Tue 28 January 2025: US President Donald Trump has said that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, while the app’s future in the country faces uncertainty. TikTok is facing down a US law that ordered the company to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or be banned in the United States. Asked late on […]
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Tue 28 January 2025: China’s newly unveiled AI chatbot, DeepSeek, has raised alarms among Western tech giants, offering a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Supported by the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek launched its DeepSeek-R1 large language model (LLM) on Jan. 20. Unlike ChatGPT’s subscription-based and closed-source platform, priced at $200 per […]
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Mon 27 January 2025: Meta will allow WhatsApp users to share status updates across Instagram and Facebook, as well as enable single sign-in, according to tech media reports late Tuesday (January 21). This update is part of Meta integrating WhatsApp into its Accounts Center, as WABetaINfo spotted. According to Meta, the feature link won’t be turned on automatically and hence it is up […]
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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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