Machines replacing us humans: Depending on where you stand (and where you work!), this may sound like a dream or a nightmare. Societies have long been fascinated by the idea of handing over ...
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 ...
The Quimper-Léon diocese in Britanny just installed electronic terminals to collect donati...
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 ...
Two and a half centuries after his birth, the famed German explorer and scientist is still rememb...
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. ...
Elon Musk's company has asked Washington to intervene about its top European competitor receiving...
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 ...
PARIS — Are there pictures? Nowadays, in almost every criminal inquiry, this is the first thing judges and prosecutors ask. "We can't work without these tools," says Elisabeth Sellos-Cartel, ...
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 ...
Outside of Naples, researchers have turned land polluted by illegally-dumped chemicals into a liv...
Dubbed "the International," a young Egyptian computer programmer had built a program to scrape us...
Voice messages are unilateral and time-consuming: this is bad communication innovation.
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