-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 ...
French experts doubt that a machine can help you find your soulmate better than trusting the eter...
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 ...
Our political leaders are woefully inefficient and too often dishonest. So maybe we should let ma...
BEIJING — The exhibition was called “Secret,” and opened in the Wuhan Art Museum in April. And what was in the show? The personal information of the 346,000 citizens of the central Chinese city of ...
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 ...
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 ...
MOSCOW — On April 13, a Russian court decreed an immediate blocking of the app Telegram across the country. The decision came after the refusal of Telegram to provide Russian security services ...
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...
The digital revolution is shifting how societies are structured, and may lead to greater public o...
Smartphones have upended communication and consumption, leaving retailers to transform themselves...
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 ...
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 ...
Upstarts no longer, the so-called BAT companies — Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent — are a ...
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...
Information gleaned from digital sources must be used in strict accordance with the law. But it&#...
FOREST CITY — It was slow at the thrift shop, and manager Stephanie Henderson, 38, was looking at her laptop, trying to discover all that Facebook had collected on her: the posts, the memes, the ...
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