Technology

DUGWAY: A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end on Sunday when a Nasa capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of the formation of our solar system and how Earth became …

LOS ANGELES: A Nasa space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled towards Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday. Weather forecasts were favourable and the robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx was on course to release the …

HANGZHOU: From autonomous bug zappers to android pianists and driverless ice-cream trucks, machines rule the world — at least at China’s Asian Games. The Games after a one-year delay because of Covid with about 12,000 athletes and thousands of journalists, technical officials and spectators descending on Hangzhou. The city is the unofficial home of China’s tech industry and robots and …

The Ministry of Information Technology (IT) has started preparations for the auction of 5G technology in Pakistan. According to sources, the IT ministry has started preparations for the launch of 5G services and issued instructions to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and related departments. The government is expected to raise millions of dollars from the 5G auction, with the spectrum auction …

Social media platform X’s head of policy for India and South Asia, Samiran Gupta, has resigned, two sources said, a top departure that comes ahead of India elections and as the company fights a court battle with New Delhi over content removal. Gupta was the most senior India employee for X, formerly known as Twitter, and responsible for “key content-related …

LONDON: Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard “opens the door” to the biggest ever gaming deal being cleared, Britain’s antitrust regulator said on Friday. Microsoft announced the deal early last year, but it was blocked in April by Britain’s competition regulator, which was concerned the US tech giant would gain too much control of the nascent cloud gaming …

YouTube – a video-sharing platform – recently announced to release of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered feature for short-form content creators. The AI-powered technology called – Dream Screen – will allow users to use AI tools to create AI-generated videos or image backgrounds for short-form videos – called shorts – just by giving prompts. YouTube’s vice president for community products …

While updating from an older iPhone to the latest version, there are certain steps to be taken to ensure that all the data from the old phone moves over to the latest one. Android users find it difficult to switch to iOS, as they have to face the hassle of transferring the data, but after 2018, Apple released an application …

NEW YORK: A trade group for US authors has sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on behalf of prominent writers including John Grisham, Jonathan Fra­nzen, George Saunders, Jodi Picault and Game of Thrones novelist George R.R. Martin, accusing the company of unlawfully training its popular artificial-intelligence based chatbot ChatGPT on their work.

Bard – Google’s conversational, AI chat service – is now providing its users a one-stop shop, as the users can get their travel and planning needs with real-time information from various Google applications including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Hotels, and Flights. If the user is planning their next vacation or just trying to find out what to do over the weekend, …