Science & Tech
24 Nov
Commuters walk past the NYPD’s Knightscope K5 Autonomous Security Robot at the Times Square subway station, New York, NY, November 22, 2023. With a 360-camera placed on its head, the 420-pound robot is set up as a crime deterrent, and patrols with a 2 NYPD-officer escort from midnight to 6am.
23 Nov
Sam Altman is again OpenAI's CEO following a series of events that saw him fired and rehired in a few days.
23 Nov
Japan and South Korea said that North Korea has launched a suspected military spy satellite using banned ballistic missile technology.
20 Nov
The tech sector in Africa is expected to have another year of growth in 2023, despite a turndown in venture capital investment worldwide. There are big opportunities in connectivity – mobile internet, fibre, satellite, subsea cables – thanks in part to Africa’s growing population.
19 Nov
Tech giant IBM has pulled its ads from X after they were run alongside pro-Nazi posts. The news comes after Elon Musk endorsed an anti-Semitic post on the platform. Meanwhile, the largest semiconductor equipment maker in the US, Applied Materials, is under criminal investigation for potentially evading export restrictions on China's top chipmaker.
19 Nov
More than 140,000 Earth orbits and a quarter century on, the ISS is still a place of peaceful collaboration for science. Here's what you need to know.
14 Nov
Nepali lawmakers said internet providers had already begun blocking access to TikTok. It follows a similar move by India in 2020 to ban the Chinese social media app.
12 Nov
TikTok is facing criticism after a damning Amnesty International report accused it of pushing children and young people towards harmful mental health-related content. Our Science and Tech editor Julia Sieger tells us more.
10 Nov
Elon Musk's generative AI venture, xAI, has launched Grok, its rival to ChatGPT. The billionaire is hoping to capitalise on the artificial intelligence revolution. While the private sector races to profit from AI innovation, governments are scrambling to keep up, vowing to protect humanity from potential catastrophe. So what might AI regulation look like? We discuss the issue with French tech entrepreneur Denis Jacquet, founder and CEO of Top Cream.
6 Nov
Global leaders and AI developers have been meeting in the UK at the world's first global summit on AI safety to assess the risks and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence, and also to discuss regulation of the emerging technology.
5 Nov
Genetic modification has never been easier. The CRISPR genetic scissors enable targeted intervention that transforms animals and plants according to our needs. It also works in humans. The hope is that many diseases can now be eradicated.
4 Nov
After analyzing billions of words, the dictionary publisher has chosen the abbreviation of artificial intelligence as the word of the year.