The four astronauts selected for NASA's Artemis II mission were due to arrive in Florida on Friday, entering the final phase of preparations for the first crewed journey toward the Moon in more than five decades. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian a
Jurors in the first two trials in the US from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over harm to children have found Meta (META.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google liable, potentially teeing up an appeals fight that could reshape how US law shields tech companies from lawsuits. I
Namibia declined licence applications from Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink for failing to satisfy ownership and compliance criteria, the country's telecommunications regulator said on Wednesday. A notice in the Southern African country's government gazette on Monday showed Starlin
An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has a problem with an antenna so it will have to be manually docked when it reaches the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation said in a statement. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket launched the Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft
Russia may develop a nuclear power station on the Moon within the next five to seven years, Mikhail Kovalchuk, president of Russia's Kurchatov Institute, said Thursday. Kovalchuk made the remarks while attending a meeting of the government of the Leningrad region to discuss issues of scientific an
A powerful software exploit capable of penetrating and stealing information from potentially hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones was planted on dozens of websites in Ukraine in recent weeks, researchers said on Wednesday. The discovery marks the second time this month that researchers have found
Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its artificial intelligence models. Britannica said in the complaint filed on Friday that Microsoft-backed OpenAI used its online
British teenagers, like their peers abroad, have a conflicted relationship with social media. They know it can feed them a diet of “brain rot” content that keeps them glued to their phones while making money for big tech. Yet it is central to their lives, and many do not think it is th
The final working day before the long Eid holiday now carries a distinctly different festive vibe at offices. Amid work pressure, one of the main missions for junior colleagues becomes banding together to collect salami from their seniors. These exchanges often create light‑hearted moments and che
Alibaba Group (9988.HK) Chief Executive Eddie Wu will head the newly formed Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group, the firm said in a statement on Monday. The new group will comprise existing Alibaba units Tongyi Laboratory, MaaS Business Line, Qwen Business Unit, Wukong Business Unit
