Lunar occultations involving planets are relatively rare, but there are a few more coming up in the next few weeks and months - with Jupiter tipped to be visible from northern parts of the UK on a date in mid-May.
EVER wondered how Apple got its name – or why its logo has a bite taken out of it? The answers to both might surprise you. This is the iconic Apple logo – but why is there a bite-mark?Credit: ...
HOUSEHOLDS with older TVs could run into problems when the BBC switches all its channels to HD next year. The broadcaster is planning to shutdown all standard definition (SD) versions of its channels on satellite. Modern TVs take HDMI ...
THE early parts of the year are known for having some lacklustre releases, but 2023 is bucking the trend. January saw big releases in Hi-Fi Rush and Forspoken, and February has a number of big games to follow up. ...
(Currys) It doesn’t take much for a good TV to enhance your viewing experience from the comfort of your living room, but the quality that separates the good from the unmissable is in the finer detail where it really ...
Central China’s Henan province, home to the world’s largest iPhone factory, is investing 50 billion yuan (US$7.39 billion) on a digital infrastructure expansion programme that will help move its industries up the value chain, advancing beyond labour-intensive manufacturing activities. ...
Now is a great time to start using healthy digital habits and you still have time to make a resolution to yourself and try to follow it this year. Kaspersky experts have prepared a list of simple healthy digital ...
Mr Isara, right, and Mr Lee at the signing ceremony. Daol Digital Partner, a technology firm under Daol (Thailand), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with InterOpera to strategically collaborate on providing digital asset services in Thailand. Daol ...
The Biden administration is considering cutting off Huawei Technologies Co from all of its American suppliers, including Intel Corp and Qualcomm Inc, as the US government intensifies a crackdown on the Chinese technology sector. Sales from US firms to ...
Business Insider Protesters rally as Philadelphia Police officers and Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers look on, June 1, 2020.AP Photo/Matt Slocum Tyre Nichols, 29, died after he was beaten by police at a traffic stop January 7. Campaign Zero, a ...
A Manitoba-based photographer captured the green glow of the aurora borealis over South Indian Lake on Friday, January 27, as the temperature fell to -23 degrees Fahrenheit (-30 Celsius). Timelapse footage published to Twitter by RJ Roldan shows the ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple special event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California on September 7, 2022. – Apple is expected to unveil the new iPhone 14. (Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small / AFP) (Photo by BRITTANY ...
Elon Musk said Tesla had seen a jump in demand in January. REUTERS Elon Musk’s recent decision to enact major price cuts for Tesla vehicles has reportedly angered customers who paid significantly more for the same models before the ...
Top Chinese memory chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) is laying off up to 10 per cent of its workforce less than two months after it was added to a US trade blacklist. According to one source familiar ...
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks the company will launch a foldable iPad with a carbon fiber kickstand in 2024. Kuo’s prediction matches a 2022 report from CCS Insight which expected Apple to launch a foldable iPad instead of a ...
A HIDDEN menu on your iPhone unlocks special texting features that you may have missed. It gives you bonus features, including the ability to edit or unsend texts. Your iMessage has a hidden menu that lets you edit and ...
Nasa has received the green light for a new facility to house Martian samples – and perhaps alien life. The facility, based in Texas, should be ready by 2033, when the samples from Mars' Perseverance rover are expected to ...
SINGAPORE – About 2,000 organisations have registered with a government central registry designed to help users identify scam messages on their phone. Companies that are not part of the white list set up by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) ...
Chinese smart electric-vehicle (EV) start-up Xpeng has appointed former Great Wall Motor executive Wang Fengying as its president, as the Guangzhou-based premium carmaker sets its sights on China’s mass market amid a rising preference for cheaper cars. Wang, 53, ...
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which advised UK health departments on who should get COVID jabs, will be responsible for recommending whether children should get chickenpox shots as standard.
Experts have warned those looking to get a quick tan not to turn to a product popular on social media, which has the potential to cause serious side effects including melanoma. To the horror of UNSW medical experts, influencers have ...
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is pulling the plug on its Thailand and Indonesian platforms in a major setback for the company’s overseas expansion efforts, a move that comes as the country’s Big Tech firms rein in costs amid stalled ...
Baidu is planning to roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the matter, potentially China’s most prominent entry in a race touched off by the tech phenomenon. China’s largest ...
Hublot unveiled two meaningful timepieces loaded with significance at LVMH Watch Week 2023, one that echoes its past and another that points us towards a hopeful future. In an homage to its creation story, Hublot introduced the Classic Fusion ...
The development of measures to promote the domestic production of electric vehicle (EV) batteries remains deadlocked because of differing opinions between the Finance Ministry and the Industry Ministry, says a National EV Policy Committee source who requested anonymity. The ...
A motorbike on display at Motor Expo 2022. The FTI expects motorcycle manufacturing for the domestic market to tally 1.75 million units this year. The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) estimates motorcycle production will grow by 4.17% year-on-year to ...
Outspoken senator Jacqui Lambie has issues a chilling warning to parents to think twice before sharing photos of their children online. Without naming any platforms, the Tasmanian senator appeared on the Today show and described social media was “open slather ...
Aspirational workday vlogs once dominated TikTok — but following mass layoffs across the tech industry, videos flexing company perks have been replaced with content about unemployment and labor rights. The past few months have been particularly brutal in the ...
ByteDance’s general counsel is no longer overseeing US government relations for TikTok, part of a shuffle to improve the company’s standing during intense national security scrutiny, according to people familiar with the matter. TikTok has been in contact with ...
Will 2023 be the year when Huawei Technologies Co stops the rot and finally manages to reverse declining revenue? Analysts are optimistic it can, but the jury is still out on whether the telecoms equipment giant can build a ...
The rapid rise of ChatGPT has accelerated an AI arms race that could change the way we search the web. As Google looks to its past for inspiration and Microsoft makes a multibillion dollar bet, could there still be room for someone new to make an impression?
A GP has told Sky News it's "better to be safe than sorry" if you regularly get manicures at a nail salon after a study found UV lamps used to dry gel nails can kill cells - and could be linked to skin cancer.
NASA released images of a structure on Mars that resembles a bear. Is it a bear? A wolf? A “doge?” The internet has mixed opinions on an image released by NASA showing what looks like a bear’s face on Mars. NASA’s Mars ...
For many, the cloud is an obscure, ethereal place to send files when they run out of space on their phone or laptop. But all of that information goes to a physical site – a data centre where thousands ...
The layoff announcements coming lately from the chief executive of big technology companies all contain variations on the theme of “we hired too many people during the pandemic”, expressed with varying degrees of contrition. At one end of the spectrum ...
With the rail industry in turmoil and the train network a national embarrassment, a regional airline should have been able to offer a realistic alternative.
A Google executive claims he was booted by the tech giant for rejecting a high-ranking female boss’ grabby advances at a posh company dinner. Ryan Olohan, 48, accuses Google and one of its top executives, Tiffany Miller, of firing him ...
Emmanuel Jean-Pierre is an aspiring writer who’s planning to release his first novel for young adults later this year. And, at least for now, he’s a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service who’s hungry for a regular creative ...
Gaming suite An aurora-borealis at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within a Leicester Square hotel suite? Well, no… not exactly, though you might be forgiven for thinking as much. I was staying ...
A community-funded DNA project has helped detectives identify a murdered woman whose remains were stuffed in a canvas sack and dumped in the Arizona desert more than half a century ago. Authorities named the victim as Colleen Audrey Rice, ...