Apple CEO Tim Cook was in China for the second time this year, he said on social media Tuesday, as the U.S. technology giant seeks to shore up slumping sales in a crucial overseas market. The iPhone maker remains popular among Chinese consumers but has ceded ground to domestic rivals

Meta, the company behind Facebook, announced on Friday that it's releasing new artificial intelligence (AI) models from its research team. One of the highlights is a tool called the "Self-Taught Evaluator," which could reduce the need for humans in developing AI. 

A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nasa launched the spacecraft at 12:06 local time (16:06 GMT) after hurricane Milton forced the mission to postpone plans last week. Europa Clipper

Google has signed a deal to use small nuclear reactors to generate the vast amounts of energy needed to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres. The company says the agreement with Kairos Power will see it start using the first reactor this decade and bring more online by

Amazon is bolstering its e-commerce empire while continuing a march deeper into people's lives, from robots to healthcare and entertainment. Innovations unveiled in recent days by the Seattle-based tech titan included a delivery van computer system to shave time off deliveries by

Tesla boss Elon Musk is to unveil the firm's long-awaited robotaxi prototype, the Cybercab, at the Warner Bros Studios in Burbank, California on Thursday. Self-driving cars have long fascinated Mr Musk and he has made a series of bold predictions about them - including that they

The US government is considering seeking the break-up of the world's biggest search engine, Google, which it accuses of causing "pernicious harms" to Americans. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been considering so-called remedies since a landmark court ruling in August

Californian company OpenAI, which makes generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, said Wednesday it was expanding its global reach with four new offices. The firm, which recently got a massive cash injection from investors including Microsoft and chip titan Nvidia, said it would open new sites in

The platform formerly known as Twitter was suspended in Brazil, one of its largest markets, at the end of August. Brazil’s Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Elon Musk’s X after the platform was blocked amid a dispute over disinformation. “I authorise the immediate

A United States judge has ordered Alphabet’s Google to overhaul its mobile app business to give Android users more options to download apps and pay for transactions within them, following a jury verdict last year for Fortnite maker Epic Games. The injunction on Monday by US

The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has attempted to pay fines owed to the Brazilian government in a bid to resume services in the country. But the Reuters news agency reported on Friday that Brazil’s Supreme Court has yet to lift the site’s suspension,

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has raised $6.6bn in its latest funding round, as investors including its early backer Microsoft continue to bet big on artificial intelligence (AI). The deal gave the tech company a value of $157bn (£118bn) - similar to investment bank Goldman Sachs

Tech giant Oracle on Wednesday said it plans to invest more than $6.5 billion on cloud services data centres in Malaysia, joining a list of US titans rushing to build up their AI infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The firm said the cloud region would help organisations in the country

A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, docked at 17:30 eastern time (22:30 BST). The pair arrived at the station on

A Brazilian judge locked in a legal row with X owner Elon Musk on Friday said he would reinstate the social network in Brazil if a fine of around $1.8 million was paid. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes last month ordered X to be shut down in Brazil, after Musk refused to

Meta launched AI chatbots voiced by Hollywood celebrities like John Cena and Judi Dench on Wednesday, betting that its billions of users are eager to embrace artificial intelligence. “I think that voice has the potential to be one of, if not the most frequent ways, that we all

Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology adviser Md Nahid Islam said today that there was no directive from the government to shut down internet services in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). “There have been isolated incidents of temporary internet disruptions, which

Some X users in Brazil have said they can once again access the social media platform, the BBC has learned. This comes after the service, formerly known as Twitter, was banned in the country at the end of August. The change was made possible after the firm, which is owned by

A syndicate led by Smart Technologies, backed by former finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s daughter Nafisa Kamal, has allegedly siphoned off millions of dollars from a foreign-funded project of the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA). The $67 million

TigerIT, an internationally blacklisted firm, has maintained a stranglehold on the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) over the last 13 years, managing important projects like number plates and digital smart card driving licences with the blessings of the top level of the deposed