Technology

Instagram Gives Up on Encryption: A Timeline and Analysis

The removal of end-to-end encryption from Instagram direct messages, set for May 8, 2026, is the culmination of a years-long saga of promises, delays, and growing pressure. Meta confirmed...

Google Has Removed Its AI Tool That Offered Amateur Health Advice From Forum Discussions

Google has confirmed the removal of an AI search feature that curated health recommendations from ordinary users sharing...

Microsoft Takes Unprecedented Stand for Anthropic, Warning Pentagon That AI Ethics Cannot Be Coerced

Microsoft has taken an unprecedented public stand for Anthropic, filing a court brief in a San Francisco federal...

Musk’s xAI Power Plant Approved: Mississippi Greenlights 41 Methane Turbines

In a controversial Tuesday morning session, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality approved 41 permanent gas turbines for...

OpenAI Navigates the AI Ethics Crisis That Ended Anthropic’s Pentagon Relationship

When the history of this period in artificial intelligence development is written, the week that OpenAI secured its...

Dubai AI Week 2025: Global Tech Titans Unite to Shape the Future of AI

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai is set to host the inaugural Dubai AI Week...

Tech trends 2022: Web 3.0, big tech battles

Following a year that saw WFH (work from home) and metaverse become household terms, a new wave of technological trends is on the horizon...

Metaverse, an online virtual world

The term "metaverse" was coined by author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash," where he depicted lifelike avatars interacting in...

MIT develops New Programming Language for High-Performance Computers

In the realm of computing, the demand for high performance is ever-increasing, particularly for tasks like image processing and deep learning applications on neural...