Meta to lay off another 10,000 employees
Meta has announced another round of layoffs in 2023. Last year, the company fired as many as 11,000 employees and it is now all set…
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International Space Station fires thrusters to avoid satellite collision
The International Space Station (ISS) was compelled to move out of the way of an Earth-imaging satellite that was directly in its path. Thrusters on…
Meta’s Instagram back up after brief global outage
Meta Platform’s Instagram was back up for most users after a global outage, the photo-sharing platform said on Thursday, adding that an hours-long technical issue…
Scientists find new layer in Earth’s inner core
A research team from Australian National University (ANU) found evidence of a new layer within the Earth’s inner core. The “innermost inner core” is like…
Elon Musk recruits team to develop OpenAI’s ChatGPT rival
Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, internatiional media reported on…
Microsoft accidentally prompted users to upgrade to Windows 11
Last week, Microsoft accidentally prompted users to upgrade to Windows 11 even though their PCs didn’t meet the operating system’s minimum requirements. Twitter user, PhantomOcean3…
Meta heats up Big Tech’s AI arms race with new language model
Meta Platforms Inc said on Friday it was releasing to researchers a new large language model, the core software of a new artificial intelligence system,…
Instagram and Facebook to get paid-for verification
Facebook and Instagram users will soon need to pay to be verified on the social media platforms, as Meta follows in the footsteps of rival…
NASA finds evidence of lakes in unexpected region of Mars
NASA’s curiosity rover made an unexpected and exciting discovery when it arrived at the “sulfate-bearing unit” of Mars: rippled rock textures that indicate lakes once…
PM Shehbaz forms committee to make Special Technology Zones Authority functional
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, while expressing displeasure over the performance of Special Technology Zones Authority, has formed a committee under the chairmanship of Finance…