July 19, 2025 5:58 am
The Novo Nordisk Foundation and Denmark’s state-owned credit fund said on Thursday they will invest in what they say will be the world’s most powerful quantum computer, aiming to revolutionize areas such as drug discovery and materials science. MORE..
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday praised Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla for his “dedication, courage and pioneering spirit”, as the astronaut returned to Earth after spending 18 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS). MORE..
Tesla launched on Tuesday its Model Y at about $70,000 in India, a significant markup relative to its other major markets, reflecting the country’s high tariffs on electric vehicle imports which CEO Elon Musk, has long-criticised. MORE..
Nvidia said it plans to resume sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chip to China, days after its CEO, who is visiting Beijing, met U.S. President Donald Trump. MORE..
54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. MORE..
Bitcoin crossed the $120,000 level for the first time on Monday, marking a major milestone for the world’s largest cryptocurrency as investors bet on long-sought policy wins for the industry this week. MORE..
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI issued a lengthy apology Saturday for a series of violent and antisemitic posts from its Grok chatbot this week, blaming a system update. MORE..
Online spending soared USD 24.1 billion across U.S. retailers during the stretch from July 8 to 11 – dubbed “Black Friday in Summer”, outpacing Adobe Analytics’ prior forecast, as eager shoppers rushed to snap up deep discounts on back-to-school essentials. MORE..
India’s space regulator on Wednesday granted Starlink a licence to launch commercial operations in the country, clearing the only remaining regulatory hurdle for the satellite provider to enter the market. MORE..
Nvidia briefly reached a market capitalization of $4 trillion on Wednesday, making it the first company in the world to reach the milestone and solidifying its position as one of Wall Street’s most-favored stocks. MORE...
Elon Musk-owned X’s CEO Linda Yaccarino said on Wednesday she would step down from the role in a surprise move, just months after the social media platform was acquired by the billionaire’s AI startup, xAI. MORE..
Apple Inc. Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is retiring as the company’s longtime No. 2, marking a major changing of the guard at an already tumultuous time for the iPhone maker. MORE..
The US State Department said it is investigating an imposter who used artificial intelligence to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and contact three foreign ministers. MORE..
Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that demonstrates the technology’s commercial viability. MORE..
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of an ancient city in Peru’s northern Barranca province. MORE..
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he will start talking to China on Monday or Tuesday about a possible TikTok deal. MORE..
The human remains of over 160 people who wanted to float in space after their deaths have now crashed at sea after the space capsule holding them fell into the Pacific Ocean. MORE..
AliExpress has officially suspended several of its budget shipping options to Sri Lanka and Pakistan following the implementation of revised customs tax regulations by the respective authorities. MORE..
Starlink’s high-speed, low-latency satellite internet service is now officially available in Sri Lanka, its owner and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet on Wednesday.
A cyber hacker broke into a database containing the personal information of millions of customers, Qantas said, in Australia’s biggest breach in years and a setback for an airline rebuilding trust after a reputational crisis. MORE..
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group, announced the opening of its third data center in Malaysia on Tuesday and disclosed plans to launch a second data center in the Philippines in October, according to a statement released on Wednesday. MORE..
A ceasefire between Iran and Israel has not ended the threat of cyberattacks from hacking groups supportive of Tehran, the FBI and federal cybersecurity officials warned Monday. MORE..
Canada scrapped its digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms late on Sunday, just hours before it was due to take effect, in a bid to advance stalled trade negotiations with the United States. MORE..
Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate change monitoring satellite on its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final flight before it is replaced by a new flagship model designed to be more cost competitive in the global space market. MORE..
A notorious cybercriminal group has shifted its attention to the aviation industry, successfully breaching the computer networks of multiple airlines in the United States and Canada this month, according to the FBI and private experts responding to the hacks. MORE..