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A four-man crew including Turkiye’s first astronaut arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday for a two-week stay in the latest such mission arranged entirely at commercial expense by Texas-based startup company Axiom Space. The rendezvous came about 37 hours after the Axiom quartet’s Thursday evening liftoff in a rocketship from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape …

NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end. Ingenuity, a drone about 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) tall, arrived on Mars in 2021 aboard the rover Perseverance and became the first motorized craft to fly autonomously on another …

Japan on Saturday became only the fifth nation to achieve a soft lunar landing, but its “Moon Sniper” spacecraft was running out of power due to a solar battery problem. After a nail-biting 20-minute descent, space agency JAXA said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had touched down and communication had been established. But without the solar cells functioning, …

PARIS: It was impossible to see through the snow and fog on the Antarctic seas but expedition leader Ian Strachan knew his ship was approaching a true behemoth: the world’s biggest iceberg lay somewhere ahead. “Then the clouds lifted, and we could see this expansive — almost abstract — white line that extended each way across the horizon,” he told …

Over 75 million people use Alexa digital assistance but Amazon considered this company a total failure due to its lack of profitability and draining the company resources. Amazon has come up with a plan to save it with AI and charge users for the new service, introducing “Alexa Plus” which is set to launch on June 30. Unfortunately, Amazon is …

TOKYO: The winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary award has acknowledged that about “five percent” of her futuristic novel was penned by ChatGPT, saying generative AI had helped unlock her potential. Since the 2022 launch of ChatGPT, an easy-to-use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay upon request within seconds, there have been growing worries about the impact on a …

Google on Tuesday confirmed it is eliminating “a few hundred” positions from its global ad team, amid a push to use artificial intelligence for efficiency and creativity. The job cuts to its “large customer” sales team are intended to result in better support for small and medium size businesses advertising on Google’s platform, according to the internet giant. Expansion of …

Remember those gadgets in sci-fi movies? Some of them were the highlights in one of the most prestigious tech-events in the world. And it was all happening in Las Vegas. Ai enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and business representatives came together under one roof to display their creations and share the unconditional love of Ai and the evolving tech. Something Crazy was Happening in …

Barely a month after Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) employed artificial intelligence (AI) to generate an audio speech of incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan for an online rally, social media platforms have become awash with AI-produced voiceovers of political figures. From AI-created songs to promotional images, the rise of free AI voice-cloning and image-editing tools has turned electioneering into a steady …