Meta Platforms Inc on Wednesday compared searches by EU antitrust regulators to a fishing super trawler as watchdogs investigate the owner of Facebook’s data and online marketplace. Meta says it has already handed over more than a million documents to the European Commission since its first request in 2019 regarding its Facebook Marketplace, social networking […]
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A Nigerian man has launched a project called “Looty” to reclaim African artifacts stolen by European colonisers by creating 3-D images of them, selling them as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and using the proceeds to fund young African artists. Calls for objects stolen during the colonial period to be returned to their places of origin have […]
A unilateral pronouncement that the acquisition of Twitter Inc is “on hold”. Fierce criticism of the social media company’s handling of spam accounts. A “poop emoji” directed at Twitter’s chief executive, Parag Agrawal. These are just some of Elon Musk’s tweets in the last four days, culminating in a suggestion by the Tesla Inc chief […]
Every Virtual Reality (VR) videogame fan loves a good shoot-out. To be immersed in the dust and intensity of a raging firefight with your buddies, aiming weapons manually and physically tossing a grenade into a window. Few videogames today can match the emersion of such an experience. That is not what modern armed forces have […]
Quick, think of a scary technology – one with the potential to enslave humankind or destroy the earth. Did you think of AI? Few other technologies generate the fear factor of artificial intelligence. Ever since Alan Turing introduced the idea in 1948, people have wondered what would happen if machines outsmarted their creators and took […]
With a stable of businesses ranging from electric cars to private rocket ships, iconoclastic billionaire Elon Musk has become the richest person in the world by building a fortune firmly planted in 21st century technology. With an all-cash $43 billion offer to buy Twitter Inc, Musk may soon emulate the tycoons of the past by […]
The world of cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and Blockchains overall is the wild west of the internet. Barely regulated, fraught with fraudsters, and brimming with scammers, it is up to the individual to tread carefully and only connect their wallets to what they trust. Still, trust can be abused as famous influencers use their platform and their […]
Two of the world’s richest people are pitching in ideas to tackle the issue of homelessness, suggesting that Twitter Inc convert its headquarters to a shelter home. Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos on Sunday backed an idea put forth by Elon Musk, who recently became Twitter’s largest shareholder, to convert the social networking firm’s San […]
Creating a technology that demands the comprehensive analysis of brain signals and then mentally interpreting them into actions commanded through a device’s output to action these commands, would give birth to a direct communication link between brain and machines, referred to as Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). What is Brain Computer Interface? While this might seem like […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development expressed concern about the situation at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Friday following its takeover by Russian forces and a problem with its power supply. EBRD concerned about Chernobyl nuclear plant amid Ukrainian warningsLVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development expressed concern about […]