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PARIS: A guest plays Mariokart World of the new Nintendo Switch 2 video-game console system of Japanese video-game company Nintendo during the worldwide presentation at the Grand Palais in Paris on April 2, 2025. - AFP

Nintendo fans stoked for Switch 2 'mega launch'

TOKYO:  With shops planning midnight launch parties after a run on pre-orders, Nintendo releases the Switch 2 on Thursday, hoping to score record early sales for a games console. But the Japanese c...
The Artemis multi-mass accelerator mass spectrometry system (AMS) at the LMC14 Laboratory at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay southwest Paris.--AFP photos

Time machine: How carbon dating brings the past back to life

A handout artist's impression shows the K2-18b super-Earth, a hycean world, such as exoplanet K2-18b which astronomers say they have found the strongest yet “hints” of the life outside this solar system. --AFP

Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet

KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Dr Noura Al-Mashaan holds a high-level meeting on Thursday with Minister of State for Communications Affairs Omar Al-Omar and Google Cloud’s General Manager of Data Analytics Sales Specialists.- KUNA

Kuwait Google Cloud explore AI and data analytics partnership

MOUNTAIN VIEW: Signs for the conference are plastered around Shoreline Amphitheater during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. -- AFP

OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent

TAIPEI: Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduces the DGX Station Personal AI Supercomputer as he delivers the first keynote speech of Computex 2025 at the Taipei Music Center in Taipei on May 19, 2025. -- AFP

Nvidia unveils plan for Taiwan’s first ‘AI supercomputer’

File photos shows visitors walk at the booth of 'Lego Fortnite', an open world survival video game, developed and published by Epic Games in association with The Lego Group.--AFP

‘Fortnite’ unavailable on Apple devices worldwide

TOULOUSE: Screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models and the logo of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.-- AFP

OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft for new funding

People watch the launch of a Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China on April 24, 2025. --AFP

Chinese rocket blasts off to its space station

This hanodut picture courtesy of NASA shows the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 72 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard.--AFP photos

NASA’s oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday

TOULOUSE: Screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models and the logo of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.-- AFP

OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft for new funding

WASHINGTON: OpenAI and Microsoft are rewriting the terms of their multibillion-dollar partnership in a high-stakes negotiation designed to allow the ChatGPT maker to launch a future IPO, while protecting the software giant’s access to cutting-edge...
People watch the launch of a Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China on April 24, 2025. --AFP

Chinese rocket blasts off to its space station

JIUQUAN, China: A Chinese rocket carrying three astronauts to the country’s space station blasted off from its remote launch site Thursday, the latest milestone in Beijing’s race to become a leading celestial power. Beijing has pumped billions o...
This hanodut picture courtesy of NASA shows the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 72 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard.--AFP photos

NASA’s oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday

Cake , gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday. But NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-m...
DAVOS: This photograph taken on January 19, 2025, shows a sign of US technology company Google displayed during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. - AFP

Google facing £5 billion UK lawsuit over ad searches

LONDON: Google on Wednesday said it would 'vigorously' defend itself after some 250,000 UK businesses filed a multi-billion-pound legal claim against the US tech giant for allegedly overcharging for online advertising. Law firm Geradin Par...
PRIS: 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 could be forced to break off Instagram, WhatsApp in antitrust trial

WASHINGTON: Social media juggernaut Meta stands trial on Monday facing serious US government allegations that it abused its market power to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp before they could become competitors. By moving forward, the trial in a Washin...
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