The United States Department of the Treasury has fleshed out a proposed rule that would restrict and monitor US investments in China for artificial intelligence, computer chips and quantum computing. The fleshed-out draft rule, issued on Friday, stems from President Joe Biden’s

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance over potential violations of children's privacy to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The FTC says its own investigation "uncovered reason to believe" that

Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company after its share price climbed to an all-time high on Tuesday. The stock ended the trading day at nearly $136, up 3.5%, making it more valuable than Microsoft. It overtook Apple earlier this month. American company Nvidia makes

In 2018, Tesla shareholders approved the biggest pay package in history for Elon Musk. Six years later, will they do it again? The electric car company will find out this week at its annual meeting, where it is seeking a show of support for the roughly $50bn deal. The package -

Apple is to boost its Siri voice assistant and operating systems with OpenAI's ChatGPT as it seeks to catch up in the AI race. The iPhone maker announced the Siri makeover along with a number of other new features at its annual developers show on Monday. It is part of a new

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped one of the most famous photographs taken in outer space, has died at the age of 90. Officials say a small plane he was flying crashed into the water north of Seattle, Washington. Anders' son Greg confirmed that his father was flying

Nvidia's market value has surged past $3tn (£2.3tn), lifting the chipmaker ahead of Apple to become the second most valuable publicly listed company in the world. The firm's share price rose more than 5% on Wednesday, to more than $1,224. It extended a breathtakingly

Australia has abandoned a legal battle to have graphic footage of a church stabbing in Sydney removed from Elon Musk's social media platform X. Declared a terror incident by police, the attack on bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in April was livestreamed online and led to riots outside the

TikTok says it is addressing a cyber-attack that targeted several brands and celebrities. The video-sharing app, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, told the BBC that a "very limited" number of accounts had been compromised. It added that it was working with users

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has updated its policies to formally allow adult content. Under the updated guidelines, the platform formerly known as Twitter will allow users to share sexualised content so long as it is consensual and clearly labelled. The revised policy,

A Chinese spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the Moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth, according to state media. The achievement on Tuesday is a world first and the latest leap for Beijing’s decades-old space

China says its uncrewed craft has successfully landed on the far side of the Moon - an unexplored place almost no-one tries to go. The Chang'e 6 touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin at 06:23 Beijing time on Sunday morning (22:23 GMT Saturday), the China National Space

Another former executive of FTX has been jailed over his part in the cryptocurrency giant's implosion in late 2022. Ryan Salame, who was the co-CEO of FTX's Bahamian subsidiary, was sentenced to 90 months in prison, US federal prosecutors said. Salame - who was a top

A tiny Nasa satellite was launched on May 25 from New Zealand with the mission of improving climate change prediction by measuring heat escaping from Earth’s poles for the first time. “This new information – and we’ve never had it before – will improve our

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has given the e-Wallet 'Pocket' of ABG Technologies Limited preliminary approval to run Cash In and Cash Out operations as Bangladesh's first PSP. ABG Technologies Limited, a concern of Bashundhara Group, organized a function in this regard at ABG

BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by a supplier on a list of firms banned over alleged links to Chinese forced labour, a US congressional report has said. At least 8,000 BMW Mini Cooper cars were imported into the US with components from banned Chinese

Microsoft plans to offer its cloud customers a platform of AMD artificial intelligence chips that will compete with components made by Nvidia, with details to be given at its Build developer conference this week. Microsoft offers cloud customers AMD alternative to Nvidia AI processors

The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X.com, owner Elon Musk said on Friday. The billionaire head of Tesla, SpaceX and other companies bought Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and announced the rebrand to X last July. Although the logo and

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior (MoI) has launched the digital identity service for pilgrims arriving in the Kingdom on a Haj visa for the year 1445 AH-2024. The digital identity service is part of the government’s commitment to promoting digital

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio has unveiled the first car from its new lower-priced brand Onvo, in a direct challenge to Tesla's best-selling car. With prices starting at 219,900 yuan ($30,465, £23,990), the L60 SUV is more than 10% cheaper than the world's most