Twitter back up for many users after global outage
Twitter (TWTR.N) was coming back online on Thursday after an hour-long outage kept thousands of users across the globe from accessing the social media website.
The outage affected nearly 2,000 ...
Deutsche Telekom to sell towers stake for $17.5 bln
Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) has agreed to sell 51 per cent of its towers business to a consortium of Canada’s Brookfield and US private equity firm DigitalBridge after they placed ...
Computer chips face toilet paper hoarding moment as shortage turns to glut
A supply chain crisis triggered by the global pandemic deprived makers of PCs and smartphones to cars of computer chips needed to make their products.
All that suddenly changed over ...
Cyprus university partners up with multinational software company
The Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) earlier this week entered into a partnership agreement with software company SoftOne Cyprus.
The partnership was ratified through the signing of a memorandum of ...
NASA officials gather to unveil Webb telescope’s first full-colour images
Following a presidential sneak peek of a galaxy-studded image from deep in the cosmos, NASA officials gathered on Tuesday to unveil more of their initial showcase from the James Webb ...
Cyprus space agency takes part in biggest astronomical event in thirty years
The first images from NASA’s new state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope will be revealed today in simultaneous broadcasts around the world in collaboration with various organisations, including the Cyprus ...
Biden unveils Webb space telescope’s first full-color image of distant galaxies
U.S. President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, on Monday released the debut photo from NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope – ...
STMicro, GlobalFoundries to build French microchip plant, Le Figaro reports
GlobalFoundries Inc (GFS.O) and STMicroelectronics will announce on Monday plans to build a semiconductor factory in France for an investment of nearly 4 billion euros, as part of Europe’s ...
Higgs boson: ten years after its discovery
Why this particle could unlock new physics beyond the standard model
By Martin Bauer and Stephen Jones
Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps ...
Kim Dayan outlines her influences for success
The beautiful Israeli model, beautician, businesswoman, and influencer, Kim Dayan, can undoubtedly attest that one needs more than just hard work to succeed. For Kim, motivation, the pursuit of excellence, ...
Hello James! Smart robot is a home companion for older adults
An easy-to-use robot allows elderly to age well in the digital world
Elderly people in Cyprus and abroad found themselves more isolated than ever during the coronavirus pandemic. Studies have ...
Ancient jawbone, 1.4 million years old, could give glimpse of Europe’s earliest humans
Archaeologists in Spain said on Friday they had dug up an ancient jawbone that could help them look into the face of some of the earliest human ancestors in Europe.
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Chips drive highest Samsung Q2 profit since 2018, but demand cooling
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) turned in its best April-June profit since 2018 on Thursday, underpinned by strong sales of memory chips to server customers even as demand ...
Rogers services restored for majority of customers after Canada-wide outage
Rogers Telecommunication RCIb.TO said on Saturday that it has restored services for the majority of its customers after a service outage at one of Canada’s biggest telecom operators ...
Virtual reality market to become more competitive
All eyes will be on Apple as it launches first headset next year
The virtual reality (VR) market is set to become more competitive in the coming years, with Apple ...
Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla TSLA.O and the world’s richest person, said he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter TWTR.N because the ...
Cyprus Business Now
The Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) on Friday announced the launch of a new call for proposals for the programme titled ‘Proof of Concept for Technology and Knowhow Applications’.
The ...
Volkswagen, partners to invest over $20 bln in car battery business
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) said on Thursday it would invest over 20 billion euros ($20.38 billion) in a battery cell business jointly with partners, creating 20,000 jobs and reaching annual sales above 20 billion ...
How the music of an ancient rock painting was brought to life
By Neil Rusch & Sarah Wurz
Archaeologists spend a lot of time examining the remains of distant pasts, which includes the study of rock paintings. This is largely visual work – ...
Cryptoverse: The bonfire of the NFTs
The NFT dream isn’t dead, but it’s taken a big non-fungible beating.
The market shone gloriously last year as crypto-rich speculators spent billions of dollars on the risky ...
The value of computer vision for online platforms
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency notes that, “The production and trafficking of counterfeit goods poses a significant health and safety threat to consumers”. Additionally, they point out the ...
How Call Me Hood uses games to create hip-hop
Video games have never ceased entertaining fans since they first came into arcades in the 1970s. Since then, gaming consoles like the Atari console, the Game Boy, Nintendo, Play Station, ...
Dream of unlimited, clean nuclear fusion energy within reach
The old joke is that nuclear fusion is always 30 years away. Yet the dream of abundant clean energy is no laughing matter as we meet an ITER researcher to catch ...
Metaverse starting to impact buying decisions
The influence of virtuality reality, as well as the metaverse as a consumer channel, is only in its nascent stages, but it may already affect the way organisations and sellers ...