Twitter has posted a job listing for Web engineers to build a new subscription-based platform, sending its shares surging on Wednesday.

Tesla is “very close” to achieving level-5 autonomous driving technology, CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input.

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The spectre of load shedding, which has been kept in abeyance since the Covid-19 lockdown began in late March, has reared its ugly head again after several power-generation units tripped.

Nvidia’s market valuation briefly topped Intel’s for the first time ever, powered by soaring demand for graphics chips in data centres and other fast-growing technology fields.

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Alphabet began offering the world’s first commercial high-speed Internet using balloons to villagers in remote regions of Kenya’s Rift Valley on Wednesday.

But pressure from the US has continued to grow and European governments and carriers have found themselves having to choose sides between two world powers.