4 Black Friday tech deals we don’t expect to last till tomorrow
It’s hard to believe that Black Friday is almost over when there are still so many amazing deals going on right now. We know that retailers like Amazon, Best Buy,…
Are mobile phones altering our brains?
By Amanda RuggeriFeatures correspondent Getty Images Our daily smartphone habits bring many benefits in our lives, but they also have some drawbacks in terms of how they are rewiring our…
Thirty million join Meta’s Twitter rival Threads, Zuckerberg says
By Chris Vallance & James ClaytonTechnology reporters, BBC News BBC Thirty million users have signed up for Meta’s newly launched Threads app on its first day, the company’s chief Mark…
OpenAI averts internal crisis with return of CEO Sam Altman | Technology News
The AI research firm is restoring Altman as CEO after his sacking last week threatened a mass exodus from the company. The co-founder of a leading US artificial intelligence firm…
‘Made in India’: As mobile phone sector logs meteoric growth, Ashwini Vaishnav reveals numbers
Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnav, took to social media platform X to announce achievement in the mobile phone industry. In a post, he revealed that the Indian…
BBC Breakfast to relaunch children’s writing competition
By Paul GlynnEntertainment reporter BBC Presenter Jon Kay said BBC Breakfast was “delighted to be championing 500 Words” The children’s writing competition 500 Words is to be relaunched by BBC…
Microbial miners take on rare-earth metals
A sample of lanthanum (iii) nitrate under the microscope.Credit: Christian Wei/Zoonar/Alamy The fermented drink kombucha seems about as far away as possible from the mining of heavy metals. But Alexa…
Opinion: Cellphones have taken over our schools, and it’s been a disaster for our kids
Naomi Buck is a Toronto-based writer. This week, in a time-honoured tradition, kids across Canada will pack up lunches and pencil cases and, with some combination of trepidation and excitement,…
The OpenAI Drama Has a Clear Winner: The Capitalists
What happened at OpenAI over the past five days could be described in many ways: A juicy boardroom drama, a tug of war over one of America’s biggest start-ups, a…
RCMP phone tracking continues despite privacy concerns
Open this photo in gallery: Members of the RCMP Gang Enforcement Team speak to the occupants of a car during a stop in Surrey, B.C., on May 31, 2019. Between…