WHAT IS THE GOLDEN DOME DEFENCE SYSTEM TRUMP ANNOUNCED?

Fri 23 May 2025: The $175bn ambitious space proposal aims to counter aerial threats but Washington’s adversary China says it would prompt an arms race. United States President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has selected a $175bn design for the multilayered Golden Dome missile defence programme aimed at countering aerial threats “even if they are […]

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BITCOIN EXCEEDS $110,000 THRESHOLD FOR 1ST TIME AMID REGULATORY OPTIMISM

Fri 23 May 2025: The price of Bitcoin on Thursday surpassed the $110,000 threshold for the first time in history after the recent advancement of a key stablecoin bill in the US Senate. The value of the global cryptocurrency market, including Bitcoin, reached $2.2 trillion Thursday, according to data from Coinmarketcap. The price of Bitcoin, […]

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1 IN 4 JOBS GLOBALLY THREATENED BY GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Wed 21 May 2025: A report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland’s National Research Institute (NASK) revealed Tuesday that 25% of jobs worldwide are potentially exposed to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), with clerical and highly digital occupations facing the highest vulnerability. The report, “Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure,” presented what […]

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BRAIN STUDY CHALLENGES LONG-HELD BELIEFS ABOUT WHERE CONSCIOUSNESS RESIDES

Tue 20 May 2025: WASHINGTON: The core of human existence is consciousness, which includes the senses of sight, hearing, dreaming, imagining, feeling pain or pleasure, fear, love, and more. But exactly where in the brain is this located? Scientists and medical professionals have long been perplexed by that question. A recent study is providing new […]

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TELEGRAM FOUNDER SAYS FRANCE ASKED HIM TO BAN CONSERVATIVE ROMANIAN VOICES

Mon 19 May 2025: The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, said he refused a request by the head of France’s intelligence service to ban Romanian conservative voices ahead of the country’s elections. Romania’s centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, won the presidential election on Sunday in a shock upset over a hard-right, nationalist rival who had pledged to […]

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HUMANOID ROBOT MARKET PROJECTED TO NEARLY QUINTUPLE IN DECADE

Mon 19 May 2025: The humanoid robot market is expected to grow nearly fivefold over the next decade amid rising global competition and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, a sector representative told Anadolu. Meric Atalay, chairman of the Turkish Purchasing Professionals’ and Managers’ Association (TUSAYER), said that Türkiye must prepare for a shift […]

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MICROSOFT CONFIRMS AI, CLOUD SERVICES TO ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTRY AMID GAZA WAR SCRUTINY

Sun 18 May 2025: Microsoft has confirmed it provides cloud and artificial intelligence services to Israel’s Defense Ministry, while denying its tools were used to harm civilians in Gaza, as scrutiny intensifies over the role of US tech firms in the ongoing war, Anadolu reports. In a statement published Thursday, the company acknowledged public and internal […]

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APPLE MIGHT SOON LET USERS RUN THEIR DEVICES THROUGH JUST THEIR MIND

Sun 18 May 2025: Apple is partnering with Synchron, a brain-computer interface company, to potentially allow iPhone users to control their devices using their thoughts. Synchron is developing a brain implant with electrodes that can interpret brain signals. According to a statement, using the technology provided by Synchron, Apple would translate the signals into actions. […]

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