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Google Doodle pays tribute to French-Iranian photographer Abbas Attar
Google Doodle released a doodle on Friday to mark 80th birthday of French Iranian photographer and journalist Abbas Attar.
The doodle depicts the photographer with his camera in the foreground while the term ‘Google’ can be read in the…
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Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for FTX fraud
NEW YORK: Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in the former billionaire wunderkind's…
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Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani’s YouTube channel deleted
YouTube has deleted the channel of Pakistani data scientist, author, and computer science scholar Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani with more than 3 million subscribers.
Usmani has authored several books on technology, politics, and international…
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India confronts Google over ‘unreliable’ Gemini AI tool
NEW DELHI: India has asked tech firms to seek its approval before the public release of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are "unreliable" or under trial, noting they should also be labelled for the potential to return wrong answers…
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Gaganyaan: India announces four-member crew for space mission
NEW DELHI: India introduced four crew members for its maiden 'Gaganyaan' space voyage, as it aims to become the world's fourth country to send a crewed mission into space just months after a historic landing on the south pole of the moon.…
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Google aims to relaunch Gemini AI image tool
Google plans to relaunch in the next few weeks its AI tool that creates images of people, which it paused last week after inaccuracies in some historical depictions, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said.
Google began offering image…
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US clinches first Moon touchdown in 50 years
WASHINGTON: A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the moon's south pole on Thursday, the first US touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the…
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OpenAI introduces AI model that turns text into video
Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a software that can generate minute-long videos based on text prompts, the company said.
The software, called Sora, is currently available for red teaming, which helps identify flaws in the AI…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain chip in first human
The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink and is recovering well, the company's billionaire founder Elon Musk said.
"Initial results show promising neuron spike detection," Musk said in a post on…
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British teenager behind GTA 6 hack detained indefinitely
LONDON: A teenage member of the Lapsus$ hacking group was sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital for hacking Uber and fintech firm Revolut, and for blackmailing the developers of best-selling video game "Grand Theft Auto".
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Social media platform X back up after global outage
SAN FRANCISCO: Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was restored globally early Thursday, with over 77,000 US users facing issues at the peak of the outage.
Users in Canada, Britain, France and other countries reported…
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‘GTA 6’ first trailer unveiled, release confirmed for 2025
Rockstar Games has officially revealed the trailer for high-anticipated online game “Grand Theft Auto VI.”
The trailer also confirms the game will be available in 2025, and that the title is indeed simply Grand Theft Auto VI for now. No…
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Spotify to lay off 17% of its global workforce
Music streaming giant Spotify will lay off around 1,500 employees, or 17% of its workforce, to bring down costs, after letting 600 of its staff go in January, and 200 more in June.
In a letter to employees, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said the…
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Tesla to start delivering long-delayed Cybertruck
Tesla’s long-delayed Cybertruck will be priced starting at $60,990, over 50% more than what CEO Elon Musk had touted in 2019 and a cost analysts said will draw select, affluent buyers.
The truck, made of shiny stainless steel and shaped…
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Elon Musk curses out advertisers leaving X
Billionaire Elon Musk told advertisers that have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content to "Go (expletive) yourself" in a fiery interview.
His profanity-laced remarks followed a moment of contrition in a New York Times…
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