...
The precious metal’s role as far back as antiquity offers a window into the rise and fall of past civilisations.
By Gareth Willmer
Vikings, traditionally depicted as primitive bearded ...
A number of technology and business experts this week stressed that while Cyprus holds great promise as a technological destination, more efforts are needed to establish a knowledge-based economy on ...
China’s ByteDance, the parent of short video app TikTok, is offering to buy back shares from its employees outside the United States for $160 apiece, a source familiar with the ...
An EU tribunal made legal errors when it ruled in favour of Apple over a 13-billion-euro ($14 billion) tax order and should review the case again, an adviser to Europe’s ...
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI will be integrated into his social media platform X and also be available as a standalone app, he said on Sunday in a ...