Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said it has exchanged lists of nuclear facilities with India as part of a bilateral pact that bars them from attacking each other’s nuclear facilities
Company’s share price has risen twentyfold after it changed its strategy to become first ‘bitcoin treasury company’ In the summer of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic upended economies around the world, an obscure US software firm decided...
As I compulsively check my new device, ping-ponging between real and virtual spaces, I can feel my adolescent self eye-rolling at me across the decades More summer essentials They say it’s good to let something go to mark one year’s turn...
The nation's biggest transit systems are using AI-enhanced cameras to keep bus lanes clear of illegally parked cars. That's making buses move faster, but the rollout has hit a few speed bumps.
Claims a Chinese state-sponsored actor was behind breach this month are ‘groundless’, says foreign ministry Beijing has hit back at accusations that a China state-sponsored actor was behind a cyber breach at the US treasury department,...
The revelation comes as the U.S. grapples with a massive cyberespionage campaign that gave Chinese officials access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.
Computer system errors led to huge costs for countries as they prepared for potential disaster On New Year’s Eve 25 years ago, sane people worried that the modern world was about to melt down. The millennium bug seemed to be threatening...
Analysts argue 2024 is minor blip and that lobbying for relaxation of rules could harm industry in long term Affordable new electric family cars – particularly those that are EU-made – have been tough to come by in Europe for the past...
As soon as people decide that crypto is valueless, it will be – but in the next few years, exposure of traditional institutions will likely run into the hundreds of billions As a principal adviser to the then treasurer Wayne Swan, Jim...
Third-party cybersecurity provider was compromised after hackers obtained key to override certain systems Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the US treasury department earlier this month, accessing several employee workstations and...
Jeff Bezos' newest rocket is now one step closer to liftoff. On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it granted a commercial license to launch Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, the first step to be completed before the company...
Match Group’s digital assistant will tailor profiles and search for dates – but critics fear genuine connections are at risk Fed up with writing dating profiles? Or sick and tired of swiping? Dating apps not really doing it for you? Let...
UK culture minister says government wants to ‘open a dialogue’, but will intervene if platforms do not comply The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has written to video-sharing platforms, such as YouTube and TikTok, urging them to...
QAnon followers played an outsized role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. While the online conspiracy community is less prominent now, it still draws attention from GOP politicians.
LG's 2025 UltraGear GX9 gaming monitors include two models. The 45GX990A offers a 45" 5K2K (5120x2160) Dual-Mode bendable WOLED panel (that can turn from flat to curved 900R). Other features include DisplayPort 2.1 support and HDMI 2.1...
Study predicts an ‘intention economy’ where companies bid for accurate predictions of human behaviour Artificial intelligence (AI) tools could be used to manipulate online audiences into making decisions – ranging from what to buy to who...
Schools everywhere have been wrestling with how and where to incorporate artificial intelligence, but many are fast-tracking applications for students with disabilities, reports the AP . Its story draws on the example of 14-year-old girl...
In the shift to renewable energy, recycled copper is gold—and mining companies are therefore interested in our old electronics. "In the next 25 years we will consume more copper than humanity has consumed until now," Kunal Sinha, the...
While we certainly don’t encourage people to turn away from the news, we also know it’s important to take breaks Doomscrolling happens to the best of us. Algorithms across social platforms are finely tuned to feed you content and posts...
China-based Bengbu Zhongguang Optoelectronics Technology, in collaboration with researchers from the CNBM Glass New Materials Research Institute have developed China's first 8.6-Gen glass substrate product. The reports from China suggest...
The new US president will almost certainly bring unpredictability but several themes will dominate the year ahead. Observer writers offer their guide on what lies ahead in politics, film, fashion, sport and more The only thing that can...
People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
Typically, stories about the dangers of driverless cars focus on accidents with other vehicles or pedestrians. But the Washington Post reports on a different type of risk being encountered more and more by Waymo taxi passengers in San...
Biofeedback devices promised a whole new world of mental and physical harmony. They did change my life, but not in the way I’d hoped I love to run, but ask me about my running times or distances and I will have no idea. For me, running...
Planes were going to drop out of the sky, nuclear reactors would explode. But then … nothing. What really happened with Y2K? People still disagree … Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, 25 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II stepped off a...
Almost 190 Facebook content moderators in Kenya have sued Facebook parent Meta and the outsourcing firm who hired them, alleging intentional infliction of mental harm , among other woes. Court filings viewed by the Guardian reveal the...
A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an...