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BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.

King Saud University wins US patent for firefighting robot

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Center of Smart Robotics Research at the College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud...

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NASA Features AlUla sky in ‘Astronomy Picture of the Day’

AlUla, Saudi Arabia -  AlUla Governorate achieved a new international milestone, showcasing the clarity of its skies, after a sky...

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NASA loses contact with its mini-helicopter on Mars

WASHINGTON, US - NASA has lost contact with its tiny helicopter Ingenuity during the hard-working craft's 72nd flight, the space agency...
  • In a post on X, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory added that Perseverance was temporarily "out of line-of-sight with Ingenuity.
  • NASA has lost contact with the helicopter before, including for an agonizing two months last year.
Arts & Culture

Japan literary laureate admits using ChatGPT for her novel

TOKYO, JAPAN - The winner of Japan's most prestigious literary award has acknowledged that about "five percent" of her futuristic novel...
  • The 33-year-old author of Tokyo-to Dojo-to openly admitted that AI heavily influenced her writing process as well.
  • Set in a futuristic Tokyo, the book revolves around a high-rise prison tower and its architect's intolerance of criminals.

Bad day in space: Moon mission fails and NASA program delayed

Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander blasted off Monday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, then successfully separated from its rocket....
  • NASA has paid Astrobotic more than $100 million to ship scientific hardware to the Moon to answer questions about surface composition and radiation
  • The failure doesn't mean the strategy of ramping up commercial partnerships is innately flawed, Michael Lembeck, a former NASA official turned associate professor said
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Private US lunar lander mission imperiled by technical snag

Washington, United States -- An historic private mission to land on the Moon was facing potential failure Monday due to...
  • Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander blasted off overnight from Florida's Cape Canaveral, then successfully separated from its launch vehicle around an hour later.
  • But teams at ground control found they were unable to point the unmanned spacecraft correctly at the sun.
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UAE announces its participation in Nasa’s Lunar Gateway Station

Abu Dhabi, UAE - The UAE has announced its participation in developing a module on Nasa’s Lunar Gateway Station alongside...
  • The UAE will be responsible for developing the lunar space station's Crew and Science Airlock, a critical component for maintaining a safe environment for astronauts
  • This unit will act as a portal of the station, serving as the entry and exit point for missions and astronauts travelling to the Moon’s surface from the Lunar Gateway Station
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India’s solar mission Aditya-L1 enters Sun’s orbit

New Delhi, India - India's solar observation mission on Saturday entered the Sun's orbit after a four-month journey, the latest success...
  • The Aditya-L1 mission was launched in September and is carrying an array of instruments to measure and observe the Sun's outermost layers.
  • The latest mission by the Indian Space Research Organization is the first by any Asian nation to be placed in orbit around the Sun.
Business

Invest Qatar launches azure open AI GPT-powered chatbot ‘Ai.SHA’

DOHA, QATAR - The Investment Promotion Agency Qatar (Invest Qatar) has partnered with Microsoft to develop Ai.SHA, an innovative AI-powered...
  • This initiative positions Invest Qatar as one of the first investment promotion agencies (IPA) in the world to adopt advanced technology.
  • This will pave the way for transformative changes in professional interactions between investors and businesses in Qatar.
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Saudi team discovers genetic disorder, names it Alfadhel syndrome

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - A team of Saudi researchers from King Abdullah Children's Specialist Hospital (KACSH) and King Abdullah International...
  • This disorder has been named Alfadhel Syndrome, after Professor Majid Alfadhel, the leader of the research team.
  • The syndrome has gained official recognition and listing in the OMIM database, operated by Johns Hopkins University.

SpaceX launches secretive US military spacecraft on research mission

The Pentagon has released little information about the space drone and its mission, which was initially scheduled for December 7,...
  • The rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:07 pm Eastern Time (0107 GMT Friday)
  • It is unclear where exactly the uncrewed and autonomously operating spacecraft is headed on its seventh mission
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Artists utilize technology against AI copycats

NEW YORK, US - Artists under siege by artificial intelligence (AI) that studies their work, then replicates their styles, have teamed...
  • Created in just four months, Glaze spun off technology used to disrupt facial recognition systems.
  • Glaze essentially outthinks AI models when it comes to how they train, tweaking pixels in ways indiscernible by human viewers

King Saud University wins US patent for firefighting robot

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Center of Smart Robotics Research at the College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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‘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