Category: Tech
China is overtaking US in artificial intelligence: researchers
China is poised to overtake the United States in artificial intelligence with a surge in academic research on the key technology, an analysis published Wednesday showed....
Wireless headphones, Airpods ‘pose cancer risk’, scientists warn
NEW YORK: A group of 250 experts have signed a petition to the United Nations and World Health Organisation (WHO) expressing ‘serious concern’ about the risks of...
Will artificial intelligence be the future of music?
They may never be able to fill a stadium for a rock concert, but computers are making inroads in the music industry, capable of producing songs — and convincingly...
Pakistan’s ‘friendly neighbour’ is switching to create artificial rain, here’s why
Amid growing climate changes affecting jeopardizing human lives and the world weather, China and South Korea in a joint project, have planned to create their own...
Robo-journalism gains traction in shifting media landscape
A text-generating “bot” nicknamed Tobi produced nearly 40,000 news stories about the results of the November 2018 elections in Switzerland for the media...
Chimps’ cultural diversity threatened by humans, study says
Like humans, chimpanzees are culturally diverse but those differences are being eroded by human incursion, international researchers say in a groundbreaking study...
NASA captures unprecedented images of supersonic shockwaves
NASA has captured unprecedented photos of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft, part of its research into developing planes that can fly faster...
Propaganda 2.0: Chinese Communist Party’s message gets tech upgrade
BEIJING: In a bright red office in south Beijing, some of China’s most studious Communist Party members are gathered around their smartphones. The focus of their...
SpaceX launches capsule capable of putting astronauts into orbit
WASHINGTON: A SpaceX rocket with a newly designed unmanned crew capsule blasted off on Saturday for the International Space Station, in a key milestone for Elon Musk’s...
Facebook sues over sales of fake accounts, likes and followers
CALIFORNIA: Facebook Inc said on Friday that it filed a lawsuit along with Instagram in U.S. federal court against four companies and three people based in the...