President, Nikos Christodoulides is to hold a meeting on Monday with UN secretary general personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin. The meeting will take place at 10.30 am at the Presidential Palace. Holguin is to also have a meeting on Monday with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, at 12 noon. This...
A fire fighters’ rescue team responded to the scene of a collision in Larnaca after the 19-year-old driver of a vehicle deviated from his course as and hit the road railings becoming trapped, shortly before 10pm on Sunday. Firefighters extricated the young man using hydraulic rescue equipment and handed the...
Google Deepmind has unveiled the third major version of its “AlphaFold” artificial intelligence model, designed to help scientists design drugs and target diseases more effectively. In 2020, the company made a significant advance in molecular biology by using AI to successfully predict the behaviour of microscopic proteins. With the latest...
Monday will start off cloudy with isolated showers and possible thunderstorms in the eastern half of the island. The weather front will move southeast and affect most of the island. Afternoon clouds will bring rains and possible storms in the mountains, and in the south, east and interior. Temperatures will...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Turkey on Monday for talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan aimed at maintaining the positive momentum achieved in bilateral ties in recent months despite lingering problems between the neighbours. Turkey and Greece, NATO allies and historic foes, have long been at odds over...
Meta Platforms (META.O), the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said that it was expanding its suite of generative AI ads products to offer tools that can automatically create variations of images and overlay text atop them. The tool will launch in test form without the watermarks the social media...
By Anthony King A green industrial future for Europe may depend on an element that is part of a household staple: table salt. Dr John Abou-Rjeily, a researcher at Tiamat Energy in France, is using sodium to develop rechargeable batteries. Sodium is a part of sodium chloride, an ionic compound...
Global private equity investors and asset managers are readying for billions of dollars worth of M&A and investments linked to data centres in Asia Pacific, as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom fuels demand for digital infrastructure. The intense pace of deals in the world’s most populous region comes as countries...
Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok will have to “tame” their algorithms to filter out or downgrade harmful material to help protect children under recently published proposed British measures. The plan by regulator Ofcom is one of more than 40 practical steps tech companies will need to implement...
