German Lithium Plant Hopes To Turbo-charge Europe's EV Makers
Now an Australian firm says it can help, with a refinery in Germany set to extract the sought-after mineral from briny underground water deep below a town near the French border.
Nintendo Courts Non-gamers In 'About-turn' Strategy
Once confined to rectangular screens, chirpy plumber Mario and pointy-eared Princess Zelda are popping up in theme parks and toy stores as Nintendo goes all out to win non-gamer fans.
Tech Sector Gathers In Lisbon In Shadow Of Trump Victory
The tech industry is holding its breath to see what Trump's second term will bring when he takes over in January, especially as SpaceX and Tesla chief Elon Musk is expected to have a huge influence on the next US government.
Pharrell Williams To Bring Star Power To Web Summit Tech Event
The event will bring together some 70,000 attendees with more than 3,000 startups and 1,000 investors, according to the organizers.
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Fake X Accounts Promote COP Hosts UAE, Azerbaijan
Analysed by AFP over several days, the large-scale operation, powered by artificial intelligence, points to a sophisticated, coordinated influence campaign not unlike those carried out by Russia in recent years -- though its instigator and objectives remain unclear.
OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Search Engine, Taking On Google
OpenAI on Thursday beefed up its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabilities, as the startup takes on Google's decades-long dominance of web search.
Apple Narrowly Beats Estimates With Boost From IPhone Sales
The tech giant saw quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion in the three months ending September 28, up from the same period last year, in a closely watched report as investors seek to gauge demand for its latest iPhones.
Indonesia Adds Google Pixel Phones To Ban List With IPhone 16
Jakarta is seeking to boost investment from foreign tech companies with restrictive measures that require their phones to be 40 percent sourced from parts in Indonesia.
Microsoft Beats Expectations, But AI Concerns Force Shares Down
Microsoft delivered solid quarterly results on Wednesday, beating analyst expectations with revenue jumping 16 percent to $65.6 billion, but questions were raised about the company's big spending on the AI boom.
Meta Shows Strong Growth As AI Spending Surges
Facebook owner Meta saw net income and revenues top expectations on Wednesday as the company said it would expand investments into artificial intelligence, drawing nervousness from investors.
Google Reports Strong Growth Driven By AI, Cloud
The results showed that Google is holding its own despite worry that the search engine juggernaut has been caught short in the AI race.
Apple Rolls Out AI Features Across Devices
The release, first previewed by the company in June, marks Apple's foray into an AI race that has seen the US tech giants rush into ChatGPT-style technology.
China's Only Woman Spaceflight Engineer In Crew For 'Dream' Mission
The new Tiangong team will carry out experiments with an eye to the space programme's ambitious goal of placing astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and eventually constructing a lunar base.
Microsoft Pushes For Gaming Supremacy With 'Call Of Duty' Release
The US software giant bought the game's publisher Activision-Blizzard a year ago for $69 billion in the sector's biggest takeover.
President Ramaphosa Highlights EV Shift As Key Opportunity For South African Industries
President Ramaphosa noted that this shift presents a great industrialization opportunity for South Africa and the region, especially within the framework of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Instagram Moves To Face Rising Tide Of Sextortion Scams
The measures include stricter controls on who can follow or message teen accounts and safety notices in Instagram direct messages and Facebook Messenger about suspicious cross-country conversations.
Tech Giants Go Nuclear In AI Arms Race
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are now looking to outgun each other with announcements on atomic energy, which they hope will power a technology that is consuming electricity at an alarming rate.
TikTok, Facebook Approve Ads With US Election Disinformation, Study Says
The advocacy group Global Witness submitted eight ads containing false election claims to the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, the Meta-owned Facebook, and Google-owned YouTube to test their ad systems in the final stretch of the November 5 election.
Drought Forces Big Tech To Rethink Thirsty LatAm Data Centers
Data centers housing huge servers are springing up around the world to store the flood of data sucked up from billions of smartphones, tablets and other connected devices.
Myanmar And China Have Lowest Internet Freedom, Says Study
Myanmar and China have the world's worst internet freedom, with declines reported in a number of other countries led by Kyrgyzstan, a study said Wednesday.
Fake AI History Photos Cloud The Past
A wave of touching photos showing great moments in time is fascinating amateur historians online.
In Milestone, SpaceX 'Catches' Megarocket Booster After Test Flight
The "super heavy booster" had blasted off attached to the uncrewed Starship rocket minutes earlier, then made a picture-perfect controlled return to the same pad in Texas.
Is Life Possible On A Jupiter Moon? NASA Goes To Investigate
The Europa Clipper mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about the moon, which scientists believe could hold an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface.
Musk Unveils Robotaxi, Pledges It 'Before 2027'
Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled what he said was a robotaxi capable of self-driving, predicting it would be available by 2027 -- about a decade after he first promised an autonomous vehicle.
Internet Archive Reels From 'Catastrophic' Cyberattack, Data Breach
The assault on the San Francisco-based nonprofit, claimed by a shadowy group that experts described as a pro-Palestinian "hacktivist," lays bare the perils of cybersecurity breaches ahead of the November 5 US presidential election.
Brazil Lifts Ban On Musk's X, Ending Standoff Over Disinformation
Brazil's Supreme Court said Tuesday it was lifting a ban on Elon Musk's social network X, which was blocked in its biggest Latin American market for over a month amid a row over disinformation.
Will Tesla's Robotaxi Reveal Live Up To Hype?
The Tesla CEO has so far offered few details about exactly what will be unveiled at Thursday's event, dubbed "We, Robot," which will take place at Warner Brothers studio in Los Angeles.
'Appeals Centre' To Referee EU Social Media Disputes
An independent appeals panel was unveiled Tuesday to decide disputes between social media firms and their users in the European Union over content posted on their platforms.
Taiwan's Foxconn Says Building World's Largest 'Superchip' Plant
Foxconn, also known by its official name Hon Hai Precision Industry, is the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturer and assembles devices for major tech companies, including Apple.
Weather May Delay Launch Of Mission To Study Deflected Asteroid
Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe's Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday, SpaceX has said.
AI Bubble Or 'Revolution'? OpenAI's Big Payday Fuels Debate
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI secured $6.6 billion in a funding round that propelled its valuation to an eye-popping $157 billion, sparking new worries there is an AI bubble poised to burst.
Hera Spacecraft To Probe Asteroid Deflected By Defence Test
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defences.
Germany Inaugurates IBM's First European Quantum Data Centre
The center -- IBM's first outside the United States, and located in Ehningen, near Stuttgart -- will allow dozens of European companies and research institutes to gain access to its quantum systems.
X Agrees To Pay Brazil Fines, Court Orders Finances Unblocked
The ruling by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes paves the way for the suspension of X to be lifted in Brazil, where it has been off-limits to users since August 31 in a standoff over disinformation between the judge and Musk.
