Post By : 2025-05-26

The Overseas Highway: The US' 'floating' highway

As many Americans hit the road this weekend to kick off the unofficial start of summer in the US, we're revisiting one of our favourite road trip stories about an engineering marvel stretching 113 miles into the ocean that forever changed Florida. Seagulls cried overhead as I glided across miles of glistening waters somewhere between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The sky melted into the teal sea, which turned turquoise as it shallowed into channels between the coral and limeston

Post By : 2025-05-25

From cat urine to gunpowder: Exploring the peculiar smells of outer space

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from Earth's nearest neighbours to planets hundreds of light years away – to learn about the make-up of the Universe. Jupiter, says Mari   When she brought her samples back in from the airlock, there was a rush of smell, the metallic aroma of space. "That was my favourite experiment – because it smelled." Other astronauts have described a smell akin to charred meat, gunpowder, or burnt electrical wiring

Post By : 2025-05-25

China’s Xiaomi unveils electric SUV, new chip in bid to rival Tesla, Apple

Chinese consumer electronics giant Xiaomi has launched a new electric SUV and debuted a self-designed smartphone chip, in a push to expand beyond its roots in budget devices. The company’s CEO and founder Lei Jun introduced the YU7, Xiaomi’s first SUV, and the Xring O1, a 3-nanometer mobile chip meant to rival those powering Apple and Qualcomm’s top-tier smartphones, at a livestreamed event in Beijing on Thursday. The launch event, which also introduced other products like a ta

Post By : 2025-05-25

Former Apple design chief Jony Ive is joining OpenAI

Jony Ive, the veteran former Apple design chief credited with shaping the company’s product design, is joining ChatGPT maker OpenAI. OpenAI will merge with Ive’s tech company, io, according to a joint announcement from Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The deal is said to be valued at about $6.5 billion, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and other media outlets. OpenAI previously held a 23% stake in io, according to The New York T

Post By : 2025-05-25

The First lady says AI is the future of publishing. It’s already happening

  First lady Melania Trump released an audiobook version in her voice of her memoir on Thursday — but she won’t actually be the one narrating it. “I am honored to bring you Melania – The AI Audiobook – narrated entirely using artificial intelligence in my own voice,” she wrote in a post on X. “Let the future of publishing begin.” Trump is far from the first person to use AI this way. But her choice to put the technology and its use in med

Post By : 2025-05-24

Remembering the Indian scientist who challenged the Big Bang theory

In his 1983 science fiction story, an Indian astrophysicist predicted what schools would look like in 2050. Jayant Narlikar envisioned a scene where an alien, living among humans, would sit in front of a screen and attend online classes. The aliens are yet to manifest, but online classes became a reality for students far sooner, in 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Narlikar also famously proposed an alternative to the Big Bang Theory - the popular idea that the universe was created in a sing

Post By : 2025-05-24

Indian IT giant investigates link to M&S cyber-attack

An Indian IT company is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether it was the gateway for the cyber-attack on Marks & Spencer, BBC News understands. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has provided services to M&S for more than a decade. Earlier this week, M&S said the hackers who had brought huge disruption to the retailer had managed to gain access to their systems via a "third party" - a company working alongside it - rather than accessing those systems direct

Post By : 2025-05-24

Mission to boost cyber skills as number of jobs rise

Students are being matched up with cyber experts to boost skills in the industry amid more jobs. The University of Gloucestershire is running a programme to build a "talent pipeline", aimed at ensuring the county has the skilled workforce it needs to meet future job demands. The scheme pairs students from schools and colleges with local cyber businesses, which offers them apprenticeship opportunities. Clare Marchant, the university's vice-chancellor, said while there is a lot of cy

Post By : 2025-05-23

Can Donald Trump build the 'Golden Dome' over the US?

Warheads raining down from beyond the Earth's atmosphere. Faster-than-sound cruise missiles striking US infrastructure. Sky-high nuclear blasts. These are just some of the nightmarish scenarios that experts warn could come true if the US's dated and limited defence systems were overwhelmed in a future high-tech attack. Even a single, relatively small nuclear detonation hundreds of miles above the heads of Americans would create an electromagnetic pulse - or EMP - that would have apocalyp

Post By : 2025-05-21

AI chatbot to be embedded in Google search

Google is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) mode that more firmly embeds chatbot capabilities into its search engine, aiming to give users the experience of having a conversation with an expert. The "AI Mode" was made available in the US on Tuesday, appearing as an option in Google's search bar. The change, unveiled at the company's annual developers conference in Mountain View, California, is part of the tech giant's push to remain competitive against ChatGPT

Post By : 2025-05-20

Snapchat’s new AI chatbot is already raising alarms among teens and parents

Less than a few hours after Snapchat rolled out its My AI chatbot to all users last week, Lyndsi Lee, a mother from East Prairie, Missouri, told her 13-year-old daughter to stay away from the feature. “It’s a temporary solution until I know more about it and can set some healthy boundaries and guidelines,” said Lee, who works at a software company. She worries about how My AI presents itself to young users like her daughter on Snapchat. The feature is powered by

Post By : 2025-05-20

Victims of explicit deepfakes will now be able to take legal action against people who create them

In recent years, people ranging from Taylor Swift and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to high school girls around the country have been victims of non-consensual, explicit deepfakes — images where a person’s face is superimposed on a nude body using artificial intelligence. Now, after months of outcry, there is finally a federal law criminalizing the sharing of those images. President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act in a ceremony at the White House on Monday. In

Post By : 2025-05-20

Google Search, Facebook and the iPhone may not last forever. And Silicon Valley is finally admitting it

People aren’t friending each other as much on Facebook these days. The iPhone might not feel necessary in a decade. And Google searches on one of the world’s most popular smartphones are declining. Those were some of the unusually frank admissions from two separate antitrust trials against Meta and Google. It was a rare acknowledgement from tech leaders that the once-cutting edge products their companies were founded on could someday lose their relevance. Silicon Valley prides itself

Post By : 2025-05-20

You can now book a chef or personal trainer while traveling with Airbnb

Nearly a decade ago, Airbnb envisioned being more than just an app to book a home for a vacation. Its latest redesign could be a major push toward becoming the kind of “end-to-end travel app,” that CEO Brian Chesky has said he wants to create. The online vacation home-rental marketplace has made efforts toward this goal in the past. It launched “Airbnb Experiences,” tours, classes and other activities that can be booked on its app; a travel magazi

Post By : 2025-05-19T18:43:53

Apple boosts India's factory hopes - but a US-China deal could derail plans

ust as India showed flickers of progress toward its long-held dream of becoming the world's factory, Washington and Beijing announced a trade "reset" that could derail Delhi's ambitions to replace China as the global manufacturing hub. Last week, Trump's tariffs on China dropped overnight - from 145% to 30%, vs 27% for India - as the two sides thrashed out an agreement in Switzerland. As a result, there's a chance manufacturing investment that was moving from China to I

Post By : 2024-06-25T14:50

OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode

In May, when OpenAI first demoed an eerily realistic, nearly real-time “advanced voice mode” for its AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT, the company said that the feature would roll out to paying ChatGPT users within a few weeks. Months later, OpenAI says that it needs more time. In a post on OpenAI’s official Discord server, OpenAI says that it had planned to start rolling out advanced Voice Mode in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but that lingering

Post By : 2024-06-25T13:44

ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all

You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first announced ahead of Apple’s WWDC 2024 in June, where the companies jointly announced integrations between OpenAI’s chatbot and Apple’s operating systems for iPhone, iPad and Mac. On the latter platform, users can quickly call up ChatGPT by using the keyboard combination of Option + Space after installing

Post By : 2024-06-25T07:02

Apple launches iPhone Mirroring on Mac in latest iOS and Mac betas

iPhone Mirroring, one of the more notable features arriving in Apple’s upcoming operating systems, is now available to developers testing the beta versions of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. The latest beta releases include support for mirroring your iPhone directly on the Mac, so you can use your phone on your computer, including launching and running iPhone apps, and even moving files between the Mac and iPhone. First announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) earlier in

Post By : 2024-06-21T10:45

US bans sale of Kaspersky software citing security risk from Russia

The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it is banning the sale of Kaspersky antivirus software in the country, and is asking Americans who use the software to switch to a different provider. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said it imposed the “first of its kind” ban, arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national security and users’ privacy because the company is based in Russia.  “Russia has shown it has the capacity, and even