Sun 04 January 2026: China carried out a record 92 space launches in 2025, the highest annual total in its history, state-run media reported on Saturday. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) said the year saw multiple breakthroughs and several firsts across manned spaceflight, deep-space exploration and commercial space activities, according to Global Times. As part of its […]
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Sat 03 January 2026: European banks are preparing for large-scale job cuts as artificial intelligence becomes a core part of their operations. According to a new analysis by Morgan Stanley, reported by the Financial Times, more than 200,000 banking jobs in Europe could be lost by 2030. This is around 10 per cent of the […]
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Sat 03 January 2026: Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI, has said it is racing to tighten safeguards after users reported that the chatbot generated sexualised images of women and children. Grok said: “We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them.” It added that “CSAM is illegal and prohibited,” […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: Legislation signed by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov establishes a licensing scheme overseen by country’s central bank. Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most isolated nations, has officially legalised mining and exchanging cryptocurrency in a major shift for the country’s tightly controlled, gas-dependent economy. President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed the legislation on Thursday, regulating virtual […]
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Thu 01 January 2026: France plans to ban children under 15 from social media sites and to prohibit mobile phones in high schools from September 2026, local media reported on Wednesday, moves that underscore rising public angst over the impact of online harms on minors. President Emmanuel Macron has often pointed to social media as one of the […]
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Wed 31 December 2025: Engineers have developed the world’s smallest robot, capable of sensing, thinking, and making decisions—bordering on invisibility. This microscopic technology could herald a future where tiny health robots navigate through our blood vessels, turning science fiction into reality. Pennsylvania and Michigan University engineers created a programmable robot smaller than a grain of sand, even small […]
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Tue 30 December 2025: China will on January 1 launch an “action plan” for boosting management and operations of its digital currency, a deputy governor of the country’s central bank said Monday. “The future digital yuan will be a modern digital payment and circulation means issued and circulated within the financial system,” People’s Bank of China […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: Which terms best represent 2025? Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English select a “word of the year.” Sometimes these terms are thematically related, particularly in the wake of world-altering events. “Pandemic,” “lockdown” and “coronavirus,” for example, were among the words […]
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Fri 26 December 2025: German Minister for Digital Affairs Karsten Wildberger has expressed openness to introducing a ban on social media use for children, similar to recent measures adopted in Australia, the German news agency dpa reported on Friday. Wildberger told dpa that restricting children’s access to social media platforms was “more than justified,” pointing […]
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Fri 26 December 2025: With Christmas just around the corner, it can be a very busy and stressful time of year. Between festive gatherings, ticking off what’s left on your yearly to-do list and shopping online for that perfect gift, it can be easy to let your guard down against fraudsters. Australians lost more than A$2 […]
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