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Leaders agree global plan to boost green technology

More than 40 world leaders say they will work together to turbo-charge the uptake of clean technologies by imposing worldwide standards and policies. The announcement will be made at the climate summit COP26 in Glasgow on Tuesday. Five high-carbon sectors will be ta

Tesla opens its chargers to other electric cars

Tesla is opening up its charging networks to other electric cars for the first time. The company has more than 25,000 "supercharger" locations, making it the largest charging network in the world. Its pilot scheme will start with 10 locations in the Netherlands as par

Amazon’s Project Kuiper hopes to launch first two prototype satellites in late 2022

The company wants to launch them on a new rocket from ABL Space Systems Amazon’s ambitious satellite-internet project, Project Kuiper, aims to launch its first two prototype satellites in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to an experimental launch license the company filed with the Federa

Start-up launches £495,000 hoverbike in Japan

A Japanese start-up is hoping to convince motorists to swap their cars for a $680,000 (£495,000) hoverbike. ALI Technologies' XTurismo Limited Edition went on sale in Japan, earlier on Wednesday. Electronics giant Mitsubishi and footballer Keisuke Honda are two backers of t

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, the flagship reinvented

Some news on the upcoming flagship NVIDIA graphics card.  We received some initial specs of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3090 Ti SKU that have been shared with board partners recently. According to the information, the card is not called RTX 3090 SUPER, but RTX 3090 Ti. It not only features more core

UAE robocop gets official police badge; here is what it will do

Detective Robotok began working on October 3 after three years of training. Umm Al Quwain has a new officer in town — Detective Robotok, a robotic police officer that investigates crimes against children. Coinciding with the opening of Expo 2020 Dubai, the project was launched by t

Bowing to investors, Microsoft will make its devices easier to fix

In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the company has committed to increasing access to spare parts and repair documents. In a first-of-its-kind victory for the right-to-repair movement, Microsoft has agreed to take concrete steps to facilitate the independent repair of its devices following

The Ampere Altra Max Review: Pushing it to 128 Cores per Socket

It’s been a little over a year since Ampere started to deliver their first generation Altra processors. The “Quicksilver” design with 80 Neoverse N1 cores was the first merchant Arm silicon on the market who really went “all-out” in terms of performance targets, aiming for the best of what AMD and I

Twitch confirms massive data breach

Game-streaming platform Twitch has been the victim of a leak, reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings. More than 100GB of data was posted online on Wednesday. The documents appear to show Twitch's top streamers each made millions of dol

Samsung’s next-gen Exynos chip with an AMD GPU will support ray tracing

While we’re still a few months away from Samsung’s next flagship smartphone lineup, leaks about the phones have already started popping up online. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen leaked renders of all three devices in the upcoming Galaxy S22 series and learned quite a bit about their specificati

Facebook weakens democracy, says ex-employee

Today's testimony by whistleblower Frances Haugen will likely keep Facebook in the hot seat for a while.   Here's a recap of what happened today: Haugen said Facebook routinely prioritises its profits and growth over the safety of its users. When it comes to oversight and accounta

Will implement changes in NEET-Super Speciality exams from next year: Centre to SC

New Delhi(PTI): The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that in the interest of students, it has decided to implement changes in the pattern of the NEET-Super Speciality examination from academic year 2022-23. A bench of justices D Y Chandrachud, Vikram Nath and B V Nagarathna recorded the

Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. The company says the cause was a faulty configuration change. All three services are owned by Facebook and could not be accessed

Intel's Loihi 2 speeds effort to make neuromorphic chips like human brains

The chip also is a key product in Intel's plan to reclaim its processor manufacturing prowess. Intel's Loihi 2 neuromorphic chip measures 30 square millimeters. Intel unveiled its Loihi 2 chip on Thursday, the second generation of a processor family that marries conventional electronics wi

Amazon announces Astro the home robot

Amazon is launching Astro, its first household robot, powered by its Alexa smart home technology. The company said it can be remote-controlled when not at home, to check on pets, people, or home security. It can also patrol a home automatically and send owners a notification if

Ford announces $11.4bn investment in electric vehicle plants

Ford has announced a major investment in electric vehicle (EV) production in the US, promising to build its biggest ever factory in Tennessee, and two battery parks in Kentucky. Under the $11.4bn (£8.3bn) plan, the carmaker said it will build zero-emission cars and pickups "at

Here are the new and upcoming camera features of the Google Pixel 6 Pro

For many consumers, the camera is the most important piece of hardware in a smartphone. It’s no surprise, then, that Google made the camera the marquee feature of the Pixel. While Pixel phones have never featured top-of-the-line camera hardware, Google’s image processing pipeline and Google Camera a

EU rules to force USB-C chargers for all phones

Manufacturers will be forced to create a universal charging solution for phones and small electronic devices, under a new rule proposed by the European Commission (EC). The aim is to reduce waste by encouraging consumers to re-use existing chargers when buying a new device. All