Tech & Science

German online takeaway food company Delivery Hero (DHER.DE) said this week that it would close its global tech hubs in Turkey and Taiwan and adjust the headcount at its ...

Nissan Motor (7201.T) has announced that it would sell China-developed electric vehicles (EVs) globally as it struck a deal with the country’s top university to leverage local resources to ...

IBM (IBM.N) on Monday said that it would buy Software AG’s (SOWGn.DE) enterprise technology platforms for 2.13 billion euros ($2.33 billion) to bolster its artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud ...

Mercedes Benz (MBGn.DE) said on Monday it would carry out level 3 autonomous driving tests on designated highways in Beijing, without giving an exact time frame. The German automaker said ...

Better use of grass-covered areas across the EU can protect nature and strengthen agriculture. By Vedrana Simicevic German farmers in the Lower Oder Valley National Park on the eastern border ...

Electric vehicle charging companies in Europe and the US have started fighting over the best spots for fast public chargers, and industry watchers predict fresh rounds of consolidation as more ...

Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed up to push for open digital ecosystems in response to ...

South Korea will provide 38 trillion won ($29 billion) in financing to strengthen its battery industry over the next five years, as global competition to secure battery supply chains remains fierce, the ...

Meta Platforms’ (META.O) lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according ...

“Fortnite” maker Epic Games won a major antitrust trial against Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) in San Francisco, persuading a federal jury on Monday that some of the technology giant’...

A federal judge in Virginia has rejected cybersecurity company Centripetal Networks’ patent infringement claims against Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) in a multi-billion-dollar fight over network-security technology. A different judge in ...

Elon Musk’s social media platform X’s 2023 ad sales are projected to fall to about $2.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Several companies including Comcast (CMCSA.O) and Walt ...

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) said on Tuesday that music streaming giant Spotify (SPOT.N) would host the media conglomerate’s podcasts as part of its monetization drive. Spotify’s ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) is recalling just over 2 million vehicles in the United States fitted with its Autopilot advanced driver-assistance system to install new safeguards, after a federal safety regulator said ...

Cyprus National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre, in conjunction with the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF), this week announced the launch of a new support scheme that aims to strengthen cybersecurity in ...

Electric vehicle drivers hoping to top up their batteries at one of Repsol’s (REP.MC) 1,600 Spanish charging stations might well be disappointed, with nearly half lying dormant because they ...

Research projects in Europe developed water-surface scanners and better hull designs to tackle shipping accidents. By Tom Cassauwers When one of the world’s largest container ships crashed into the ...

Toyota Motor (7203.T) said this week it would increase its line-up of battery electric vehicles in Europe to six models by 2026 and it expected such vehicles to make up more ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said this week that his company would do its best to supply its artificial intelligence processors to Japan amid extremely high market demand. Japan ...

Marijuana shows promise in treating illnesses ranging from depression and addiction to arthritis and epilepsy. By Vittoria D’Alessio Callie Seaman was 16 when she started smoking cannabis to control her ...

How to sum up the most important news of the year past? The obvious answer in 2023 is to use Artificial Intelligence. In that spirit, I asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT and ...

Japanese electronic parts maker TDK Corp (6762.T) will manufacture lithium ion (li-ion) battery cells for Apple (AAPL.O) iPhones in India, a minister said earlier this week. Apple has been ...

Europe on Friday reached a provisional deal on landmark European Union rules governing the use of artificial intelligence including governments’ use of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate ...

Artificial intelligence, which can already generate texts and mimic human speech, might also help the world prepare for the worsening effects of climate change. By Tom Cassauwers In late October, ...