October 31, 2025 9:05 pm
Apple’s iPhone sales growth decelerated during its summertime quarter, but the trendsetting company still delivered financial results that exceeded analyst projections while continuing its efforts to catch up to its Big Tech peers in the artificial intelligence race. MORE..
China said Thursday it’s on track to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 as it introduced the next crew of astronauts who will head to its space station as part of the country’s ambitious plans to be a leader in space exploration. MORE..
Websites for Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft returned to service late on Wednesday after experiencing problems amid a global Microsoft outage. MORE..
Nvidia today (29) became the first publicly listed company to be valued at $5 trillion, driven by investor confidence in the growth of artificial intelligence. MORE..
Nvidia was on the verge of becoming the first company worth $5 trillion on Tuesday after the heavyweight chipmaker said it had $500 billion in bookings for its artificial intelligence processors and that it will build seven new supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy. MORE..
Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday (Oct 28), as the company pares expenses and compensates for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter. MORE..
Australia’s competition regulator on Monday sued Microsoft, accusing it of misleading millions of customers into paying higher prices for its Microsoft 365 software after bundling it with artificial intelligence tool Copilot. MORE..
Sri Lanka has emerged as one of South Asia’s most AI-exposed economies, with strong growth in artificial intelligence–related jobs but also mounting risks of job displacement, according to the World Bank’s South Asia Development Update: Jobs, AI, and Trade (October 2025). MORE..
US President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time for failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism. MORE..
Alibaba launched a new AI chatbot assistant service on Thursday, refreshing its push into a consumer-facing space that is dominated by ByteDance and Tencent. MORE..
Apple may have to allow rivals to operate their own app stores on iPhones in the UK, after a ruling from the competition regulator. MORE..
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered web browser to challenge competitors like Google, which operates Chrome, the most popular browser in the world. MORE..
Earth just got a new tag-along in space — a little asteroid named 2025 PN7. MORE..
Amazon said on Monday (Oct 20) that a cloud computing unit at its data centre in northern Virginia had largely contained fallout from a widespread internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web’s most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit. MORE..
Iraq has banned US user-generated videogame platform Roblox due to concerns over child abuse, the government said, joining other countries in cracking down on virtual worlds. MORE..
A major cloud computing service went offline early Monday, causing problems for thousands of websites and services including leading retailers, publishers and games. MORE..
Nvidia uveiled on Friday the first U.S.-made Blackwell wafer, produced at TSMC’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix, as demand for AI chips accelerates. MORE..
Chinese car maker BYD will make its largest recall yet of more than 115,000 Tang series and Yuan Pro vehicles produced between 2015 and 2022 due to design defects and battery-related safety risks, China’s market regulator said on Friday. MORE..
Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea later this month. MORE:
Shares of South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics rose as much as 2 per cent on Thursday to an all-time high on investor optimism surrounding the semiconductor industry. MORE..
Alphabet-owned YouTube said on Wednesday (Oct 15) that it has resolved an issue impacting video streaming services for several thousand users globally. MORE..
Apple unveiled a series of product updates on Wednesday, including a refreshed MacBook Pro, an iPad Pro and a second generation of the Vision Pro headset, as it embeds its latest M5 chip across devices aimed at creative professionals. MORE..
OpenAI announced plans on Tuesday to relax restrictions on its ChatGPT chatbot, including allowing erotic content for verified adult users as part of what the company calls a “treat adult users like adults” principle. MORE>.
Microsoft will cease customer support for its operating system Windows 10 on Oct. 14 and is encouraging users to upgrade to Windows 11. MORE..
Microsoft is ending support for its Windows 10 operating system, which means from Wednesday 14 October, these computers may be at risk. MORE..