Located on Pachon Hill in the northern region of Coquimbo, the 8.4-meter (27-1/2-foot) telescope has a 3,200-megapixel camera feeding a powerful data processing system.

Gamers struggle to buy the new Switch 2 on launch day; research firms expect Switch 2 sales to pass 100 million units by 2030.

Top engineers at big tech companies receive an average yearly compensation of $281,000 in salary and $261,000 in equity, sources say.

Nvidia launched a new version of its NVLink tech called NVLink Fusion on Monday that it will sell to other chip designers to help build powerful custom AI systems with multiple chips linked together.

Interest has grown in recent years in launching carrier vehicles fuelled by methane, which is deemed less polluting, safer and cheaper than more commonly used hydrocarbon fuels and a suitable propellant in a reusable rocket.

Scientists said the aurora occurred on March 18, 2024, when super-energetic particles from the sun encountered the Martian atmosphere, precipitating a reaction that created a faint glow across the entire night sky.

With massive government backing and rapid AI advances, China pushes to automate factories and counter labour shortages.

Called LUPIN, the project is part of a programme by the European Space Agency to test new positioning, navigation and timing techniques as interest in lunar surface exploration picks up again

The deal, which would be OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date, would complement ChatGPT’s coding capabilities.

US budget outlines released on Friday called for phasing out NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion crew vehicle, which includes a key service module supplied by Europe’s Airbus on behalf of ESA.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) said late on Wednesday that the final component of the system - the central solenoid - had been completed and tested by the United States, and assembly was now underway.

Mission kicks off race to rival SpaceX’s massive Starlink network

Iran has in the past accused its arch-foe Israel of being behind cyber attacks.

South Korea’s privacy watchdog said Hangzhou DeepSeek AI Co Ltd failed to obtain user consent when transferring personal data to firms in China and the US during its January launch in South Korea.

The world’s second largest economy is aiming to become a major space power and land astronauts on the moon by 2030.

The crew members will conduct space science and application experiments, install a space debris protection device as well as extravehicular payload and equipment, and perform recovery tasks.

The winning robot was Tiangong Ultra, from the Beijing Innovation Center of Human Robotics, with a time of 2 hours and 40 minutes. The men’s winner of the race had a time of 1 hour and 2 minutes.

The effort comes after Chinese universities launched AI courses and widened enrolment after the DeepSeek startup drew global attention in January.

The export controls threaten Nvidia's business in China, one of its largest markets.

The attacks targeted information systems such as the Asian Winter Games registration system and stored “sensitive information about the identities of relevant personnel of the event,” Chinese state news agency Xinhua said.