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The airline industry certainly has room for improvement, but dreaming of a rail-only future ignor...
People in Asia already trust robots enough to let them take care of their loved ones and deliver the evening news. Meanwhile, a hitchhiking robot's world tour successfully passed through Germany, ...
Blockchain may be the technical solution, as companies, international institutions and NGOs long ...
Love them or hate them, electric scooters are changing the very ways we think about mobility and ...
The self/other theory of immunology rests on the xenophobic assumption that 'others' are always d...
It is telling that parents in Silicon Valley, who would know, are restricting and even banning screen time for their children. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has just released a new set ...
Researchers in France have come up with a small but uber-adaptable prototype that could soon chan...
CAIRO — Two years after Egypt joined other nations as a signatory of the 2016 Paris Agreement, many questions remain over what the Egyptian government is planning to do in order to adapt to ...
PARIS — The so-called millennium bug, or Y2K, was the first time many began to understand the full potential of malfunctioning software to do harm. Of course, the predicted December 31, 1999 ...
Monday marks the debut of the third stage of Energy Observer's revolutionary six-year journey toward a cleaner, hydrogen-fueled future. After four months of updating its equipment and ...
The news that a patient in London was recently cured of HIV is remarkable. But the media buzz is ...
Digital assistants like Google Home are marketed to everyone. But for disabled people, in particu...
Pigeonly is one of several applications that were designed by ex-cons and are transforming the wa...
Part of our fear around AI comes from its misleading moniker. It's a momentous innovation, sure. ...
AI, Big Data and blockchain are some of the expensive tools that are necessary for precision farm...
The era of driverless cars is dawning. But are we really ready to just let our vehicles take over?
With its abundance of sunshine and adequate wind, Egypt is well suited to embrace green-energy al...
MUNICH — Do machines replace humans? Since the beginning of industrialization 200 years ago, we earthlings have been plagued by this fear. From the early uprisings of the weavers to the 1970s ...
Researchers are sending remote-controlled aircraft into residential neighborhoods to figure out j...
The digital behemoths Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon have long sold dreamy ideals. In reality...
-OpEd- PARIS — When Amazon realized that its AI recruiting tool favored men, the company quickly shelved it. Back in 2016, a chatbot released by Microsoft turned into a sex-obsessed ...
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