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Seven months after a first attempt ended in a spectacular explosion, SpaceX's Starship spacecraft blasted off for a second test flight. The launch was presumed to have failed shortly after the ship reached space.

Social Links, a surveillance company that had thousands of accounts banned for mass-scraping Facebook and Instagram, is now using ChatGPT to make sense of data it grabs from social media.

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US firms, including Apple and Disney, are reportedly suspending ads on the Elon Musk-owned site.

OpenAI said it 'no longer had confidence' in his ability to lead the artificial intelligence firm.

The Deep Space Optical Communications tool on the Psyche probe achieved successful data transmission to and from Earth from an unprecedented distance.

Twenty years after ‘U.S. v. Microsoft,’ antitrust law is finally coming back for Big Tech.

The social network failed to hit the growth targets its new owner set in 2019. But were they ever compatible with what Tumblr does best?

Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky, which competes directly with X (formerly Twitter), has crossed 2 million users

Clyde will disappear by December 1st and it’s not clear why.

Apple’s support for the widely used messaging standard will make it easier for Android phones to share messages with iPhones—while ditching the old and flawed SMS standard.

After already delaying a plan to have an in-house chip ready by next year, Apple is now likely to miss a goal to ship the component by the spring of 2025, according to people familiar with the situation.

A year ago, scientists generated net energy with a fusion reactor. This is what’s happened since then.

Dream Track allows musicians to license out their voices with AI, just days after YouTube cracked down on AI on its platform.

Samsung Electronics is notifying some of its customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information to an unauthorized individual.

Spotify , on Thursday, expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to use large language models (LLMs) to help identify a user's listening patterns across podcasts and audiobooks in order to suggest tailor-made recommendations.

Maia is for AI, while the Arm-based Cobalt is for general-purpose computing. The hardware will be available next to AMD, Nvidia and Intel chips on Azure.

Hopefully without a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” this time.

OpenAI unveiled its more powerful and updated language model, GPT-4 Turbo, at its developer conference, offering customised bots and reduced costs for developers.

Called Detumbler, it's designed as a way to tackle the growing problem of space debris in Earth orbit.

Time for eBay jockeys to ready their watchlists for second-hand clunkers

The policy is meant to help prevent users from being confused by synthetic content

Nepal has decided to ban TikTok because the popular short video app was disrupting social structures in the South Asian nation, government officials say.

Have you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?

GraphCast, the search giant's fresh new AI, is about to make it rain on meteorologists.

You can take Facebook out of China, but you can’t take China out of Facebook.