Nokia changes iconic logo to signal strategy shift

Reuters 02/26/2023

BARCELONA — Nokia announced plans on Sunday to change its brand identity for the first time in nearly 60 years, complete with a new logo, as the telecom equipment maker focuses on aggressive growth. The new logo…

UN says AI poses ‘serious risk’ for human rights

Agence France Presse 02/18/2023

GENEVA, Switzerland — The United Nations rights chief on Saturday warned that recent advances in artificial intelligence or AI posed a grave threat to human rights and called for safeguards to prevent violations. This week, more than…

US unveils high-tech B-21 stealth bomber

Agence France Presse 12/03/2022

PALMDALE, United States — The United States on Friday unveiled the B-21 Raider, a high-tech stealth bomber that can carry nuclear and conventional weapons and is designed to be able to fly without a crew on board.…

NASA gears up to deflect asteroid, in key test of planetary defense

Agence France Presse 09/23/2022

WASHINGTON — Bet the dinosaurs wish they’d thought of this. NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test…

Tired of text scams? Here’s what to do

John Eric Mendoza - Reporter / @JEMendozaINQ 09/18/2022

MANILA, Philippines — Many Filipino phone users have complained about receiving text scams that contain fake job offers, sham lucky winners, and other money-making schemes — sometimes even with the user’s name on them. Despite the prevalence…

‘It felt like Star Wars’: hoverbike makes U.S. debut

Reuters 09/16/2022

  A hoverbike that the Japanese manufacturers plan to launch in the United States next year made its U.S. debut at the Detroit Auto Show on Thursday, drawing perhaps inevitable comparisons to the speeder bikes of “Star…

Tinder lets users run background checks before dates

Agence France Presse 03/10/2022

WASHINGTON – Dating app Tinder will give US users a way to check if potential dates have been convicted of a violent crime, a check that experts warn has limitations. The app’s parent firm, Match Group, announced…

Facebook to be called Meta in line with its ‘metaverse’ vision

Reuters 10/29/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Facebook Inc is now called Meta, the company said Thursday, in a rebrand that is anchored on its ambitions of building the “metaverse,” a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the…

South Korean designer creates ‘Third Eye’ for ‘smartphone zombies’

Reuters 06/04/2021

SEOUL — A South Korean industrial designer has come up with a satirical solution for “smartphone zombies” who can’t take their eyes away from their screen long enough to stop themselves walking into a wall or other…

‘Something we’ve never seen’ – Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

Reuters 02/20/2021

LOS ANGELES  – NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the picture-perfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance, including a selfie of the six-wheeled vehicle dangling just above the surface of the Red Planet moments…

Black Mirror? Microsoft eyes bringing dead people back as chat bots

Ian Biong - @IBiongINQ 01/16/2021

American tech giant Microsoft is planning to “resurrect” our dead loved ones – in a sense – as chat bots, akin to that of a concept from the British science fiction anthology “Black Mirror.” The patent for “creating a…

WATCH: NASA shares top images of Earth from 2020

Niña V. Guno - @NGunoINQ 01/10/2021

From outer space, Earth looked majestic as ever amid the life-changing and unprecedented events that took place in 2020. Astronauts have been snapping away from the International Space Station (ISS), and NASA has compiled 20 of its…

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