After a week in the wild, the consensus is in: Apple's new "spacial computing" headset, the Vision Pro, is impressive, expensive, and ludicrous to wear in public.

The world's first major regulation on artificial intelligence should almost be done and dusted – but France is causing trouble. FRANCE 24's Tech Editor Peter O'Brien tells us more.

Fantasy role-playing video game "Baldur's Gate 3" has won Game of the Year at the Game Awards in Los Angeles – the Oscars of gaming – after three and a half hours of speeches, prizes, announcements and adverts. The awards themselves were mostly a hurried afterthought as almost five million viewers of the Game Awards' official stream were subjected to a bombardment of trailers.

Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, says a leaked French government memo risked undermining public trust in cybersecurity protocols, after it was revealed that Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne had ordered cabinet members and their staff to delete popular messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp. 

The tech sector in Africa is expected to have another year of growth in 2023, despite a turndown in venture capital investment worldwide. There are big opportunities in connectivity – mobile internet, fibre, satellite, subsea cables – thanks in part to Africa’s growing population. FRANCE 24’s Technology Editor Peter O’Brien reports from the 2023 Africa Tech Festival in Cape town.  

You may not have heard of it, but the social movement called "effective altruism" continues to influence public discourse around artificial intelligence, despite the fall from grace of the movement's highest-profile figure and one of its biggest donors: disgraced "crypto king" Sam Bankman-Fried. We take a closer look in this edition of Tech 24.

Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel was a shocking breach of Israeli defence technology, which is among the world's most renowned. But things weren’t exactly easy before the war. Investment in Israeli startups plunged amid a global tech sector turndown and domestic political turmoil. Many young tech industry workers have now been drafted. In this week's Tech 24, we take a look at how the Israeli tech sector is responding ahead of an anticipated ground invasion of Gaza.

The European Commission has opened an investigation into X, Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The move comes after Brussels ordered X, as well as rivals Meta and TikTok, to act quickly to tackle the spread of disinformation, which has surged on each of these platforms since Hamas's deadly attack on Israel.

It’s already proving a very busy September for artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, with tech billionaires meeting US lawmakers, the EU wrangling over a landmark law and the UK concerned that AI might end life as we know it.

Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has made waves this summer, enjoying millions of signups and raising $115 million, while other crypto startups struggle. But it's come under intense regulatory scrutiny, not least in France and Germany, over privacy concerns. We take a closer look in this edition of Tech 24.

It's the starting gun for the busiest time of the year in tech: IFA Berlin. Europe's largest tech trade show has kicked off, with more folding phones and robot lawnmowers than anyone could possibly need. With the "smart home" facing privacy and interoperability concerns and the smartphone industry dogged by falling sales, can we still get excited by new gizmos? FRANCE 24's Technology Editor Peter O'Brien went to Berlin to find out.

The world's top neurotechnology companies can keep indefinite possession of the data generated by the brains of their trial subjects and customers, and even share it with third parties, according to upcoming research. FRANCE 24's Tech Editor Peter O'Brien tells us more.

Google Search and Google News will block local media in Canada, in a drastic response to a new law. The Online News Act, passed last week and due to come into effect by the end of the year, intends to force big tech platforms to cut deals with Canadian news outlets, essentially making them pay to use snippets of content. But internet giants Google and Meta don't want to pay and will pull local media from their sites instead, in a decision that could have consequences for Canadian journalists....

The world learnt a lot about the perils of deep-sea exploration this week, as we slowly discovered the fate of those on board the OceanGate Titan submersible. But we've also learnt things about the use – or misuse – of technology for such high-risk missions, as FRANCE 24's Technology Editor Peter O'Brien explains.

Elon Musk, the eccentric and controversial CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of Twitter met with French President Emmanuel Macron this Friday. He then attended the VivaTech trade fair in Paris, giving a conference in front of 4,000 tech enthusiasts. Artificial intelligence was at the heart of this year's edition, along with the development of deep tech. FRANCE 24's Julia Sieger tells us more.

The European Union's Internal Market commissioner Thierry Breton has called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to take "immediate action" or face heavy fines after a report this week revealed Instagram to be the worst social network for child sexual abuse material.

In a big gamble for the world’s most valuable company, Apple is widely expected to launch its first major new product in almost a decade at its annual developers' conference next week: a virtual reality headset.

Nintendo has once again put playfulness at heart of gaming with the release of "Tears of the Kingdom", the latest instalment in its beloved Zelda franchise, to rapturous critical acclaim.

Brazil's landmark fake news law hit a hurdle this week when a vote in parliament was postponed. If it's eventually passed, online life will change for more than 160 million Brazilians who use social media, and potentially for internet users around the world. But Big Tech is putting up a fight, as our Technology Editor Peter O'Brien explains. We also get insight from our Rio de Janeiro correspondent Constance Malleret.

With the largest and most powerful rocket the world has ever seen tumbling out of control through the sky before exploding, it would be easy to point to SpaceX's highly anticipated Starship launch on Thursday as a failure. In fact, this cosy relationship with risk is one major reason why SpaceX is head and shoulders ahead of its competition, as our Technology Editor Peter O'Brien explains.

A Washington Post interview with a friend of Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old US Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking a trove of highly sensitive documents, has brought to light the nature of their group on Discord, a online messaging platform. It's far from the first time a gaming forum has been the source of a military leak. Technology Editor Peter O'Brien takes us back over some other famous examples of leaks and explains why they're the perfect environment for such breaches.

The Europol law enforcement agency has told FRANCE 24 that the "whole infrastructure" of popular cybercrime website Genesis Market has been taken down by an international police consortium, after claims it was still active on the dark web. We take a closer look in this edition of Tech 24.

The authors of an open letter advocating a "pause" in the development of advanced artificial intelligence have urged researchers to back their call, after coming under fire for alarmism. In this edition of Tech 24, we speak to Mark Brakel from the Future of Life Institute think tank, which penned the open letter.

French legislators on Thursday passed a bill to power up police surveillance using artificial intelligence. The move comes ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics, which will see millions descend on the French capital. The law will allow authorities to use software to identify potential threats such as dangerous crowd movements and abandoned bags. It forbids the use of biometric identification such as facial recognition, but activists argue it nevertheless opens the floodgates to potentially...

This week was possibly the biggest yet for artificial intelligence, with rival announcements from American and Chinese tech giants, as well as the release of OpenAI's new large language model, GPT-4. Our Technology Editor Peter O'Brien talks us through some of what AI can now do, like looking into your fridge and telling you what to cook, and where some fear it might end up, like having humanity sacrificed to make paperclips.