Hyundai to invest $35 billion in future automotive tech
SEOUL: Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday that it plans to invest 41 trillion won ($34.65 billion) in mobility technology and strategic investments...
Facebook chief hosts conservative guests amid bias debate
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday confirmed reports that he had hosted a series of dinners with right-wing figures, as the social...
Yandex releases rival to China’s TikTok app
MOSCOW: Russian internet firm Yandex on Monday released a short video app for fashion and style that it hopes will compete with China’s...
Libra currency faces support test after Mastercard and Visa withdrawal
LONDON: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency faces a pivotal meeting of backers on Monday, days after the would-be digital coin project suffered a severe blow...
Facebook’s efforts to establish Libra currency suffers severe setback
Facebook Inc’s ambitious efforts to establish a global digital currency called Libra suffered severe setbacks on Friday, as major payment companies including Mastercard...
Online streaming giants battle for Asian audiences
BUSAN, South Korea: Acclaimed director David Michod’s epic “The King” was one of four major Netflix productions screened at Asia’s largest film festival...
Facebook researchers use maths for better translations
PARIS: Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new...
Amazon calls for government regulation of facial recognition tech
WASHINGTON: Amazon is endorsing the idea of government regulation of facial recognition technology, as part of a wide-ranging statement of its principles on...
First man to perform spacewalk dies
Alexei Leonov, a legendary Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to perform a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged...
Astronomers spot 20 more moons orbiting the Saturn
WASHINGTON: Saturn is now being recognized as the “moon king” of our solar system, with astronomers spotting 20 more of them orbiting the...