SpaceX and NASA said on Friday they plan to launch the space agency’s Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Aug. 18. MORE..
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service has been activated in a hospital in the Gaza Strip with the help of the United Arab Emirates and Israel, the SpaceX chief executive said. MORE..
The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization was made public on Sunday (21). MORE..
Tesla will have humanoid robots in low production for the company’s internal use next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Monday, months after he announced that the rollout would be by the end of 2024. MORE..
A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday. MORE..
As the world on Saturday marks the 55th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, hopes are high that another giant leap in lunar exploration is fast approaching. MORE..
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said Friday that an issue that has caused major disruptions to companies worldwide is not a security incident or cyberattack. MORE..
A raft of global institutions - including major banks, media outlets and airlines - have reported being hit by a mass IT outage. MORE..
Japanese scientists have devised a way to attach living skin tissue to robotic faces and make them “smile,” in a breakthrough that holds out promise of applications in cosmetics and medicine. MORE..
Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California. MORE..
Disney has confirmed it is investigating an apparent leak of internal messages by a hacking group, which claims it is “protecting artists’ rights”. MORE..
Bitcoin surged to a two-week high on Monday after the attempted assassination of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump raised the odds of the former president, who has presented himself as a champion of cryptocurrency, winning the upcoming election. MORE..
NASA released on Friday a pair of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing two galaxies - one nicknamed the Penguin and the other the Egg - in the process of merging in sort of a cosmic ballet as the U.S. space agency marked two years since it unveiled the orbiting observatory’s first scientific results. MORE..
The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon emissions, California officials said Friday, demonstrating the ship. MORE..
Telecom industry group GSMA announced on Wednesday a global coalition of companies, organisations and financial institutions that will seek to make smartphones more accessible and affordable for some of the world’s poorest populations. MORE..
The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth. MORE..
Samsung Electronics expects its profits for the three months to June 2024 to jump 15-fold compared to the same period last year. MORE..
Indian social media platform Koo is discontinuing its services, its top boss said in a social media post. MORE..
Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to frustrate counterfeiters. MORE..
A space rocket owned by a private Chinese company accidentally launched itself during a test on Sunday, before crash landing into a hillside. MORE..
Facebook owner Meta is considering blocking news content from the platform in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees, a company representative told a parliamentary hearing on Friday. MORE..
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the National Institute for International Education of Korea in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka will host its first ever “2024 Study in Korea Education Fair” paving way for Sri Lankan students to explore opportunities for higher studies in Korea. MORE..
OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector’s first trade group, they said on Wednesday. MORE..
China’s lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon’s unexplored far side. MORE..
Dr MCR HRD Institute rolled out a “Two-week Training Program on Media Management for Journalists and Media Professionals from Sri Lanka” on June 24th, 2024. MORE..