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LAS VEGAS: An attendee wears a pair of augmented reality glasses at the Rokid booth during the CES in Las Vegas on January 9, 2025. -- AFP

Smart glasses enter new era with sleeker designs, lower prices

LAS VEGAS: Producers of hi-tech connected eyewear are multiplying their innovations with increasingly discreet models in an attempt to make a difference in a highly competitive—and fast-emerging—...
This undated handout image courtesy of Firefly Aerospace shows the fully assembled Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander vehicle. --- AFP

US company Firefly Aerospace to launch for Moon next week

PARIS: A logo of US company's Meta is displayed during the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on May 22, 2024. - AFP

Meta announces ending fact-checking program in the US

NEW YORK: People stand inside the Microsoft store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. — AFP

Microsoft announces $3 billion AI investment in India

This photograph shows a USB-C plug reflected on the Apple logo in Brest, western France. - AFP

EU universal charger rules come into force

This handout illustration obtained July 6, 2018 courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins APL shows an artist’s conception of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, the spacecraft that will fly through the Sun’s corona to trace how energy and heat move through the star’s atmosphere.—AFP

NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun

CALIFORNIA: A giant Google logo is seen at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. -- AFP

Japan watchdog accuses Google of antitrust violation

In this photo illustration taken on December 21, 2024, the mobile game "Balatro" is seen on an iPhone in Washington, DC.-- AFP

Secretive game developer codes hit ‘Balatro’ in Canadian prairie province

WASHINGTON: People trade Pokemon cards in Washington, DC. With more than 60 million downloads and nearly 180 million dollars (171 million euros) generated worldwide since the end of October 2024, the mobile game adaptation of Pokémon cards has enjoyed global success, not far from the records of its predecessor. - AFP

Pokemon is back with a hit new gaming app

This picture shows Nicolas Doucet, a Frenchman who heads the Japanese studio Team Asobi behind the video game “Astro Bot”, posing with a stuffed toy for upcoming game during an interview with AFP at the offices of Sony Interactive Entertainment in Tokyo. —AFP

‘Astro Bot’ wins highest award at Oscars of video games

In this photo illustration taken on December 21, 2024, the mobile game "Balatro" is seen on an iPhone in Washington, DC.-- AFP

Secretive game developer codes hit ‘Balatro’ in Canadian prairie province

There are no photos or videos of LocalThunk, an anonymous computer programmer who lives in the vast and desolate prairies of Canada’s Saskatchewan province, far from Silicon Valley. His poker-inspired video game “Balatro,” however, has proved ...
WASHINGTON: People trade Pokemon cards in Washington, DC. With more than 60 million downloads and nearly 180 million dollars (171 million euros) generated worldwide since the end of October 2024, the mobile game adaptation of Pokémon cards has enjoyed global success, not far from the records of its predecessor. - AFP

Pokemon is back with a hit new gaming app

PARIS: With over 60 million downloads and an estimated $180 million in revenue since late October, a new Pokemon mobile game app is enjoying worldwide success as the latest incarnation of the hit Nintendo-owned franchise. Released on October 30, Pok...
This picture shows Nicolas Doucet, a Frenchman who heads the Japanese studio Team Asobi behind the video game “Astro Bot”, posing with a stuffed toy for upcoming game during an interview with AFP at the offices of Sony Interactive Entertainment in Tokyo. —AFP

‘Astro Bot’ wins highest award at Oscars of video games

Video game “Astro Bot” -- a family-friendly sci-fi adventure -- was named 2024’s Game of the Year at the annual awards considered the Oscars of the digital entertainment industry. The platform game featuring the adventures of a small space rob...
CALIFORNIA: This undated image courtesy of Google shows the company’s new quantum computing chip ‘Willow’. Google on December 9, 2024, said the chip was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality. - AFP

Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough

SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing chip that it said was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality. A custom chip called “Willow” does in minutes what it would take leadin...
Visitors stand at the booth of the video game 'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' during the media day at the Gamescom video games trade fair in Cologne, western Germany.--AFP photod

Harrison Ford gets de-aged again for ‘Indiana Jones’ video game

Harrison Ford was de-aged last year for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” on the big screen, and video game makers are pulling the same trick for the whip-cracking hero’s latest outing on the small screen. “Let me tell you what you are...
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Britain's King Charles III (L) welcomes Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, during an audience at Buckingham Palace, in London, on October 25, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt / POOL / AFP)
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