EU fines Meta $840m for ‘abusive’ practices on Facebook platform
Apple accused of trapping, ripping off 40m iCloud customers
Smart Election Management App introduced by the Election Commission (EC) provides all kinds of information related to polls. This app enables citizens to access comprehensive election information, including details about all seats in every division of the country. Election
SpaceX has been accused of unlawfully firing eight workers who were critical of its multi-billionaire chief executive Elon Musk. A complaint by a US labour agency says the employees sent an open letter to the firm's executives in 2022, detailing workplace concerns. The letter
The US claimed that a Chinese spycraft, which traversed above the US earlier this year, was in communication with China through the services of a US-based internet provider. Unnamed US intelligence officials alleged that, based on investigations, a US internet company provided services
Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS. Both versions of the app are now available to download from the Apple App Store. The app gives you access to Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat) and works
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. The Times is the first major American media
Apple will pause sales of its Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 smartwatches in the US this month as the result of an ongoing legal battle with health tech company Masimo. The US International Trade Commission, the federal agency that handles trade-related mandates, previously
Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), confirmed the dates for Ariane 6's long-awaited debut flight following the success of a key test on 23 November. Speaking to RFI, Aschbacher called the test at Europe's spaceport in French Guiana
SpaceX said it was targeting, December 28 for the launch of the United States military's X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission to orbit. "Now targeting no earlier than Thursday, December 28 for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52 to orbit from Florida," SpaceX said in
Pope Francis has called for world leaders to adopt a global treaty on the use of artificial intelligence to ensure it is used ethically. The 86-year-old pontiff appealed in a six-page message published ahead of the Catholic Church's World Day of Peace on January 1, which this year
The Turkish Competition Authority has decided to investigate Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, based on allegations of violating the Law on Protection of Competition. According to a statement released by the Competition Board's website, a
A jury in the United States has found that Google unlawfully made its Play Store dominant over rival app stores. Epic Games, which owns popular video game Fortnite, sued Google in 2020, accusing it of a monopoly over the distribution of apps and in-app billing. Hundreds of millions
Social media app TikTok has struck a joint venture deal with Indonesian tech giant GoTo to restart its online shopping business in the country. The firm, owned by China's Bytedance, plans to invest over $1.5bn (£1.2bn) in the long-term in Indonesia's biggest e-commerce
The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artificial intelligence have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-hour negotiation between the European Parliament and EU member states. The agreement was described as “historic” by Thierry Breton, the
Google is facing scrutiny over its demonstration video for its newly launched artificial intelligence model, Gemini. On Wednesday, just weeks before the year’s end, Google launched what it considers its largest and most capable AI model Gemini and presented a demonstrative video
It’s the beginning of a new era of AI at Google, says CEO Sundar Pichai: the Gemini era. Gemini is Google’s latest large language model, which Pichai first teased at the I/O developer conference in June and is now launching to the public. To hear Pichai and Google
A group representing 83 Spanish media outlets on Monday said it has filed a 550 million euro ($598 million) lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta Platforms, citing unfair competition in the advertising market. The lawsuit was filed by the AMI newspaper publishing association in a
The defence chiefs of the United States, Australia and Britain met in California, touting high-tech cooperation on deep space radar, artificial intelligence and quantum computing systems to bolster their armed forces in the face of growing global threats, including from China. The
South Korea confirmed Saturday its first military spy satellite had reached orbit after a successful SpaceX rocket launch and that communication was established with ground control. Seoul's reconnaissance satellite, carried by one of Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets,
Meta filed a lawsuit late Wednesday arguing that US regulators planning to change the terms of a 2020 privacy settlement are overstepping their authority and should be stopped. The Silicon Valley tech giant, known as Facebook when the $5 billion settlement was made, said that aspects
More than 50 years after the last Apollo mission, the United States will try once again to land a craft on the Moon on January 25, said the head of what could be the first private company to successfully touch down on the lunar surface. The lander, named Peregrine, will have no one on