Apple seeks dismissal of India apps market antitrust case
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has asked India’s antitrust watchdog to throw out a case alleging abuse of market power in the apps market, saying it is too small a ...
Facebook pays fines to Russia over banned content
Facebook (FB.O) has paid 17 million roubles ($229,643) in fines owed in Russia for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, but with the ...
Tech firms say EU rules should ensure they are regulated in their bases
Proposed European Union rules targeting tech companies should ensure that they are regulated in the EU country where they are based, Twitter (TWTR.N), online video platform Vimeo Inc (VMEO....
U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’
Countries taking part in U.N. talks on autonomous weapons stopped short of launching negotiations on an international treaty to govern their use, instead agreeing merely to continue discussions.
The ...
California probes Google’s treatment of Black female workers
California’s civil rights regulator is investigating Google’s treatment of Black female workers following alleged incidents of harassment and discrimination, according to two people familiar with the matter and ...
EU to place order with Pfizer for shots adapted to Omicron
European Union governments have agreed to exercise an option to buy more than 180 million doses of a version of the COVID-19 vaccine adapted for the Omicron variant developed by BioNTech ...
Guide to choosing the right outsourcing electronic design company
Outsourcing provides many opportunities for companies that need resources or specific knowledge. The key to success is the right choice of a remote team. This article provides recommendations on how ...
Germany clears Mercedes-Benz’s hands-free drive system
Germany’s car watchdog has cleared Mercedes-Benz’s semi-autonomous driving system, paving the way for the Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) subsidiary to begin offering its Drive Pilot system internationally.
The ...
US airlines warn 5G wireless could wreak havoc with flights
Major US air carriers warned on Wednesday that plans by wireless carriers to use spectrum for 5G wireless services starting Jan. 5 could disrupt thousands of daily flights and cost air ...
Reddit confidentially files to go public
Reddit Inc, known for its message boards that became the go-to destination for day traders during this year’s meme stock frenzy, said on Wednesday it had confidentially filed for ...
Alien ‘super-Jupiter’ breaks the mold on where planets can exist
One of the largest planets ever detected orbits at an enormous distance around two stars with a combined mass up to 10 times greater than our sun, an extreme celestial family ...
Aleph, Wacker team up to fast-track mass lab meat production
Israeli lab-grown meat startup Aleph Farms and German chemicals maker Wacker Chemie (WCHG.DE) will work together to improve production processes for growth proteins to remove one of the biggest ...
Swedish firm acquires majority stake in Cypriot biotech company
International healthcare and diagnostic services company Medicover has acquired a controlling stake in Cypriot biotechnology NIPD Genetics, according to a statement released by the two companies earlier this month.
“This ...
With lab help, whiskey distillers skip oak barrel-aging. But how does it taste?
In a small lab in California’s Silicon Valley, Martin Janousek and Stu Aaron are making whiskey.
There are no oak barrels stacked floor to ceiling. In fact, there’s ...
Facebook owner is behind $60 mln deal for Meta name rights
Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), the owner of social media network Facebook, is behind a $60 million deal to acquire the trademark assets of US regional bank Meta Financial Group (CASH....
Israel planning trial import of foreign tech workers amid shortage
Israel intends to import foreign workers for its high-tech sector on a trial basis to offset a pandemic-era labour shortage, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday.
In remarks to ...
Intel shows research for packing more computing power into chips beyond 2025
Research teams at Intel Corp (INTC.O) on Saturday unveiled work that the company believes will help it keep speeding up and shrinking computing chips over the next ten years, ...
Tepak takes part in Huawei Road Show event
The Cyprus University of Technology said on Thursday it had participated in the Huawei Road Show event.
The event, which took place for the first time in Cyprus earlier this ...
Daughter of pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard soars to space aboard Blue Origin rocket
The eldest daughter of pioneering U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late ...
Microsoft’s $16 billion Nuance bid set for EU antitrust approval
Microsoft (MSFT.O) is set to secure unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $16 billion bid for artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications (NUAN.O), three people familiar with ...
Trucks catch up in the self-driving vehicle race
We’d all be whizzing round in robotaxis by now if Elon Musk had been right.
Instead, fully self-driving cars are struggling to get away from the starting grid and ...
Nobel Prize-quality discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and unicorns
By Kathy Tzilivakis
As the world’s newest Nobel Prize laureates gather for Nobel Week, EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel speaks about the incredible advancements made by scientists and the EU’...
13 million budget for Research and Innovation Foundation programmes
The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) unveiled on Wednesday three new programmes of a total budget of €13 million, in the framework of Cyprus` recovery and resilience plan.
The programmes were ...
Armoured dinosaur wielded a tail resembling an Aztec war club
More than half a millennium ago, Aztec warriors brandished a weapon called a macuahuitl, a wooden club with jagged obsidian blades embedded on its sides, to inflict gruesome wounds on ...