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Laboratories could be creating life from scratch by the end of the century, according to Swiss Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz. “In my opinion it is only a matter of time before we succeed,” he said.

A new Swiss instrument has been installed as part of the European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile. Among other things, it will help to search for traces of life on distant planets.

Some 37% of Swiss now use payment methods such as a smartphone or a smart watch – up from 25% just two years ago.

Unnoticed by animals, robots from Switzerland have been filming crocodiles and lizards in Uganda. A new version of these robots has now been adapted for use in disaster response. The new robot was presented on Wednesday evening in the journal Science Robotics.

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) has equipped itself with a new-generation magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, assisted by artificial intelligence. It will be tested by a dozen research teams.

A unique solar reactor promises to overcome the high costs and transport difficulties involved in developing green hydrogen. The first pilot plant will go into operation in Switzerland in February 2024, but the innovation is also attracting interest abroad.

Hackers have published large amounts of data from the Swiss city of Baden on the darknet, it has been confirmed.

The Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich want to position Switzerland as a leading global centre for artificial intelligence (AI). With this aim in mind, they launched an initiative called "Swiss AI" on Monday.

The discovery of a new planet challenges theoretical models of planet formation. The planet is far too big for its star, according to a new study by an international research team with Swiss participation.

On October 30, Meta announced it would begin offering people in the EU, the European Economic Area, and Switzerland a choice between paying a subscription fee to opt out of any personalized advertising or consenting to ad targeting to continue accessing Facebook and Instagram for free.

Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and Wageningen University in the Netherlands have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that recognises plastic objects floating on the water in satellite images. This could make it possible to eliminate this waste using ships.

Researchers in Switzerland have developed a technique that uses a robot to trigger auditory hallucinations in healthy people. They want to investigate the causes of this common problem among people with psychiatric illnesses in order to develop possible treatments

The software company Concevis has been the victim of a cyber attack. Once again, federal government data is involved. The cybercriminals are threatening to publish the data on the darknet.

A mass spectrometer designed at the University of Bern will be used for chemical analysis of moon rocks.

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Neuroscientists from Lausanne and France presented a neuroprosthetic on Monday that corrects the mobility disorders associated with Parkinson's disease. Once confined to his home, the first patient to receive the implant is now able to walk confidently and without falling.

No human-like robot is able to outperform humans in a range of tasks but robots are catching up, according to a new study by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich.

No planes took off from Kloten Airport, in Zurich, for around two hours on Monday afternoon. The reason was a technical malfunction. Landings were always possible.

Oct 30 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Monday it will offer users in Europe a subscription plan to use Facebook and Instagram without advertisements to comply with the European Union regulations.

Last week, privacy advocate (and very occasional Reg columnist) Alexander Hanff filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) decrying YouTube's deployment of JavaScript code to detect the use of ad blocking extensions by website visitors.

You might have heard about quantum computers, a futuristic kind of computer that can perform certain operations far faster than today’s machines. You might have also heard that quantum computers will soon break encryption and expose everyone’s data.

Swiss train manufacturer Stadler Rail has won an order from the American state of California for the delivery of four hydrogen trains.

Swiss train manufacturer Stadler Rail has won an order from the American state of California for the delivery of four hydrogen trains.

Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips.

Out with the old: Microsoft's decision to phase out VBScript marks the end of an era.

Cryptographic protocol helps secure the open source software ecosystem with zero-trust passwordless authentication.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has warned around 6,800 current and former employees that their personal data was accessed via a data breach, according to a letter seen by Bleeping Computer. The nature of the personal information stolen by hackers was redacted, but the company stated that a file transfer app called MOVEit was the source of the breach. It's the second report of an attack on Sony's operations within the last two weeks.

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Preparations for a massive new particle smasher near Geneva are picking up speed. But the European-led project, which hopes to answer some of the biggest questions in physics, faces many obstacles, including competition from China.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

Inspired by the suction cups on octopus tentacles, Zurich researchers have developed a patch for delivering medicines. The patch is stuck to the inside of the cheek and enables the delivery of medicines that would otherwise require a syringe.

From 0 to 100km/h in 0.956 seconds: an electric racing car built by students from the federal technology institute ETH Zurich and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences has broken the world acceleration record.

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A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website's source code.