Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced Ocelot, a new quantum computing chip that can reduce the costs of implementing quantum error correction by up to 90 per cent, compared to current approaches. Developed by the team at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing at the California Institute of
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s celestial neighbour ahead of astronaut missions. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander descended
Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online. The tech giant said Friday it will retire Skype in May and shift some of its services to Microsoft Teams, its flagship videoconfe
WhatsApp has commenced the rollout of its much-anticipated voice message transcription feature in India, providing users with a seamless way to read the contents of voice messages without the need to listen to them. Initially announced in November 2024, this feature is currently available for Andr
Liverpool opened up a 13-point lead in the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over Newcastle United as closest pursuers Arsenal played out a 0-0 stalemate at Nottingham Forest on Wednesday. If the weekend's results appeared to have given Liverpool one hand on the trophy, Arne Slot's team now seem u
Amazon on Wednesday announced an upgraded Alexa experience, Alexa+, powered by generative AI technologies. Amazon's devices and services chief Panos Panay called it a "complete re-architecture" of the AI assistant. "The new Alexa knows ... your schedule, your smart home, your preferences, the dev
NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to search the Milky Way for reservoirs of water, a crucial ingredient for life. The US space agency's SPHEREx space telescope is
A federal judge on Tuesday said Meta Platforms META.O must face a lawsuit claiming that the Facebook and Instagram parent prefers to hire foreign workers because it can pay them less than American workers, reports Reuters. US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said three US citi
Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 is now publicly available - or open source - in a move likely to increase its uptake and intensify competition in AI, reports Reuters. Alibaba's announcement follows simi
Meta Platforms is in discussions to construct a new data centre campus for its artificial intelligence projects, with potential costs exceeding $200 billion, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Meta executives have informed data centre developers that the c
