Thu 08 February 2024: While conscious use of technology makes our lives easier, unconscious use can lead to addiction. With the numerous innovations that technology brings, everything is at our fingertips with just a single touch. For individuals with gambling addiction, online gambling behavior is also just a click away on online platforms. In the context of the […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: A year after being cleared for the test, billionaire Elon Musk’s Neuralink has implanted its wireless brain chip in a human for the first time. Musk announced that the patient received the implant on Sunday and “is recovering well”. The device is meant to have several applications, from restoring motor functionality […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: The UK has announced plans to invest more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) in artificial intelligence (AI) research and training. In line with plans unveiled on Tuesday, the government would establish nine new AI research hubs around the United Kingdom, fund studies looking into the ethical application of AI in […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: In 2004, as broadband was replacing dial-up internet and mobile phones with colour screens were gaining popularity, on February 4, a social network, named “TheFacebook”, was launched by 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates at Harvard University. Facebook was named after the physical student directory distributed at universities at the […]
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Sun 04 February 2024: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook’s parent firm, Meta Platforms, jumped to fourth place on the world’s billionaires list Friday, as Meta shares soared on strong financial results, according to a tally. The Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List said Zuckerberg’s net worth jumped $27.6 billion, or 19.88% to $167 billion. […]
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Sun 04 February 2024: Geely Holding Group (0175.HK), a Chinese automaker, announced on Saturday that it has launched 11 low-Earth orbit satellites, marking its second dispatch, as part of its efforts to increase the precision of its navigation for autonomous vehicles. According to Reuters, the satellites were launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: If you have grown up with social media, chances are you have taken more photos in the last couple of decades than you will ever remember. When mobile phones suddenly became cameras too, social media turned into a community photo album, with memories kept online forever and ever. Or so we […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: Dozens of activists, journalists and lawyers in Jordan have had their mobile phone devices hacked using the infamous Israeli spyware, Pegasus, in what appears to be the latest targeting of human and political rights advocates in the country. According to an investigation by Access Now and Citizen Lab, unidentified assailants or […]
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Fri 02 February 2024: Recently, a new set of photos taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed remarkably clear views of spiral galaxies in near- and mid-infrared light. New galactic architecture and materials are revealed by contrasting these new photographs in visible and ultraviolet light with earlier views captured by NASA’s other space telescope, […]
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Thu 01 February 2024: Social media platform X has blocked searches for one of the world’s most popular personalties, Taylor Swift, after explicit artificial intelligence images of the singer-songwriter went viral. The deepfakes flooded several social media sites from Reddit to Facebook. This has renewed calls to strengthen legislation around AI, particularly when it is […]
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