Google tried and failed to play the social media game. But that's not necessarily a bad thing...
BARCELONA — It’s a large, bright open space, in which 80 people work, sitting behind brand new desks. The grey of the carpet is still pristine, the walls too white, impersonal. Except for a large ...
In far southern Argentina, writer Pablo Bizón recalls a chance encounter with a woman who ...
NEW DELHI — In an article in The Atlantic, Patrick Collison and Michael Nielsen express their concerns about the perceived slowdown of scientific progress. With “more scientists, more funding for ...
Ethical concerns about last week's CRISPR breakthrough in China are valid. But they can evolv...
A visionary engineer and his two-person company have a plan to pave the country's roads with ...
Critics worry that by partnering with Palantir, a Silicon Valley company with ties to the CIA, po...
PARIS — What if the GAFA quartet (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple) also became giants in the healthcare sector? Google first tried to put on the white coat more than a decade ago. After "Google ...
Engineers in Antioquia decided to cross-reference data on solar radiation and cloud cover to enco...
Unlike countries like the US or even China, India doesn’t have a national repository to sto...
Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists gathered in Gangtok, India earlier this month for an unlikely me...
Algorithms can certainly speed things up. But are they an appropriate tool processing residency a...
-Analysis- CARACAS — Artificial Intelligence is opening up new opportunities for the economy and society. But it will also affect millions of human jobs, and thus poses a huge challenge for ...
BEIJING — A video is making the rounds across China's internet. On a bus in the western city of Xi'an, an elderly man is seen shouting at a pregnant woman that she should give up her seat. "I am ...
The project "The Ocean Cleanup" wants to use its system to rid the oceans from plastic waste. The...
Scientists from the University of Magdalena in Colombia discovered six new species of tardigrades...
Wind power has its drawbacks, especially in central German region of Hesse, where developers want...
Education and experience certainly play a role in how well an individual understands other people...
The U.S. web giant may be planning a return to China. But would web users there actually embrace ...
There's a potentially sinister side to the crush of data we unwittingly feed into systems lik...
China's efforts to maintain control over citizens now include implementing volunteer "stabili...
-Analysis- MUNICH — As far as industrial strategies and international competition are concerned, there’s no greater contrast than that between Europe's resignation and China's iron ...
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