Sun 26 January 2025: Australian and Chinese researchers have made a breakthrough in unraveling the mystery of how the surface of Mars has evolved over billions of years. Their recently published study focuses on seismic activity on Mars, with findings suggesting that “marsquakes” — tremors occurring on the planet — may offer crucial insights into […]
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Sat 25 January 2025: Satellite-based communication provider Starlink will start beta testing for satellite-to-cellphone internet connections, it said Friday. As announced by the firm’s billionaire owner Elon Musk, also a large political player in US and world politics, the company will start the test phase in three days. Starting in 2018, Starlink sent 6,912 satellites […]
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Sat 25 January 2025: The price of Bitcoin soared by 2.5% on Friday after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on cryptocurrency markets. The current price of Bitcoin is at around $104,736 as of 0645GMT, and its market cap increased to $2.07 trillion. Bitcoin’s transaction volume in the last 24-hour period was around […]
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Sat 25 January 2025: Meta has rejected accusations that Facebook and Instagram users were automatically directed to follow US President Donald Trump’s official accounts. After Trump’s inauguration on Monday, some users complained that they had automatically been made to follow the new president, as well as Vice President JD Vance and first lady Melania Trump. […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Leaked internal documents reveal that Microsoft has come out as a major provider of cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) to the Israeli military, with support increasing dramatically since the conflict in Gaza began on Oct. 7, 2023. According to documents obtained by Drop Site News, Israel has emerged as one […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: CNN, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery, is set to lay off hundreds of employees on Thursday as part of a strategic shift toward a global digital audience, according to people familiar with the matter, CNBC reported. The layoffs coincide with the news channel’s plans to reorganize its traditional television lineup […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: You’ll be hearing a great deal about artificial intelligence (AI) and education in 2025. The UK government unveiled its “AI opportunities action plan” in mid-January. As part of the plan it has awarded funding of £1 million (about US$1.2 million) to 16 educational technology companies to “build teacher AI tools for feedback and […]
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Thu 23 January 2025: Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have successfully conducted groundbreaking experiments to produce oxygen and components for rocket fuel, according to a report. The crew of the Shenzhou-19 mission carried out the world’s first in-orbit artificial photosynthesis experiments, creating oxygen and ethylene, the South China Morning Post reported Monday. The […]
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Sun 19 January 2025: The British government has planned to develop a new strategy to advance the nation’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector, which will raise living standards and economic growth by generating thousands of new jobs. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced the AI Opportunities Action Plan, which would help contribute to a “decade of […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: The EU on Friday demanded X hand over more details about its algorithms and any future changes as part of its wide-ranging probe into the platform, as Elon Musk’s outbursts on European politics ramp up pressure for the bloc to act. Musk, who will be a part of Donald Trump’s incoming […]
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