(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States legislators have subpoenaed top tech executives for documents and communications as part of a Republican bid to show collusion between Silicon Valley and Washington to suppress the free speech of conservatives.
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee, led by Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, wrote to the chief executives of Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft today (Wednesday) demanding documents, including any White House communications related to the regulation of content,...
(BBC News) The U.S. has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
It was downed by Air Force and National Guard pilots on Sunday, Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin said.
"Great work by all who carried out this mission," she wrote on Twitter.
Washington has been on high alert since its military destroyed a suspected Chinese spy balloon on February 4.
U.S. fighter...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has denounced “enemies” for sparking unrest in the country and the region during a ceremony to mark the 44th anniversary of the 1979 revolution that birthed the Islamic republic.
In a televised speech to crowds at the Azadi (Freedom) Square in Tehran today (Saturday), the president remained defiant in the face of criticism by the West, specifically the United States, on the establishment’s response to protests that began...
(BBC News) U.S. President Joe Biden ordered a fighter jet to shoot down an unidentified "high-altitude object" off Alaska on Friday, the White House says.
Spokesman John Kirby said the unmanned object was "the size of a small car" and posed a "reasonable threat" to civilian aviation.
The object's purpose and origin were unclear, Kirby said.
It comes a week after the American military destroyed a Chinese balloon over U.S. territorial waters.
Speaking at the White House on...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Shares of Google’s parent company lost more than $100 billion in market value today (Wednesday) after its Bard chatbot advertisement showed inaccurate information and analysts said its AI search event lacked details on how it will answer Microsoft’s ChatGPT challenge.
Reuters was the first to point out the error in Google’s advertisement, which debuted Monday, about which satellite first took pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system. Shares of...
(BBC News) Scientists have come a step closer to making multi-tasking "quantum" computers far more powerful than today's most advanced supercomputers.
Quantum computers make use of the qualities of sub-atomic particles.
So-called quantum particles can be in two places at the same time and strangely connected even though they are millions of kilometres apart.
A Sussex University team has transferred quantum information between computer chips at record speeds and accuracy.
Computer scientists have been trying to make an...
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A rescue operation is under way across much of southern Turkey and northern Syria following a huge earthquake that has killed at least 3,500 people.
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck near Gaziantep in the early hours of Monday while people were asleep.
A 7.5-magnitude tremor then hit at around 13:30 local time (10:30 GMT), which officials said was "not an aftershock"
The country's disaster agency says more than 2,300 people were killed in...
(AFP) Jurors on Friday cleared Elon Musk of liability for investors’ losses in a fraud trial over his 2018 tweets claiming that he had funding in place to take Tesla private.
The tweets sent the Tesla share price on a rollercoaster ride, and Musk was sued by shareholders who said the tycoon acted recklessly in an effort to squeeze investors who had bet against the company.
Jurors deliberated for barely two hours before returning to the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s supreme leader has pardoned or allowed a reduction in jail sentences for “tens of thousands” of prisoners, including some arrested in recent anti-government protests.
The pardons approved today (Sunday) by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came with conditions, according to details announced in state media reports, which said the move would not apply to any of the numerous dual nationals held in Iran.
Those accused of “corruption on earth” – a capital charge...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States military has shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had been flying across the U.S. for several days.
“We successfully took it down, and I want to compliment our aviators who did it,” President Joe Biden said today (Saturday).
Fighter jets shot down the balloon shortly after the U.S. government ordered a halt to flights around the South Carolina coast due to what it said at the time was...
