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Clones, noseprints, flying taxis: Sci-fi meets reality at expo
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» BARCELONA: The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is primarily a pow-wow for the big-wigs of the telecom industry, but far from the main thoroughfares of the vast conference there are always hidden tech gems.
Musk sees aliens, tunnels in a candlelit G20 vision of the future
AFP, Published on 14/11/2022
» NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Sitting in the dark, wearing a traditional Indonesian batik shirt and surrounded by candles, Elon Musk offered a vision for the future that includes aliens, deep tunnels and rocket tourism.
Companies envision taxis flying above jammed traffic
AFP, Published on 10/05/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: As urban traffic gets more miserable, entrepreneurs are looking to a future in which commuters hop into "air taxis" that whisk them over clogged roads.
Tesla's cameras-only autonomous system stirs controversy
AFP, Published on 07/01/2022
» LAS VEGAS: As it pursues the goal of fully autonomous driving, Tesla has bet entirely on cameras and artificial intelligence, shunning other commonly used tools such as laser detection.
Perseverance rover, helicopter land on Mars this week
AFP, Published on 16/02/2021
» WASHINGTON: After a seven-month journey, Nasa's Perseverance rover prepares to touch down on Mars on Thursday after first negotiating a risky landing procedure that will mark the start of its multi-year search for signs of ancient microbial life.
Super fast 5G in the US still a work in progress
AFP, Published on 17/01/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - Marketing pitches in the US are bullish on superfast 5G telecom networks, but they remain more of a promise than reality.
Twitter service restored following global platform outage
AFP, Published on 16/10/2020
» SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter was restored Thursday evening after a technical problem caused a global outage of nearly two hours on the social media platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide.
TikTok gave rural Indian women fame, fun and more
AFP, Published on 22/07/2020
» NEW DELHI: When India banned TikTok, it closed a window to the wider world for legions of women outside the big cities that provided fun, fame and even fortune.
Facebook boss to apologise to European Parliament
AFP, Published on 22/05/2018
» Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg will say sorry to the European Parliament on Tuesday, pledging that the social media giant has learned hard lessons from a massive breach of users' personal data.
Cuba slashes internet costs
AFP, Published on 20/12/2016
» HAVANA - Cuba cut the price of internet access by 25 percent Monday, but getting online still costs more than a day's wages for the average worker in one of the world's least connected countries.