Technology

Vingroup’s VinSpace signs SpaceX to launch Vietnam’s first home-built satellites

VinSpace, a Vietnamese space startup that did not exist a year ago, has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its first home-built satellites into orbit in 2027. The company, a subsidiary of the sprawling Vingroup conglomerate, will hitch…

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction

Beyond Elon Musk’s interpretation of The Odyssey, Silicon Valley leaders have often misunderstood classic books like Foundation and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s evident in their tech.

Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave Courts in England and Wales have joined a number of restaurants, theatres and pubs in banning Meta glasses…

Trump expects Iranian economy to collapse under US pressure

According to the US leader, Iran's currency has almost no value

Google's AI safety team tells job seekers: Skip our AI, talk to a human

Google DeepMind's safety team uses a special form for job applications. This ensures human review, as AI tools may incorrectly screen candidates. The team acknowledges that reading AI-generated answers becomes tiresome for humans. Google…

UK businesses don't have a CX innovation problem. They have an operational readiness problem.

UK organizations are racing to modernize customer experience . AI-powered chatbots , agent assistants, workflow automation, and self-service tools are rapidly becoming standard across customer operations as businesses look to improve…

Shipping OneSignal for Shipaton

Have you ever noticed how much of your push notification code has nothing to do with your product? Token tables, refresh callbacks, stale-token pruning, a separate iOS pipeline-none of it is the feature, yet all of it needs maintaining…

Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom

Uniper, the German energy giant that Berlin rescued from collapse three years ago, is betting its next chapter on the server racks now reshaping Europe’s power market. The utility plans to invest around €5bn ($5.7bn) by 2030 in a strategy…

US fuel sales to Cuban business bring a glimpse of capitalism to Havana

HAVANA, Aug 11 - Gasoline at $38 a gallon sold from cramped apartments. Diesel hawked on Instagram by a celebrity model to a reggaeton soundtrack. Six decades after Fidel Castro’s revolution, all of a sudden, capitalist cracks are…

Worried about data centres near you? The UK map shows most facilities are in London, but things are changing fast

Report finds 40% of British-based data centres are in London Recent analysis shows the UK has 555 data center installations operational, second only to the USA (4,423) Energy costs in the UK could slow development of data centres…

'Insulting Lord Ram, Sita': Google tells HC why Dhruve Rathee's video was witheld

'It's only 4x the price it should be' — Amazon's latest DDR5 RAM deal isn't convincing buyers, but it could get worse

Seeing the red 'limited-time deal' banner on some DDR5 RAM at Amazon should elicit some excitement given the rarity of price cuts lately. But when you click through and see the price for this 32GB Corsair Vengeance kit , you'll wonder if…