Tiangong -- meaning "heavenly palace" -- is the latest achievement in China's drive to become a major space power, after landing a rover on Mars and sending probes to the Moon.

The latest find adds to the riddle surrounding Homo naledi -- a species of Stone Age hominids discovered less than a decade ago in a region called the Cradle of Humankind, named after the stunning fossils unearthed there.

While the Earth faces no such immediate danger, NASA plans to crash a spacecraft traveling at a speed of 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kph) into an asteroid next year in a test of "planetary defense."

The digital asset launched on October 21 using imagery from the Squid Game series without the permission of Netflix.

Popular chat platform WhatsApp announced that the app would not be available for phones with older operating systems starting on Nov. 1.

Wolbachia is a common bacteria that occurs naturally in 60 percent of insect species, including some mosquitoes, fruit flies, moths, dragonflies and butterflies. It is not, however, found in dengue-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, according to non-profit World Mosquito Program (WMP), which initiated the research.

Jokes and vitriol poured in after CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new corporate handle "Meta," with critics blasting it as a transparent effort to distract from its whistleblower crisis.

Apple said sales of its signature iPhone and iPad were held back due to supply constraints, while Amazon struggled to get products and enough workers to meet demand.

While critics pummelled Facebook over the change, claiming the rebranding aims to distract from the company's scandals, the internet still had a good laugh.

The new handle comes as the company battles to fend off one of its worst crises yet and pivot to its ambitions for the "metaverse," which would blur the lines between the physical world and the digital one.

The number of active users rose by 19 percent from a year ago to 381 million at the end of September, while paying subscribers -- Spotify's main source of revenue -- also rose by 19 percent to 172 million, the group said.

Three social media networks massively popular with the youngest users tried to convince US lawmakers they are safe as worry about Facebook's potential harms spills over to other platforms.

Google remains a centerpiece of online activity, with offerings such as its search engine, ad marketplace, and YouTube video platform that give it extensive global influence.

Haugen, who earlier this year shared a trove of internal documents alleging Facebook knew its products were harming children's mental health, argued the platform was "unquestionably" fueling hate.

The social media giant has been battling a fresh crisis since former employee Frances Haugen leaked reams of internal studies showing executives knew of their sites' potential for harm, prompting a renewed US push for regulation.

Grab, Emtek and Bukalapak have joined hands to launch an extensive accelerator program dubbed Kolaborasi Nyata Untuk Masa Depan (Tangible Collaboration for the Future), or Kota Masa Dapan, targeting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) across the country.

South Korea launched its first domestically developed space rocket on Thursday but failed to put its dummy payload into orbit.

The report from website The Verge, which Facebook refused to confirm, said the embattled company was aiming to show its ambition to be more than a social media site.

The name change will be announced next week, The Verge reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

The instrument was designed by Charles Gould for the firm Cary around 1825 and is one of six surviving microscopes associated with the British naturalist, according to auction house Christie's.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice in Silicon Valley hype around the idea of the metaverse, which would blur the lines between the physical world and the digital one.

Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan's steppe at 0436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by the Russian space agency. 

The US-based company will replace LinkedIn in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features, according to senior vice president of engineering Mohak Shroff.

Britain's Prince William blasted space tourism on Thursday, saying more attention should be paid to problems closer to home ahead of the COP26 climate summit.

With veteran actor William Shatner of Star Trek becoming the latest celebrity to go into space Wednesday, we look at the recent rush of amateur astronauts.

Anti-Semitism is being disseminated to a younger generation of social media users through platforms like Instagram and TikTok, according to analysis.

The Canadian -- who will forever be known to the sci-fi show's legion of "Trekkies" as Captain James Tiberius Kirk -- will launch from the company's West Texas base at 9 am (1400 GMT), after a day's delay due to high winds.

The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500-metre (1,600-foot) deep, 40 kilometre (25 mile) wide crater.

Four such trains will join the northern city's S-Bahn rapid urban rail network and start carrying passengers from December, using the existing rail infrastructure.

The dogs, and their masters, potentially lived alongside giant animals, researchers say.