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TECHNOLOGY is playing an increasingly important role in helping humanitarian organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. From AI-powered analysis of satellite and drone imagery to cloud-based platforms that enable real-time collaboration, digital tools are helping first responders and aid agenc…
CEBU CITY — The devastation left by Typhoon Tino in 2025 has prompted Cebu City to reassess how it monitors floods, mobilizes rescuers and evacuates residents, with officials now considering technology that could provide earlier warnings to vulnerable communities.
LOS CABOS, Mexico — Ben James ran off five straight birdies around the turn and finished with an aggressive tee shot for one last birdie and an 8-under 64 on Friday to build a one-shot lead going into the weekend at the World Wide Technology Championship.
TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is considering expanding into advanced memory chip production, in a move that would allow it to capture a larger share of the artificial intelligence (AI) hardware market, The Information reported on Friday.
SEVENTY-NINE percent of business decision-makers surveyed in Asia-Pacific said their organizations are directing too much artificial intelligence investment toward incremental improvements rather than opportunities to transform their businesses, according to a report released this week.
Hackers accessed names, contact details and total spend, but not payment details or passwords, the company said.
Tech companies like the idea, as they largely eliminate community opposition, and could cut down on utility costsWhile Elon Musk has often touted putting datacenters in space, reports suggest that another geographic area may soon become a widespread target: our lakes and oceans.Two underwater datacenters are already…
Semi-retired professor Carolyn Marvin became a local celebrity facing down Philadelphia’s growing robot delivery army: ‘It’s my first amendment right to protest’“One of you needs to be on the lookout for cops, while I block the robot, OK?”It is a crisp fall morning in Philadelphia. Tucked away in a dingy alley, oppo…
Instead of using standard white light to illuminate the soil, the Danish prototype uses LEDs set to 16 different wavelengths, ranging from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared.
A top university in China’s eastern Jiangsu province has rolled back a controversial feature of its AI-powered classroom tracking system following fierce public backlash. Students at Nanjing University were recently notified by the university that it would begin using its “smart classroom” system – upgraded over the…
Videos showing a glowing Guanyin, or Goddess of Mercy, carried by a drone and another similar device disguised as a crane have attracted significant attention on Chinese social media. Together, the two devices recreate the traditional funeral send-off in which the deceased is said to “ascend to heaven.” In China, a …
Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months agoIn early 2026, Thailand’s datacentre industry was on a roll. The country’s board of investment had recently announced approval of datacentre projects from Tiktok, a UAE-based Skyline datacentre and Singap…
Researchers say popular performers covertly market OnlyFans content and tell followers about wealthy lifestyleTikTok is helping to promote and normalise the sex industry, allowing “sexfluencers” to post videos aimed at marketing pornographic content they have uploaded elsewhere on sites such as OnlyFans, a report in…
The next US-China talk on artificial intelligence should begin with a simple question: do the two governments actually understand how rapidly AI’s capabilities are improving? Before deciding what to do about the technology, Washington and Beijing need a common way to measure its progress. Chinese President Xi Jinpin…
'It would facilitate Gaza genocide': Protesters storm Microsoft planned site Several hundred activists occupied the construction site of a planned Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam on Friday, protesting the technology giant's alleged role in facilitating Israel's genocide in Gaza, as well as the environmental impac…
Unlike psychologists or dedicated digital therapeutics, consumer AI systems carry no clinical mandate and have no recognized safeguards for managing psychological crises.
A company whose machines are trained to predict the next word has left one for us to supply. On Friday (November 6), Alibaba’s Qwen released a poster without a model name or a benchmark. Birds gather above a dark sea, their flock taking the shape of a fish. Beneath them, one classical Chinese sentence stops […] The …
Stablecoins are moving from the fringes of crypto to the center of finance. The US Genius Act requires issuers to hold reserves one-for-one in cash, deposits, and short-term Treasuries. That makes a digital dollar redeemable. But it does not answer a deeper question: what makes money stable? For a stablecoin, the an…
The lifestyle of a hacker or elite technology worker for North Korea is grueling. PSCORE executive director Nam Bada says, 'There is always pressure to keep earning money.'
The application, called Aswatcom, allegedly enabled activists to track voter participation in real time at individual polling stations and manage the party's election-day operations.
The $1.5 Billion Library Card Authored by Jay Rogers via American Greatness,AI companies won the argument about learning from books. They lost the argument about stealing them. Both sides of this fight have a reason to blur the two.On July 20, a federal judge in San Francisco gave final approval to the largest publi…
NOAA's Robot Found A Golden Orb 3,250 Meters Down. Scientists Finally Figure Out What It Was The "golden orb" that stumped NOAA's deep-sea team in 2023 is the discarded base of a giant deep-sea anemone, according to a preprint posted to bioRxiv on April 21 and a NOAA release the next day. The orb turned up on Aug. 3…
The tech mogul’s pet project, which he insisted was Tesla’s best product, meets an unceremonious end as the electric vehicle maker shifts its focus to building robotaxis.
Trump-Xi Busan deal aimed to ease tariffs and tech restrictions; progress hinges on China's fulfilment of commitments.
TSMC May Enter The Memory Chip Production Game Amid Global Squeeze Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is reportedly considering producing advanced memory chips as a severe chip shortage squeezes margins at some of the world's largest device makers and pushes up prices for products ranging from Apple's iPhones to…
Cybersecurity experts tell VOA that the recent North Korean hack of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is particularly concerning because of the speed of both the attack, and how quickly the hackers moved the assets through financial networks.
NEW YORK, United States — Tech shares rose Friday, recovering a fraction of losses from the prior session's rout as the dollar rallied after better than expected US jobs data.
Father Of Doomed Learjet's 20-Year-Old Co-Pilot Breaks Silence On Her Final Mayday The co-pilot of the Learjet that crashed into a Greenacres, Florida, neighborhood on Sunday was 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras. Her father, Allan Filgueiras, confirmed her identity to NBC Miami. Her sister, Giulia, said the f…
Data centres face protests across Europe due to the massive amounts of computing power and water they use.
Tech for less before Black Friday.
Dreaming Of Your Own "Human Drone"? FAA Throws Wrench In Part 103 Flight Plan Planning to buy a single-seat electric multicopter and zip around Class G airspace under Part 103 ultralight rules? The Federal Aviation Administration may have just grounded those hopes and dreams. YouTuber Jimmy (Jimmys World) recently f…
SMU and Virginia Tech will meet in a must-win game Friday night.
The adorable tech was teased at Disney Studios in Burbank this week.
LeBron James' cease-and-desist letter to PlayVision Inc. after a Bron AI sports betting app used an AI-generated clone of his likeness and voice makes sense.
Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan is charged with planting a recording device in a conference room at artificial intelligence giant OpenAI.
Automotive analyst Felipe Munoz said that although the Cybertruck has been called a failure because of its poor sales, electric pickups from Ford and others have also flopped in the US market.
Congressional committee seeking to learn more about 'Nvidia's security protocols against foreign adversary espionage', letter says
The biggest cultural infrastructure build since the Sydney Opera House officially opens today on a site that was once an old car park.
AI Designer Babies? Thiel-Backed Startup Claims 14-Point IQ Boost A startup backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund says its latest model can sort IVF embryos by intelligence, with 14 IQ points between the top and bottom of a batch of ten."AI is rapidly getting smarter. Now, humanity can too," Nucleus Genomics founder…
The tech sell-off exposes fragile promises, while Democratic victories offer a chance to protect workers and hold firms accountableThis week’s midterms showed that the political bill for the AI boom is falling due. The Democratic sweep intensified fears over runaway spending, mounting debt and resistance to datacent…
MANILA, Philippines — The GSMA has urged stronger regional cooperation among telecommunications companies, technology platforms and governments to combat online scams, saying 60 to 70 percent of scams originate outside the country where victims are targeted.
One Texas Tech basketball player made history this week.
Greenpeace activists unfurled a giant 26-by-26-metre banner outside a data centre construction site in Beringen, northeastern Switzerland, on Friday 6 November, protesting against the growing environmental impact of major technology companies.
Major investors question Anthropic's $1.5 trillion valuation as a sweeping AI selloff raises the prospect of a smaller IPO or delayed listing.
Political turmoil comes after a digital bank's failure has left half the population without access to their accounts.
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After Thursday’s share price plunge on Wall Street, could the volatility be the start of a huge market meltdown?Global financial markets have been thrown into a tailspin as investors bet on an AI slowdown after the US midterm elections.This is not the first time stock markets have wobbled in recent months due to con…
