Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa has stopped working, and users have reported after red error lights have been showing up. Amazon does not currently have a service status update page, and so users have been left in confusion about what is going on and whether it is just their device that is playing up or whether is it a wider issue. […]

Benjamin Humphrey is pleased that his Sydney startup Dovetail is not quite worth $1 billion. A recent $US63 million ($87 million) round of capital raising valued the company, which makes a platform for analysing and collating research data, at just over $US700 million, or about $26 million Australian dollars short of the storied nine-figure number. “It’s intentional,” Humphrey says with […]

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Scientists may turn to X-rays instead of standard PCR tests to diagnose Covid-19 following a research breakthrough. A standard PCR test takes around two hours to return a result, but using X-rays coupled with a newly-developed artificial intelligence (AI) program – the result comes back in a couple of minutes. And it’s 98 per cent accurate. That’s according to experts […]

An Indian couple is all set to host the first wedding in the metaverse in the country with the ‘ghost’ of the late father of the bride in attendance. Dinesh Sivakumar Padmavathi, 24, and his fiancée Janaganandhini Ramaswamy, 23, are set to get married on February 6 in their village but will host a digital reception at a virtual venue […]

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Microsoft stunned the gaming industry when it announced this week it would buy game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, a deal that would immediately make it a larger video-game company than Nintendo. Microsoft, maker of the Xbox gaming system, said the deal would be good for gamers and advance its ambitions for the metaverse — a vision for creating […]

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The dream of a self-driving car sounds great on paper, but when an accident happens under the watch of an AI, who's to blame? It could very well be the driver, if a landmark legal case goes through. Prosecutors in California have filed two counts of 'vehicular manslaughter' against the driver of a Tesla car which plowed through a red […]

Serial texters will never miss another text notification with a simple but clever iPhone trick. Apple notifications can be easily missed, especially since many of us tend to have sound and vibration switched off. But there's a hidden feature in your iPhone settings that can solve the issue. The useful hack was shared by TikTok creator TechHackGuy, and involves making […]