Fri 22 March 2024: Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup, has broadcast a patient who appears to be playing online chess with just his mind. Neuralink announced Noland Arbaugh, 29, as the first patient in a video on the social networking platform X on Wednesday. Arbaugh is the 29-year-old patient who was implanted with the company’s […]
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Thu 21 March 2024: Russia has said it is aware of US intelligence efforts to use commercial satellite operators such as SpaceX and has cautioned that such moves made their satellites legitimate targets. The Reuters news agency reported this month that SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract […]
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Wed 20 March 2024: Bitcoin fell below the $62,000 level early Wednesday to erase all its gains during the month of March. The price of Bitcoin was trading around $62,900 at 0145GMT for a daily loss of 7%, according to data from CoinMarketCap, a digital asset price-tracking website. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency briefly dove to […]
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Wed 20 March 2024: Nvidia unveiled its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) graphics platform and software for running AI models at its developer conference Monday in San Jose, California. The US chipmaker’s new AI computing platform is named Blackwell, the successor to Hopper, and the platform’s first chip is called the GB200, which will ship […]
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Mon 18 March 2024: Tech giant Apple is in negotiations with Google to introduce the Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) engine to iPhones, a Bloomberg report said on Monday. According to the report, the iPhone maker recently also had discussions with OpenAI, the developer of the immensely popular ChatGPT, for a possible licensing of their AI […]
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Mon 18 March 2024: SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program said, demonstrating deepening ties between billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company and national security agencies. The network is being built by SpaceX’s Starshield business unit under […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the X platform is launching a streaming service that would allow users to watch lengthy videos on their smart TV screens, posing a fresh threat to Google-owned YouTube. The company is apparently launching a TV app for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs, and Musk said […]
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Sat 16 March 2024: US prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether Facebook-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the illegal sale of drugs, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Citing documents and people familiar with the matter, the article published on Saturday reported that prosecutors sent subpoenas last year and have been asking […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: South Africa’s financial conduct regulator has approved 59 operating licences for crypto currency businesses. In 2022, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) declared crypto assets to be financial products and said they needed to be regulated to protect financial customers from risks and prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. Regulating the […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: A Russian court has fined Google 4 million rubles ($43,680) for failing to block access to certain content banned in Russia. The court found Google guilty of failing to comply with the law by not restricting access to some prohibited content on YouTube. “Google LLC. was found guilty of committing an […]
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