TECHNOLOGY

Along southwestern Albania's coastline, the sun shines bright -- warming the 234,828 new solar panels at the Karavasta power station that will be connected to the country's energy grid in the coming weeks.

The Finnish telecom giant said the project aims to accelerate the development of fundamental technologies and innovative applications supported by the 6G technology and address the future needs of both industry and society.

Iraqi gamers celebrated the release Thursday of the latest instalment of the "Assassin's Creed" action-adventure saga, set in ninth century Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate.

Elon Musk's social media platform X has stripped headlines from news articles shared by users, in a move likely to further worsen relations with media groups.

Tiger populations are on the rise in the jungles of India and Nepal and the predators are roaming ever closer to villages, sparking a race among conservationists to find ways of avoiding conflict.

Google on Wednesday said its latest premium-priced Pixel phone would have powerful generative AI models running independently on the device, as the search engine giant seeks to lure buyers away from the latest iPhone.

A self-driving car operated by US company Cruise ran over a woman after she was first knocked in front of it by a hit-and-run driver in San Francisco late Monday, video showed.

Meta's proposed plan is in response to European regulators' demands, The Wall Street Journal reported.

A report said 7,420,748 WhatsApp accounts were banned in India in August, and of them, 3,506,905 were proactively barred before users sent negative feedback about them.

AI Vincent Van Gogh is patient but unimpressed by yet another question about his chopped-off ear.

Meta's chief technology officer is quick to push back on assertions that the company has fallen behind rivals like ChatGPT in the explosive surge across the tech industry in generative AI. "The majority of the world's population will have their first experience of generative artificial intelligence with us," Andrew "Boz" Bosworth told AFP at the company's recent Connect conference for developers.

Four patent applications filed this month underlined PayPal's interest in layer-2 and non-fungible tokens.

Data collated by 21.co, the parent company of 21Shares, from blockchain ecosystem analytics Dune highlighted that wallet addresses linked to Lazarus Group currently hold approximately $46.14 million in digital assets.

The post-retirement careers of the biggest sports stars can be fascinating to watch -- Viagra ads, property ventures, crypto projects -- but one option is becoming a sure-fire winner: put your face on the cover of a video game.

For the first time, scientists have observed antimatter particles -- the mysterious twins of the visible matter all around us -- falling downwards due to the effect of gravity, Europe's physics lab CERN announced on Wednesday.

Aside from support for the crypto wallet and its possible integration in the gaming console, no other details have been revealed.

Small, artificially intelligent boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are the latest weapon in the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling destructive jungle invaders.

The arrest, which was partially captured on social media, took place while the YouTuber was on his way to confront an individual named Carlos Diaz, whom he accused of stealing his Lamborghini.

The company is investigating the hack and plans to resume service after fixes.

China now may have the computing power at its disposal to match, or even overtake, technology leaders like the United States in several areas that could be key to becoming the dominant economic and military power in the world.

The business world continues to evolve with new ideas, markets, industries and technologies.

"Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers, and several novelists including Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult, accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models," algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit.

Amazon's popular Alexa digital assistant is about to be supercharged with the powers of generative artificial intelligence, the company said on Wednesday, as the tech giant steps into the AI race dominated by ChatGPT, Google and Microsoft.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it is going to make it easier for people to pay Indian businesses through a WhatsApp chat using whatever method they prefer.

Researchers at Google DeepMind, the tech giant's artificial intelligence arm, on Tuesday introduced a tool that predicts whether genetic mutations are likely to cause harm, a breakthrough that could help research into rare diseases.

Google on Tuesday said it had integrated Gmail, YouTube and other tools into its Bard chatbot as the tech giants seek to persuade users that generative AI is useful and not dangerous or just a fad.

Elon Musk has sparked outrage among fans of his social media platform X by suggesting he might introduce a monthly fee for all users, in what would be the biggest shake-up since he took over the site then known as Twitter last October.

The decision of leading automakers to deepen their collaboration with Cipia is not just a business move; it's a statement. The alignment with Cipia signals a shared commitment to bringing forth a safer and more innovative future for transportation.

Five members of the ASEAN including Thailand are working together to establish a regional cross-border payments system that uses QR codes and e-wallets. Thailand's unbanked and underserved communities as well as SMEs are expected to benefit.