Category: Technology

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is teaming up with Telegram to integrate its Grok chatbot into the messaging platform, Reuters reported. As part of the deal, xAI will pay Telegram $300 million in a combination of cash and stock, targeting the app’s user base of over one billion to strengthen its position in the fast-growing AI sector. According to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, the one-year agreement also includes a revenue-sharing component: Telegram will receive 50% of all subscription sales generated through the app. Durov emphasised that xAI will only access data that…

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BEIJING: China has taken another big step in its space journey by launching the Tianwen-2 probe. The spacecraft will travel to a nearby asteroid to collect rock samples and bring them back to Earth. This is the country’s first mission to an asteroid, and it shows China’s growing plans for space exploration. The launch is part of China’s long-term goal to become a major space power. Beijing has ploughed billions of pounds into its space programme in recent years in an effort to achieve what President Xi Jinping describes as…

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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND: SpaceX´s prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk´s dream of colonising Mars. The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off around 6:36pm (2336GMT) from the company´s Starbase facility, near a southern Texas village that earlier this month voted to become a city — also named Starbase. Excitement ran high among SpaceX engineers and spectators alike, after the last two outings ended with the upper stage disintegrating in fiery cascades…

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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND: Elon Musk’s huge SpaceX rocket, called Starship, launched from the Texas coast on Tuesday. It was the latest test of the powerful rocket, which is part of Musk’s plan to send people to the Moon and Mars one day. Spectators gathered to watch the dramatic liftoff, hoping this flight would go better than the last two, which ended in explosions. The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built launched around 6:36 pm (2336 GMT) from the company’s Starbase facility near a southern Texas village that recently…

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After a large-scale global data leak exposed 184 million account credentials, the National Cyber Emergency Response Team (NCERT) has urged citizens to change their social media passwords. In an advisory issued on Monday, the body said that the breach exposed usernames, passwords, emails, and associated URLs tied to services from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, as well as government portals, banking institutions, and healthcare platforms worldwide. The leaked database is believed to have been compiled using infostealer malware — malicious software that extracts sensitive information from compromised systems. This…

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After a large-scale global data leak exposed 184 million account credentials, the National Cyber Emergency Response Team (NCERT) has urged citizens to change their social media passwords. In an advisory issued on Monday, the body said that the breach exposed usernames, passwords, emails, and associated URLs tied to services from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, as well as government portals, banking institutions, and healthcare platforms worldwide. The leaked database is believed to have been compiled using infostealer malware — malicious software that extracts sensitive information from compromised systems. This…

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A new WhatsApp feature, chat media hub, is under development to allow mobile and web users to manage all files — including shared images, videos, GIFs, documents, and link across every chat — to simply content browsing and storage management. It is expected to be available for the user with the launch of next update. The new update is designed to introduce a specific and dedicated section where group chat members can easily browse all recent media shared across their groups. The feature aims to display all media files in…

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WASHINGTON: Elon Musk has said that he will start sleeping in his offices again with “super-focus” on the work after a major outage hit his social media platform, X. The commitment from the billionaire comes following the site went down for two hours on Saturday. Musk admitted it showed that important changes are needed. He now plans to focus more on fixing problems and running his companies. The billionaire has an extraordinarily full plate as owner/CEO of X, xAI (developer of the AI-powered chatbot Grok), electric-car maker Tesla and rocket…

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A mass outage has hit Elon Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter), disrupting services in multiple countries, including Pakistan, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) confirmed on Saturday. “This disruption follows a similar global outage faced by the platform on Thursday, May 22, which lasted for several hours before being resolved by the platform itself, the authority said in a statement.. “The PTA’s investigation into the matter has confirmed that there are no technical issues at Pakistan’s internet gateways. All other internet services across the country remain fully functional, the PTA added.…

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SpaceX has set a target date for its upcoming Starship megarocket flight in the hopes that this time will be different after two unsuccessful launches earlier this year. Starship Flight 9, is set to depart SpaceX’s Starbase test site near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas at 7:30pm EDT (2330GMT) on Tuesday, May 27 at the latest, reported Space.com. This is the first attempt to reuse the massive Super Heavy booster, the first stage of Starship, but it will also be the ninth test flight of the massive SpaceX rocket, as its…

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