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TomTom cuts 300 jobs

The firm said it was realigning its organization as it embraces AI.

Aldar nets $953m in sales at Fahid

Aldar said 42 percent of the buyers are under the age of 45.

Qualcomm to Alphawave for $2.4 bn

The deal makes Alphawave the latest tech company to depart London.

Equinor signs $27 bn gas deal

The 10-year contract was signed with Centrica.

ADNOC Drilling secures $1.15bn contract

The contract for two jack-up rigs begins in the second quarter.

Experts seek to legitimize AI mental health care

Researchers at Dartmouth College believe artificial intelligence can deliver reliable psychotherapy, distinguishing their work from the unproven and sometimes dubious...
  • Their application, Therabot, addresses the critical shortage of mental health professionals.
  • The Dartmouth team recently published a clinical study demonstrating Therabot's effectiveness in helping people with anxiety, depression and eating disorders.

AI companions present risks for young users, US watchdog warns

New York, United States -- AI companions powered by generative artificial intelligence present real risks and should be banned for...
  • The watchdog, Common Sense, tested several of these platforms, namely Nomi, Character AI, and Replika, to assess their responses.
  • While some specific cases "show promise," they are not safe for kids, concluded the organization, which makes recommendations on children's use of technological content.

‘Something new for the honey market’: Austria trials DNA testing to uncover fraud

Voels, Austria -- At a laboratory in Austria's mountainous Tyrol province, scientists are DNA testing about 100 honey samples a...
  • With fake honey flooding markets, and only a few European laboratories running such analysis, the small Austrian company Sinsoma began offering the tests two years ago.
  • Between 2021 and 2022, 46 percent of the honey tested under an EU investigation as it entered the bloc was flagged as potentially adulterated, up from 14% in the 2015-17 period.

Humanoid robots stride into the future with world’s first half-marathon

At the crack of the starter's gun, and as a Chinese pop song "I Believe" blared out from loudspeakers on...
  • The 21-kilometre (13-mile) event held in the Chinese capital's E-Town is billed as a groundbreaking effort to test the limits of bipedal robots in real-world conditions

Research on multiple sclerosis wins ‘Oscars of science’

Stephen Hauser and Alberto Ascherio were recognized for their decades researching the debilitating neurodegenerative disease, which affects nearly three million...
  • Scientists knew the disease, which damages the central nervous system and leads to paralyzing cognitive and motor problems, was caused by the immune system turning on the body.
  • But they thought the white blood cells known as T cells were the lone culprit. Hauser questioned that.

‘I don’t have a voice in my head’: Life with no inner monologue

Paris, France - Mel May only realised she was different while reading a news article one day. "Wait, what? Some...
  • The idea of not being able to have inner monologue is so new that a clinical name, anendophasia, was only proposed for it in a paper last year
  • The inner monologue has proven extremely difficult to study because it relies on people being able to describe how they think

World’s tiniest pacemaker is smaller than grain of rice

Paris, France -- Scientists said Wednesday they have developed the world's tiniest pacemaker, a temporary heartbeat regulator smaller than a...
  • While still years away from being tested in humans, the wireless pacemaker was hailed as a "transformative breakthrough" that could spur advances in other areas of medicine.
  • Millions of people across the world have permanent pacemakers, which stimulate hearts with electrical pulses to ensure they beat normally.

First orbital rocket launched from Europe crashes seconds after blast-off

Oslo, Norway -- The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, in a closely watched...
  • Isar Aerospace, which had said it did not expect to reach orbit with the launch, said the two-stage rocket fell into the sea, adding that "the launch pad seems to be intact".
  • The 28-metre (92-foot) tall, two-meter diameter rocket has a one-ton carrying capacity, but was unloaded for the test flight.

‘Dark universe detective’ telescope releases first data

Paris, France - Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark...
  • The telescope launched in 2023, aiming to chart one third of the sky, encompassing 1.5 billion galaxies
  • The huge amount of data - which was accompanied by 27 scientific papers - still only covers less then 0.5 percent of the sky

Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO2 for first time

The gas giants are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how...
  • The HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth, is only 30 million years old -- just a baby compared to our solar system's 4.6 billion years.
  • A US-led team of researchers used Webb to directly detect carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of all four of the system's known planets, according to the study.

James Webb Telescope captures first direct image of exoplanet TWA 7b

The telescope, which can see farther into the universe than anything before it, has turbocharged the search for planets beyond...

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‘Something new for the honey market’: Austria trials DNA testing to uncover fraud

Voels, Austria -- At a laboratory in Austria's mountainous Tyrol province, scientists are DNA testing about 100 honey samples a...

Humanoid robots stride into the future with world’s first half-marathon

At the crack of the starter's gun, and as a Chinese pop song "I Believe" blared out from loudspeakers on...

Research on multiple sclerosis wins ‘Oscars of science’

Stephen Hauser and Alberto Ascherio were recognized for their decades researching the debilitating neurodegenerative disease, which affects nearly three million...

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World’s tiniest pacemaker is smaller than grain of rice

Paris, France -- Scientists said Wednesday they have developed the world's tiniest pacemaker, a temporary heartbeat regulator smaller than a...
  • While still years away from being tested in humans, the wireless pacemaker was hailed as a "transformative breakthrough" that could spur advances in other areas of medicine.
  • Millions of people across the world have permanent pacemakers, which stimulate hearts with electrical pulses to ensure they beat normally.

First orbital rocket launched from Europe crashes seconds after blast-off

Oslo, Norway -- The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, in a closely watched...
  • Isar Aerospace, which had said it did not expect to reach orbit with the launch, said the two-stage rocket fell into the sea, adding that "the launch pad seems to be intact".
  • The 28-metre (92-foot) tall, two-meter diameter rocket has a one-ton carrying capacity, but was unloaded for the test flight.

‘Dark universe detective’ telescope releases first data

Paris, France - Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark...
  • The telescope launched in 2023, aiming to chart one third of the sky, encompassing 1.5 billion galaxies
  • The huge amount of data - which was accompanied by 27 scientific papers - still only covers less then 0.5 percent of the sky