With facial recognition cameras and Big Data, the Chinese leadership is pushing its penchant for ...
Can a clone have a birthday? Well, let’s just say that Dolly the sheep was delivered 22 years ago on July 5 — the world’s first cloned mammal to see the light of day. The result of a successful ...
PARIS — Block construction, robotics and basic coding — all in one package, and especially designed for a non-tech-savvy public. That, in a nutshell, is the idea behind Mindstorms, which toymaker ...
Our political leaders are woefully inefficient and too often dishonest. So maybe we should let ma...
Computers that can perfectly mimic the human voice? Hyper sensitive surveillance cameras? Advance...
China Newsweek — June 4, 2018 Over the past decade, there have been countless reports about the boom in cosmetic surgery in Asian countries such as China, Japan and South Korea. Names have ...
Carnegie Airborne Observatory researchers map coral reefs in Caribbean to aid with post-hurricane...
PARIS — The address is not by chance. Courbet, a jewelry designer that sells synthetic diamonds, has decided to open at the world's most prestigious location for any jeweler: the Place Vendôme in ...
Researchers used visuals and scanning technology to gauge how people "feel" about the contenders ...
Internet giants have now started flirting with decentralization, to try and replace the so-far fa...
Climate change is a real and alarming problem. But there's another — and intimately rel...
The digital revolution is shifting how societies are structured, and may lead to greater public o...
MUNICH — Most investors just don't understand what it's all about — and so the scenario almost always plays out the same: Sophia Yen enters a room full of venture capitalists, almost all older ...
FANUC churns out 6,000 industrial robots per month, double that of its closest competitor. For a ...
A programmer in Turin decided to enter into a digitally-enhanced universe of his own creation &md...
SAN FRANCISCO — On Amazon, customer comments can help a product surge in popularity. The online retail giant says that more than 99 percent of its reviews are legitimate because they are written ...
GENEVA — One day last October, during the morning talk show on Swiss state broadcaster RTS, still groggy viewers were brutally awakened by a sentence dropped live on-air: “Schools train children ...
Latin American states, as major sea-trading nations that are also vulnerable to climate change, m...
The world has mostly embraced technological advances. But as fallout over the Facebook data-breac...
Information gleaned from digital sources must be used in strict accordance with the law. But it&#...
"Cow Fitbits" and artificial intelligence are coming to the dairy farm, but some farmers aren'...
Rest assured, computers aren't that smart. They lack common sense. Or so we assume: for if a ...
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