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Twitter launched its new logo on Monday, replacing the blue bird with a white X on a black background as the company moves toward rebranding as X. The social media network’s website showed the company’s new logo, but its URL was still showing as twitter.com and the blue “Tweet” button was visible. Some users saw a blue version of the …

PHOENIX: What happens to the body when a human gets heatstroke? How can we protect ourselves in a warming planet? To answer these burning questions, Arizona researchers have deployed a robot that can breathe, shiver and sweat. The southwestern state’s capital Phoenix is currently enduring its longest heatwave in history: on Friday, the mercury exceeded 110 degrees Fahren­heit (43 degrees …

The White House said Friday that OpenAI and others in the artificial intelligence race have committed to making their technology safer with features such as watermarks on fabricated images. “These commitments, which the companies have chosen to undertake immediately, underscore three principles that must be fundamental to the future of AI — safety, security, and trust — and mark a …

AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer, the Biden administration said. The companies – which also include Anthropic, Inflection, Amazon.com and OpenAI partner Microsoft – pledged to thoroughly test systems before releasing them and share information about …

PARIS: When a Nasa spacecraft successfully knocked an asteroid off course last year it sent dozens of boulders skittering into space, images from the Hubble telescope showed on Thursday. Nasa’s fridge-sized DART probe smashed into the pyramid-sized, rugby ball-shaped asteroid Dimorphos roughly 11 million kilometres from Earth in September last year. The spacecraft knocked the asteroid significantly off course in …

Meta Platforms said it had restored WhatsApp connectivity issues after thousands of users globally reported problems accessing the messaging app on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. “We’re back, happy chatting!” the Whatsapp Twitter account posted in a tweet. The company had earlier said it was experiencing disruptions “receiving incoming messages and message delivery on Whatsapp,” according to Meta’s status …

Twitter Inc on Tuesday was hit with the second lawsuit this month to claim that it owes at least $500 million in severance pay to ex-workers, the latest in a series of cases arising from Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social media company. The proposed class action filed in Delaware federal court by former Twitter senior engineer Chris Woodfield also …

The meta-owned, WhatsApp has introduced a new feature that makes it easier for users to message people who are not saved in their contact list. Previously, WhatsApp users had to jump through hoops to message someone whose number was not saved, such as using a third-party app. This was especially inconvenient for quick or one-time conversations. The next time you …

WASHINGTON: Scientists for the past 15 years have been looking for evidence of a type of star only hypothesized but never observed — one powered not by the fusion of atoms like the sun and other ordinary stars but by mysterious stuff called dark matter. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope’s ability to peer back to the dawn of …

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has approved the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Rules 2023 to counter the ever-growing cyberthreats and hacking attempts at various public sector entities. The rules stated that a CERT council will be established through the Ministry of IT and Telecom, which will work as a forum for consultative as well as advising all tiers of computer …