-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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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