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February 26, 2025 4:13 PM

Meta must face lawsuit claiming it prefers cheaper foreign workers

A federal judge on Tuesday said Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit claiming that the Facebook and Instagram parent prefers to hire foreign workers because it can pay them less than American workers. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said three U.S. citizens who accused Meta of re...

February 25, 2025 6:33 PM

DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in

DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors. Now, the Hangzhou-based firm is accelerating the launch of the successor ...

February 25, 2025 1:08 PM

Evidence of beaches from ancient Martian ocean detected by Chinese rover

Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China's Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of what look like sandy beaches from the shoreline of a large ocean that may have existed long ago on the northern plains of Mars. The findings are the latest evidence indicating...

February 24, 2025 11:04 AM

Musk’s Starlink races with Chinese rivals to dominate satellite internet

Space is about to get more crowded for Elon Musk. The billionaire's Starlink communications network is facing increasingly stiff challenges to its dominance of high-speed satellite internet, including from a Chinese state-backed rival and another service financed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. S...

February 24, 2025 9:41 AM

Art Meets Technology: Sharjah Light Festival Transforms the Emirates Skyline

The 14th annual Sharjah Light Festival concludes today after transforming the emirate's iconic landmarks into a spectacular canvas of light and sound for nearly three weeks. The festival, which opened in the first week of February, has drawn thousands of international visitors to witness the city's ...

February 23, 2025 7:14 PM

AI downloads in India surpass US, China: FM Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has highlighted the rapid pace of innovation in India and the country's leadership position in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). In her address at the convocation ceremony of IIIT Kottayam, she pointed out Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's comment that In...

February 22, 2025 3:42 PM

North Korea seen using ChatGPT in AI education

North Korea is apparently using ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service developed by OpenAI of the United States, in its higher education AI studies, according to a media report on Saturday. According to the report from Voice of Korea, a Pyongyang external propaganda outlet, memb...

February 21, 2025 11:46 AM

US says it will drop immigration case against SpaceX

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk's space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants. The Justice Department last month signaled it could back away from the case, brought during Democratic President Joe Biden's term. Musk,...

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