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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has launched its first electric vehicle (EV) and will begin taking orders. The company’s chief executive Lei Jun said the Speed Ultra 7 (SU7) would be priced at 215,900 yuan ($29,900; £23,600). The move sees the technology giant taking on EV rivals including Tesla and BYD.…

Musk said the first person to receive a Neuralink brain-chip implant is recovering. A year after being cleared for the test, billionaire Elon Musk’s Neuralink has implanted its wireless brain chip in a human for the first time.Musk announced that the patient received the implant on Sunday and “is recovering…

The rover’s payloads are turned off and data it collected has been transmitted to Earth, India’s space agency says. India’s moon rover has been switched off after completing its walk on the lunar surface two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole, the country’s space agency has said. The…

The blocking feature will be removed for users of X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk has announced, claiming the feature “makes no sense”. The X boss said users will still be able to block people from directly messaging them, however. But many people on social media said it will make it…

Property giant Evergrande has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US as the real estate crisis in China deepens. It will allow the heavily-indebted company to protect its assets in the US as it works on a multi-billion dollar deal with creditors. Evergrande defaulted on its huge debts in 2021,…

Google says people should use its search engine to check whether information provided by its chatbot, Bard, is actually accurate. Some have suggested chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT could “kill” traditional search, which is dominated by Google. But users have found the information they provide can be wrong or even entirely…

For more than a century the scramble for oil unleashed wars, forced unusual alliances and sparked diplomatic rows. Now the world’s two biggest economies are battling over another precious resource: semiconductors, the chips that literally power our daily life. These tiny fragments of silicon are at the heart of a…

Critics say the text to image system pose a threat to the livelihoods of human artists. A game designer has sparked controversy after his artificial-intelligence-generated art piece won the top spot at a competition in the United States with critics calling the win a threat to human artists everywhere. Jason M Allen,…

Army SOS, an activist-led NGO, converts Android-based tablets into smart units with automated precision guidance. Kyiv, Ukraine – Years before Russia invaded Ukraine, Oleksiy Savchenko helped develop one of the most lethal and inexpensive weapons now used by thousands of Ukrainian service members. In 2014, he was among the protesters whose…

For a full-size option or to inquire about posters, please visit Pablo Carlos Budassi’s website. A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Observable Universe Among the scientific community, it’s widely believed that so far humans have only discovered about 5% of the universe. Yet, despite knowing about just a fraction of what’s out there, we’ve…