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 discriminatory and privacy-harming automated surveillance.

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.

Germany is the latest in a slew of governments to ban TikTok from officials' devices over security fears. But the highly addictive video scroller remains incredibly successful in Western countries, along with several other Chinese apps. It's more evidence that China has edged into top spot when it comes to innovation, as our Technology Editor Peter O'Brien explains.