Technology

Turkey on Friday blocked access to the Instagram social media network, the national communications authority said without explanation, following censorship accusations against the US company by a high-ranking Turkish official. The BTK communications authority said in...

A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday. “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5...

Top-secret Australian military intelligence will be stored on a custom cloud server built by US tech giant Amazon, Canberra said Thursday as it unveiled the US$1.3 billion deal. The Australian government said Amazon Web Services would...

Brazil on Tuesday demanded Meta cease taking users’ data to train its generative AI models, a move the US tech giant called “a setback.” The decision was issued by Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority, which warned...

NASA reaffirmed on Friday that the first astronauts to ride Boeing’s problematic Starliner are not “stranded” at the International Space Station, even if there is no set timeline for their return. After weeks of bad news...

The first administrative officer robot in South Korea was declared dead by the municipal council on Wednesday after it fell down some steps. The incident was reported in the local media, which lamented the first robot...

The troubled aerospace behemoth Boeing will attempt again on Saturday to launch its first crew to the International Space Station on a Starliner spacecraft, following the cancellation of the previous effort only hours before takeoff. NASA...

The government announced on Thursday that Google would invest $2.0 billion in Malaysia to host the company’s first data center and “cloud region” there. “The Ministry of Investment, Trade & Industry has secured a commitment by...

A corporate database revealed on Monday that China has invested over $47 billion in the nation’s largest-ever chip investment fund, reflecting Beijing’s goal of becoming self-sufficient in the vital field of semiconductor manufacturing. Semiconductors are an...

Reddit has partnered with OpenAI to bring its content to popular chatbot ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday, sending the social media platform’s shares up 12% in extended trade. The deal underscores Reddit’s attempt to diversify...