Sci-Tech

October 29, 2024 12:17 PM

Brazil institute sues social media giants for $525 mln over usage by minors

Brazil's Collective Defense Institute, a consumer rights group, has filed two lawsuits demanding 3 billion reais ($525.27 million) from the Brazilian units of TikTok, Kwai and Meta Platforms for allegedly failing to create mechanisms to prevent indiscriminate use of these social media platforms by m...

October 27, 2024 3:17 PM

Elon Musk briefly worked illegally in US in 1990s: Report

South African-born billionaire businessman Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States for a brief period in the 1990s while building a startup company, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. The news outlet reported that Musk arrived in Palo Alto, California, in 1995 to attend Stanford Univ...

October 26, 2024 9:21 AM

Scientists document lost mountain cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route from the 6th to 11th centuries AD - the bigger one a center for the metal industry and the other reflecting early Islamic ...

October 25, 2024 3:14 PM

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts return safely to Earth

Space X's Crew-8 astronauts returned to Earth on the Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station on Friday (October 25). The spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin splashed down off the Florida coast at a...

October 24, 2024 10:10 AM

Tesla promises paid robotaxis next year, but significant hurdles remain

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said the electric vehicle maker will roll out driverless ride-hailing services to the public in California and Texas next year, a claim likely to face significant regulatory and technical challenges. "We think that we'll be able to have driverless Teslas doing paid ...