Week in tech: How a Nasa spacecraft altered an asteroid’s shape

A recap of what made news in the world of science and technology this week. Google fined $272 million in news copyright issue French regulators said on 20 March that tech giant Google was being fined $272 million for breaching commitments on paying media companies for reproducing their content online and using their material for its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini without informing them. But the agency said on Wednesday that it was imposing a fresh fine on Google for “failing to respect commitments made in 2022” and not negotiating in “good faith” with news publishers, the report said. Nasa spacecraft altered asteroid's shape In 2022, US space agency Nasa launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft to test if it could deflect an asteroid off its path. UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change indicators The World Meteorological Organization, a specialised agency of the United Nations whose mandate covers weather, climate and water resources, revealed in a report on 19 March that climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023.