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November 4, 2024 3:06 PM
UAE energy giant ADNOC will apply highly autonomous agentic artificial intelligence in the energy industry for the first time, in partnership with G42, Microsoft and AIQ, its CEO Sultan Al Jaber said on Monday (November 4) at an industry event in Abu Dhabi. The UAE, a wealthy oil producer and longt...
November 3, 2024 11:53 AM
Countries at the U.N. COP16 nature talks in Colombia on Saturday agreed to how companies in sectors such as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics should pay for the use of genetic information drawn from biodiversity in their research and development. Nearly 200 countries convened in the Colombian city of C...
November 2, 2024 7:26 PM
It might just make space exploration a little more sustainable. Scientists in Japan are set to test the world’s first wooden satellite. The LignoSat was developed by a team from Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry. It will be launched next week atop a SpaceX rocket, bound for the...
November 1, 2024 5:53 PM
Indonesia said it has banned sales of smartphones made by Alphabet's Google due to rules requiring the use of locally manufactured components, days after blocking sales of tech giant Apple's iPhone 16 for the same reason. Indonesia blocked sales of Google Pixel phones because the company has not me...
November 1, 2024 3:43 PM
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched India's inaugural analog space mission in Leh, Ladakh, marking a pioneering step in the nation’s space exploration efforts. The mission, spearheaded by ISRO’s Human Spaceflight Centre, brings together partners from AAKA Space Studio, the...
November 1, 2024 11:51 AM
Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to academic papers and analysts. In a June paper reviewed by Reuters, six Chinese researchers from three inst...
October 31, 2024 12:35 PM
The crowd-sourced fact-checking feature of Elon Musk's X, Community Notes, is "failing to counter false" claims about the U.S. election, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said in a report on Wednesday. Out of the 283 misleading posts that CCDH has analyzed, 209 or 74% of the posts did n...
October 30, 2024 3:19 PM
Cryptocurrency-linked accounts on the social media platform X are increasingly amplifying Beijing’s propaganda, with investigations revealing their connection to "Spamouflage," a covert Chinese disinformation campaign targeting Western audiences. According to a report by Voice of America (VOA), t...
October 30, 2024 3:22 PM
China sent three astronauts on Wednesday to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the construction of human habitats. The spacecraft Shenzhou-19 and its three crew lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Sa...
October 30, 2024 11:17 AM
The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in the violent explosion, called a supernova, of a massive dying star. But some, it turns out, may be born in a gentler fashion. Researche...
