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Story highlights Africa will launch its first private satellite into space It’s been built by schoolgirls CNN  —  They may be teenagers, but 17-year-old Brittany Bull and 16-year-old Sesam Mngqengqiswa have grand ambitions – to launch Africa’s first private satellite into space in 2019. They are part of a team of high school girls from…

Apple unveils mixed reality headset Why Apple’s new mixed reality headset is making a splash 04:33 Apple’s Vision Pro headsets, first announced last June, will be available in the U.S. early next month, the company said Monday.  Customers can pre-order the headsets beginning Friday, January 19, for pick delivery or pick up on February 2. …

The leader of a Silicon Valley-backed proposal to create a new city on a massive plot of barren California farmland insisted the project’s billionaire backers are “not at all” worried about the public outrage the secretive project has provoked. A group of elite tech investors including Marc Andreesen, Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs, have…

President Bukele is celebrating as his $120m Bitcoin reserve is finally in the black – but economists are not.

Thanks to powerful new generative artificial intelligence tools, it’s getting difficult to tell if your favorite artist is actually singing — or in a great many cases, rapping — on tracks floating around YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. In February, superstar DJ David Guetta posted a video clip of himself live in concert, playing a song…

GovernmentTechnology 20 November 2023, 2:44 pm 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that France, Germany and Italy have reached an agreement on how artificial intelligence should be regulated.   Market Impact Germany’s Economy Ministry, which is in charge of the topic together with the Ministry of Digital Affairs, said laws and state control should not regulate AI…