Elon Musk has announced the end of his search for the next CEO of Twitter. In a Twitter post on Thursday, Musk said the unnamed woman would take over from him in about six weeks. Musk added that he would transition to executive chair and chief technology officer “overseeing

A British national extradited to the US last month has pleaded guilty in New York to a role in one of the biggest hacks in social media history. The July 2020 Twitter hack affected over 130 accounts including those of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Joseph James O'Connor, 23, known

LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft that focuses on business professionals, said on Monday it will cut 716 jobs as demand wavers, while also shutting down its China-focused jobs app. LinkedIn, which has 20,000 employees, grew revenue in each quarter in 2022, but it

MICROSOFT on Thursday (May 4) expanded public access to its generative artificial intelligence programmes, despite fears that tech firms are rushing ahead too quickly with potentially dangerous technology. The AI-enhanced features of the company’s Bing search engine and Edge

Samsung is restricting the use of so-called generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT for employees after the company discovered such services were being misused. The South Korean technology giant confirmed to CNBC Tuesday that it is temporarily restricting the use of

On April 28th, according to Reuters, Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter Inc, announced that the social media platform will be implementing a 10% fee on content subscriptions after the first year.  The aim of this move is to diversify the company’s revenue sources by monetizing

A bunch of scientists from the University of Georgia have created a new method for discovering and categorising new worlds that are far away from Earth. They have encountered an exoplanet using machine learning, a wing of artificial intelligence (AI). The recent examination showed that

Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that WhatsApp is finally rolling out the option for users to log into the messaging app from more than one phone. Taking to Facebook, Zuckerberg announced: “Starting today, you can log into the same WhatsApp account

The UK will conduct its first test of a new emergency alert service on Sunday, with millions of mobile phones set to emit a loud alarm and vibrate at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT). The national system, modelled on similar schemes in Canada, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States, aims to

Google has paused construction of a massive campus in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose as it reins in costs, CNBC reported on Friday. Google's parent company Alphabet early this year announced it would cut about 12,000 jobs globally, citing a challenging economic reality.

Elon Musk's SpaceX company's mammoth new rocket, Starship, has exploded on its maiden flight. No-one was hurt in the uncrewed test that lifted off from Texas' east coast on Thursday morning local time. After two to three minutes into the flight, the rocket - the biggest

Twitter boss Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft as he accused the technology giant of using data from his social media company without permission. "They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time," the multi-billionaire said in a tweet. Mr Musk was

Fox Corp and Fox News have settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5m, averting a high-profile trial putting one of the world's top media companies in the crosshairs over its coverage of false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 US election. The settlement was

About 300 people queued at Apple’s store in Mumbai on Tuesday, as fans took selfies with Chief Executive Tim Cook, who inaugurated the first retail store run by the tech giant in India, underscoring the importance of its market. “The energy, creativity, and passion in

SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond. Liftoff of the gigantic rocket was called off just minutes ahead of the scheduled launch time because of a pressurisation

The most powerful rocket ever developed is about to attempt a maiden launch. The vehicle, known as Starship, has been built by the American entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company. It stands almost 120m (400ft) high and is designed to have almost double the thrust of any rocket

Elon Musk has formed an X.AI artificial intelligence corporation based in the US state of Nevada, according to business documents that surfaced on Friday. Musk, who is already the boss of Twitter and Tesla, was listed as a director of X.AI Corporation founded on March 9, a state

Montana has become the first US state to pass legislation banning TikTok on personal devices. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been accused of posing a national security risk through data gathered from users. If signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte, the

In a significant move, chip-maker Intel on Wednesday said it will work with British chip designer ARM to build low-power compute system-on-chips (SoCs). The collaboration will focus on mobile SoC designs first, but allows for potential design expansion into automotive, Internet of

Apple is in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand as part of the company’s continuing efforts to expand its manufacturing presence beyond China, Japan’s Nikkei has reported. Suppliers who are participating in these talks have existing manufacturing complexes in