French Competition Authority says tech giant fails to respect commitments and negotiate in ‘good faith’ with publishers. France’s competition watchdog has fined Google 250 million euros ($272m) for breaching commitments to media companies on content licensing. The French Competition Authority said on Wednesday that it was imposing the fine as…
China’s week-long meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC), which gathered some 3,000 delegates from the political, business and cultural elite in Beijing, has closed without the customary press conference by the country’s premier. The annual meeting of the country’s parliament began on March 4 at the Great Hall of…
America’s founding fathers depicted as Black women and Ancient Greek warriors as Asian women and men – this was the world reimagined by Google’s generative AI tool, Gemini, in late February. The launch of the new image generation feature sent social media platforms into a flurry of intrigue and confusion….
In 1950, Roald Dahl wrote a short story titled Poison. The tale, set in colonial India and often found in deckle-edged children’s anthologies, tells a riveting story about racism. In the story, a striped snake called a common krait slithers on the stomach of one of the main characters. The…
Doha, Qatar – Under blocks of flashing lights, entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders converged in central Doha on Monday as Web Summit, one of the world’s biggest tech conferences, opened in Qatar’s capital. The event, held in the Middle East for the first time, brings together participants from dozens of countries…
On Tuesday, the first case of measles in seven years was reported in Northern Ireland. Outbreaks of measles have sprung up in parts of Britain in recent months amid concerns of what Dr Vanessa Saliba from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), has called a “worryingly low MMR [measles, mumps…
NASA, the main sponsor with experiments on board, hopes to jumpstart lunar economy ahead of astronaut missions. A lunar lander has taken off for the moon in a bid to make the first United States landing since the Apollo missions more than half a century ago and the first achieved…
Naivasha, Kenya – Caroline Njau comes from a family of farmers who tend to fields of maize, wheat, and potatoes in the hilly terrain near Nyahururu, 180 kilometres (112 miles) north of the capital Nairobi. But Njau has chosen a different path in life. These days, the 30-year-old lives in…
NewsFeed A group of deep-sea explorers say they may have located the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane that went missing over the Pacific Ocean nine decades ago. They hope to prove their sonar image is the key to a mystery that has puzzled aviation experts and adventurers for decades. Published…
The satellites will be used to test communication and geopositioning technology, as well as the efficacy of delivering cargoes to space, Iran said. Iran has successfully launched three satellites for the first time using its carrier rocket developed by the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics, state media reported,…
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