Huawei’s AI phone tested by driving car at dog
Source: BBC News Huawei has turned one of its phones into a dog-collision avoidance system for cars as part of an unusual publicity campaign. The Chinese firm invited BBC’s Rory […]
iQiyi, the Netflix of China, is going public in the US
Source: CNN News By Sherisse Pham The Netflix of China is ready for Wall Street. Video streaming site iQiyi is getting ready for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the […]
Samsung Galaxy S9 focuses on the camera
Source: BBC News By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor Media captionWATCH: Spencer Kelly gets hands on with the Galaxy S9 New and improved camera capabilities are the main thrust of Samsung’s […]
This New Jet Design Would Get You From New York to China in 2 Hours
Source: Travel And Leisure By TALIA AVAKIAN FEBRUARY 23, 2018 A team of Chinese researchers has revealed a design for a hypersonic jet that they claim could transport passengers from China to New […]
Elon Musk quits AI ethics research group
Source: BBC News Technology billionaire Elon Musk has quit the board of the research group he co-founded to look into the ethics of artificial intelligence. In a blog post, OpenAI said […]
A.I. will be ‘billions of times’ smarter than humans and man needs to merge with it, expert says
Source: CNBC BY Arjun Kharpal A.I. will be ‘billions of times’ smarter than humans, says expert Artificial intelligence could be “billions of times smarter” than humans and people may need to […]
I Use My Phone While I Breastfeed. I’m Not a Bad Mother
Source: Time By ANYA KAMENETZ January 29, 2018 IDEAS Kamenetz is an education correspondent for NPR I often have my phone in my hand while breastfeeding my one-year-old daughter. This isn’t […]
How saving a writer’s life helped my dialysis app go global
Source: BBC News By Natasha Lipman When Javier Artigas began needing kidney dialysis and found himself jobless, he developed an app to make it easier for people to get treatment […]
Americans are slowly warming up to self-driving cars
Source: CNN by Matt McFarland The fear factor surrounding self-driving cars appears to be slowly receding. AAA released a study Wednesday showing that 63% of Americans are afraid of riding in […]
Apple investors urge action on ‘smartphone addiction’
Source: BBC News Big investors have called on Apple to develop software that limits how long children can use its smartphones. The call came from two investment groups that hold $2bn (£1.48bn) […]
The Real Problem With Apple Slowing Down Older iPhones
Source: Time By LISA EADICICCO December 22, 2017 If you’ve ever thought your old iPhone was feeling sluggish, you’re not alone. And you’re not imagining it: Apple has confirmed to multiple media outlets that it slows […]
Siri, should I believe in God?
Source: Chicago Tribune BY Timothy Carone Ask Siri whether you should believe in God and you’ll receive the reply, “I would ask that you address your spiritual questions to someone […]
Google Reviewed 2017 And It’s Enough To Make Us All Cry
Source: Huffington Post By Lee Moran 5.4k It’s been quite a year. And Google’s stirring review of 2017 will make you laugh, cry and experience pretty much every emotion in between: The […]
Google’s ‘superhuman’ DeepMind AI claims chess crown
Source: BBC News Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm’s […]
Honda has built four little robots to help humanity
Source: BBC News Honda has revealed four little robots that want to make people’s lives just that little bit better. And considering the 2017 we’ve had, this is welcome news. Especially […]
First-time internet users: Who they are and what they do when they get online
Source: Pew Research Center BY ANDREW PERRIN AND NICK BERTONI (Artur Debat/Getty Images) Decades after internet access became widely available, Pew Research Center surveys show […]
The wild week of Bitcoin
Source: BBC News By Bryan Lufkin 1 December 2017 This week has been a rollercoaster ride for Bitcoin – and could signal an equally unpredictable future. What happened this week? […]
At $180,000, Tesla’s Semi Could Be a Game-Changer for Trucking
Source: Time By David Z. Morris November 25, 2017 After its debut last week, we now have a price for Tesla’s all-electric freight truck. The company now says the Tesla Semi is expected to […]
Morocco goes digital to counter radical Islam online
Source: Religion News Service BY Tom Heneghan RABAT, Morocco (RNS) — Chababe is a lively site on Facebook, YouTube and the web where young Moroccans can talk about what troubles […]
Uber and Volvo strike deal for 24,000 self-drive cars
Source: BBC News By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionVolvo hopes to sell tens of thousands of vehicles to Uber under the deal Uber has struck a […]