New Zealand PM proposes banning under-16s from social media
New Zealand’s prime minister on Tuesday proposed banning children under 16 from social media, stressing the need to shield them from the perils of big tech platforms. Regulators the world over are...
View ArticleUS jury awards WhatsApp $168 million in NSO Group cyberespionage suit
A US jury on Tuesday handed WhatsApp a major victory in its cyberespionage suit against NSO Group, ordering the Israel-based firm to pay some $168 million in damages. Meta-owned WhatsApp sued NSO in...
View ArticleGoogle shares plunge after Apple executive’s court testimony
Shares in Google parent Alphabet plunged more than eight percent on Wednesday after Apple executive Eddy Cue testified in federal court that Google’s search traffic on Apple devices declined last month...
View ArticleJapan’s Panasonic targets 10,000 job cuts worldwide
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, which supplies batteries to Tesla, said Friday it will target 10,000 job cuts worldwide as part of efforts to boost profitability. The cuts, which represent around...
View ArticleEarth could face extreme Geomagnetic Storm tomorrow after massive...
Scientists have warned that a geomagnetic storm could potentially impact Earth tomorrow, May 16, 2025. Earlier this week, a massive solar eruption occurred on the Sun’s northern hemisphere. According...
View ArticleHours-long phone outage downs Spain emergency numbers
A partial outage in Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica’s fixed telephone and internet networks downed some emergency service numbers for hours on Tuesday, the latest incident affecting critical...
View ArticleBill Gates predicts 2-day workweek in ten years, says AI will replace humans...
A major transformation in the way we work could be just a decade away, according to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. In a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Gates shared his...
View ArticleApple iPhone design legend Jony Ive joins OpenAI
The legendary designer behind Apple’s iPhone, Jony Ive, has joined OpenAI to create devices tailored for using generative artificial intelligence, according to a video posted Wednesday by the ChatGPT...
View ArticleUAE hits highest May temperature on record at 50.4C
The United Arab Emirates recorded a sweltering 50.4 degrees Celsius on Friday, its highest temperature for May since it began documenting them in 2003, according to the National Center of Meteorology....
View ArticleChina launches space probe seeking asteroid samples: Xinhua
China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country’s first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua state news agency reported. Beijing has...
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