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Driver booked for falling asleep in 'autopilot' Tesla 01 Dec 2018 - 11:56 am

San Francisco, A man was arrested in California, US, on suspicion of drinking and driving after he fell asleep behind the wheel of...

Editing your travel photos can make all the difference - here's how to do it 01 Dec 2018 - 10:51 am

Deborah Sandidge is a travel photographer who has written books on photography, teaches advanced photo technique workshops and has been honored as a...

Next US moon landing will be by private companies, not NASA 01 Dec 2018 - 02:59 am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: America's next moon landing will be made by private companies - not NASA. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Thursday that...

Apple puts music service on Amazon Echo in subscription push 30 Nov 2018 - 09:54 pm

Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. announced their second partnership this month: the iPhone maker’s music-streaming service is coming to Amazon’s Echo devices in...

AT&T plans three streaming options in its war with Netflix 30 Nov 2018 - 09:54 pm

AT&T Inc. is putting its new Time Warner arsenal of media properties to work, unveiling plans to roll out a three-tiered streaming-video service...

NASA chief says Elon Musk won't be smoking joints publicly again 30 Nov 2018 - 07:36 pm

Washington: NASA chief Jim Bridenstine elaborated this week on the reasons why the US space agency launched a safety review of SpaceX and...

Otter versus koi: the battle that has gripped Canada 30 Nov 2018 - 07:12 pm

Vancouver: An epic battle has been playing out in a classical Chinese garden in Canada's Pacific coast city of Vancouver between a ravenous...

2018 temperatures set to be among hottest on record: UN 30 Nov 2018 - 11:33 am

Geneva: Global temperatures in 2018 are set to be the fourth highest on record, the UN said yesterday, stressing the urgent need for...

Netflix to make 'alternative' French revolution series 28 Nov 2018 - 08:35 pm

Paris: Netflix will make a fantasy crime series set during the French Revolution, with the creator of the guillotine investigating a "blue blood"...

Facebook knew of Russian data gathering in 2014: UK lawmaker 27 Nov 2018 - 06:51 pm

Facebook Inc. knew that Russian-linked entities were using a feature on the social network that let advertisers harvest large amounts of data as...

Google employees push to stop Project Dragonfly 27 Nov 2018 - 05:45 pm

Eleven employees comprising engineers and managers at Alphabet Inc's Google published an open letter on Tuesday, demanding that the company end development of...

Google accused of manipulation to track users 27 Nov 2018 - 02:18 pm

Oslo: Seven European consumer groups filed complaints against Google with national regulators Tuesday, accusing the internet giant of covertly tracking users' movements in...

Drones can help find, count marine megafauna: Study 27 Nov 2018 - 11:43 am

New York, Consumer-grade drones are effective tools for monitoring marine species across multiple sites in the wild, suggests a research opening a platform...

Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool 27 Nov 2018 - 09:29 am

SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet Inc's Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type. Tap...

Cheers as Mars InSight spacecraft lands on Red Planet 27 Nov 2018 - 08:55 am

Pasadena, United States, Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a waist-high unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down...

Gene-edited baby claim by Chinese scientist sparks outrage 26 Nov 2018 - 10:03 pm

HONG KONG: Scientists and bioethics experts reacted with shock, anger and alarm Monday to a Chinese researcher's claim that he helped make the...

Anxiety abounds at NASA as Mars landing day arrives 26 Nov 2018 - 08:45 pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: A NASA spacecraft's six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would...