2+ hour, 59+ min ago  (600+ words) The new tier is being tested in "a few countries worldwide," a spokesperson said, without providing further details. According to TechCrunch, they include Japan, Mexico and the Philippines, with subscription prices hovering around $2 per month. Meta launched ad-free, paid versions…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1778+ words) China's "popular DeepSeek artificial intelligence chatbot suffered on Monday its longest outage since the viral rise of its flagship R1 and V3 models early last year. DeepSeek's status website showed that the chatbot suffered a "major outage" lasting 7 hours and 13 minutes, from…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1704+ words) Japanese spacecraft startup ispace said "on Friday it will further delay a US government-sponsored lunar mission to 2030 and cut its global workforce, in a strategic shift after two failed lunar landings. The announcement highlights the murky outlook for the venture,…...

5+ day, 32+ min ago  (731+ words) South Korea's industry ministry on Tuesday said the Financial Services Commission's advisory board approved a 250 billion won ($166 million) investment in a local artificial intelligence chip startup called Rebellions, part of a government-backed push to nurture a homegrown advanced semiconductor firm....

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1703+ words) Scientists in Geneva are taking some antiprotons out for a spin " a very delicate one " in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive. Then, they'll ease it into a truck, and take about a half-hour drive to test how " if…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1735+ words) Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave genetic mutations that accumulate over the generations and ultimately become fatal. The research contradicted the notion that clones are…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (987+ words) Alibaba on Tuesday revealed its next-generation XuanTie C950 5-nanometer processor at an internal conference, the company said in a blog post, as the Chinese tech giant gears up for the shift towards agentic AI. The 3.2 GHz server chip, built using open-source…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1667+ words) Astronomers have identified 45 planets that could be the best places to search for alien life. Scientists have found more than 6,000 exoplanets, or worlds outside of our own solar system. But many of them are inhospitable to any kind of life,…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1355+ words) Pakistan was ranked the world's smoggiest "country in 2025, with concentrations of hazardous small particles known as PM2.5 up to 13 times higher than the recommended World Health Organization level, research showed on Tuesday. Swiss air quality monitoring firm IQAir said in its…...

1+ week, 35+ min ago  (1355+ words) Rescue teams in northern Germany are working to refloat a humpback whale stranded in shallow water in the Baltic Sea. Experts gathered Tuesday morning on the Timmendorfer Strand beach to find a way to pull the 10-meter-long (30-feet-long) mammal off…...