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SpaceX’s uncrewed spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was presumed to have failed in space minutes after lifting off on Saturday in its second test after its first attempt ended in an explosion. The two-stage rocketship blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company’s Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas, soaring roughly 55 miles …

SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX and social platform X, came under fire from all sides this week after endorsing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and then — in an ostensible attempt at damage control — terming phrases associated with the Palestinian cause “euphemisms that imply genocide”. On Wednesday, the world’s richest man sparked outrage by endorsing …

The board of the company behind ChatGPT on Friday fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman —to many, the human face of generative AI— sending shock waves across the tech industry. OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO, the company said, adding that it will conduct a formal search for a permanent CEO. “Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process …

Meta Platforms (META.O) on Thursday launched two new AI-based features for video editing that could be used for posting to Instagram or Facebook. The first is called Emu Video and it generates four-second long videos with a prompt of a caption, photo or an image, paired with a description. The other is known as Emu Edit that allows users to more easily …

Apple announced the adoption of the Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging system, which will launch via software update in 2024 and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users. Following years, the pressure from Google, Apple became a mature platform as it was before after it decided to developing RCS systems to compete with …

Apple announced that the iPhone 14 owners will have another year to use its Emergency SOS via Satellite feature for free. The Emergency SOS via Satellite feature was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022, and while launched on November 15. After the launch of the feature, Apple made an offer of two years of free Emergency SOS only …

For those who want to build or upgrade a PC, this is the time to buy different components as the Black Friday sales bring huge discounts to acquire various components at significantly discounted prices, especially on new Nvidia graphics cards. Rumors suggested that Nvidia is upgrading its RTX 40-series, releasing an RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and an …

PARIS: Last year the brightest flash of light ever seen in the night sky disturbed Earth’s upper atmosphere in a way that has never before detected before, researchers said on Tuesday. A massive burst of gamma rays from an enormous cosmic explosion aro­und two billion light years away arrived at Earth on Oct 9, 2022, lighting up telescopes around the …

Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social has lost $73 million since its launch in early 2022, a securities filing by Digital World Acquisition Corp, the SPAC that plans to merge with the company, showed on Monday. Trump had announced the launch of his social media app in Oct 2021, saying it would “stand up to Big Tech” companies …

Elon Musk’s X has not paid a fine imposed for failing to outline its plans to stamp out content depicting child sexual abuse on the platform, Australia’s internet safety watchdog told AFP on Tuesday. Last month, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant slapped an Aus$610,500 (US$388,000) fine on the company formerly known as Twitter for failing to respond to questions she …