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Bezos plans to charge $200,000 for a trip to space

Bezos plans to charge $200,000 for a trip to space

-- 2018-07-13 15:03:57

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company plans to charge passengers about $200,000 to $300,000 for its first trips into space next year, two people familiar with its plans told Reuters news agency. Potential...

Scientists find evidence of earliest human life in China

Scientists find evidence of earliest human life in China

-- 2018-07-12 19:31:56

Scientists say they've found the earliest known evidence of a human presence outside Africa. Stone tools discovered in China suggest primitive humans - or a close relative - were in the region as ear...

Apple charges ex-employee over ‘stealing driverless car secrets'

Apple charges ex-employee over ‘stealing driverless car secrets'

-- 2018-07-12 13:03:13

A former Apple employee has been accused of stealing the company's self-driving car secrets and trying to flee to China with them. Xiaolang Zhang worked on Apple's driverless car project but allegedl...

China launches new Beidou navigation satellite into orbit

China launches new Beidou navigation satellite into orbit

-- 2018-07-11 14:47:11

China sent a new Beidou navigation satellite into orbit on a Long March-3A rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in the southwestern Sichuan Province, at 4:58 am Tuesday. The satellite is...

WhatsApp launches ad campaign in India to fight fake news

WhatsApp launches ad campaign in India to fight fake news

-- 2018-07-10 14:33:57

Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging platform on Tuesday published advertisements in key Indian newspapers to tackle the spread of misinformation, its first such effort to combat a flurry of fake messa...

China's Didi, Germany's Continental merge to develop electric vehicles

China's Didi, Germany's Continental merge to develop electric vehicles

-- 2018-07-10 14:25:09

Chinese ride-sharing company Didi Chuxing said on Tuesday it signed an agreement with German automotive supplier Continental AG to jointly develop connected vehicles and design purpose-built electric...

Exoskeletons will guarantee superhuman powers

Exoskeletons will guarantee superhuman powers

-- 2018-07-08 15:47:21

Would you put on an exoskeleton that meant you could run for an entire day without getting tired? What about one that would allow you to stay on your feet longer at work? The technology to give peop...

93pc of people would trust orders from a robot at work

93pc of people would trust orders from a robot at work

FE Online Desk 2018-07-08 12:57:38

People are ready to take instructions from robots at work, according to a new study conducted by Oracle and Future Workplace, a research firm preparing leaders for disruptions in recruiting, developme...

Twitter suspends 70m accounts in two months

Twitter suspends 70m accounts in two months

-- 2018-07-07 12:33:42

Twitter Inc suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July, the Washington Post has reported. More than one million accounts were suspended a day in recen...

EU lawmakers reject tough line on copyright reform

EU lawmakers reject tough line on copyright reform

-- 2018-07-06 14:52:40

EU lawmakers have opted not to take a tough line on an EU copyright overhaul aimed at making Google, Facebook and other tech giants share revenues with publishers, broadcasters and artists after lobby...

‘Mass production’ of Baidu’s self-driving buses underway

‘Mass production’ of Baidu’s self-driving buses underway

-- 2018-07-05 14:25:45

One of China's biggest technology companies has declared it has begun mass production of a self-driving bus. Baidu made the announcement after building its 100th Apolong vehicle at its factory in the...

Indonesia bans Chinese video app Tik Tok

Indonesia bans Chinese video app Tik Tok

-- 2018-07-04 14:01:29

Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday they had banned Chinese video app Tik Tok for containing “pornography, inappropriate content and blasphemy”. The ban, which went into effect on Tu...

Oracle empowers customers to embrace cloud innovation

Oracle empowers customers to embrace cloud innovation

FE Online Desk 2018-07-03 14:16:32

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) on Tuesday unveiled a free digital learning platform designed to help customers quickly and easily take advantage of the continuous innovation within Oracle Cloud Applications. De...

Lyft enters bike-sharing business with Motivate deal

Lyft enters bike-sharing business with Motivate deal

-- 2018-07-03 13:53:33

Lyft Inc said on Monday it would buy bike-share operator Motivate as the ride-hailing company tries to fend off competition arising from rival Uber Technologies Inc’s purchase of electric cycle-...

HTC to slash 1,500 jobs in Taiwan

HTC to slash 1,500 jobs in Taiwan

-- 2018-07-02 17:23:32

Smartphone maker HTC plans to slash around a quarter of its global workforce through job cuts at its manufacturing unit in Taiwan. The electronics company is planning the job cuts in a bid to better...

AI to control fake news in Mexico election

AI to control fake news in Mexico election

-- 2018-07-01 13:56:49

An AI-powered search tool is being used to monitor fake news and polling station problems in Mexico's elections. Krzana is being used by the Verificado 2018 initiative which was set up by Mexican med...

Apple rebuilds mapping app

Apple rebuilds mapping app

-- 2018-07-01 13:28:06

Apple Inc is rebuilding the widely used mapping application on its iPhones from the ground up with its own dataset, but Amsterdam-based TomTom NV will continue to be a data provider for Apple’s...

Portuguese tech firm making smartphone using cork

Portuguese tech firm making smartphone using cork

-- 2018-06-30 14:55:42

A Portuguese tech firm is uncorking an Android smartphone whose case is made from cork, a natural and renewable material native to the Iberian country. The Ikimobile phone is one of the first to use...

AI robot Sophia loses parts on way to Ethiopia

AI robot Sophia loses parts on way to Ethiopia

-- 2018-06-29 20:31:42

Sophia, the famous artificial intelligence (AI) humanoid robot, has arrived in Ethiopia – but without some of her body parts. A bag containing some of the robot was lost at Frankfurt airport, w...

Saturn moon a step closer to hosting life

Saturn moon a step closer to hosting life

-- 2018-06-29 17:22:10

Scientists have found complex carbon-based molecules in the waters of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Compounds like this have only previously been found on Earth, and in some meteorites. They are thought...

Robot on its way to help astronauts in space

Robot on its way to help astronauts in space

-- 2018-06-29 15:16:13

A science fiction-inspired robot hardwired to assist astronauts will launch from Florida early Friday morning to become the first personal, artificial intelligence-powered companion in space. The C...

Twitter, Facebook roll out ad transparency tools

Twitter, Facebook roll out ad transparency tools

-- 2018-06-29 14:36:39

Twitter Inc renowned online news and social networking service on Thursday made it easier for users to identify political campaign ads and know who paid for them, as social media platforms faced the t...

World's biggest battery factory opens up in China

World's biggest battery factory opens up in China

-- 2018-06-28 15:39:46

Chinese electric carmaker BYD Co Ltd has opened a new lithium battery plant in the northwestern province of Qinghai, which will be the world’s biggest when construction is fully completed next y...

Japanese spacecraft reaches destination in space

Japanese spacecraft reaches destination in space

-- 2018-06-27 16:31:40

A Japanese spacecraft has arrived at its target - an asteroid shaped like a diamond or, according to some, a spinning top. Hayabusa 2 has been travelling toward the space rock Ryugu since launching f...

Facebook eases ban on cryptocurrency ads

Facebook eases ban on cryptocurrency ads

-- 2018-06-27 14:06:48

Facebook has decided to allow certain ads promoting cryptocurrency and related content from pre-approved advertisers, official said in an official blog post. The social media on Tuesday decided to al...

Adobe claims to identify faked images using AI

Adobe claims to identify faked images using AI

-- 2018-06-26 17:30:19

The company behind the photo-editing program Photoshop says it has developed a tool that can detect if an image has been tampered with. Vlad Morarium, an Adobe researcher, employed artificial intelli...

When a text can trigger a lynching

When a text can trigger a lynching

-- 2018-06-26 15:14:28

A WhatsApp text circulating in some districts of India’s central Madhya Pradesh state helped to inflame a mob of 50-60 villagers into savagely beating up two innocent men last week on suspicion...

YouTube faces criticism from content creators

YouTube faces criticism from content creators

-- 2018-06-26 12:13:40

Video makers with millions of subscribers on YouTube expressed frustration at a trade show last week that the service notifies only a portion of their followers about new posts, causing declines in vi...

China's tech giants splash out in cartoon arms race

China's tech giants splash out in cartoon arms race

-- 2018-06-24 14:07:50

Growing up in the Chinese port city of Dalian in the 1990s, Zhang Hongchang spent hours immersed in Japanese cartoons like Dragon Ball and Naruto. China’s home-grown cartoons paled in compariso...

Researchers create world's smallest ‘computer’

Researchers create world's smallest ‘computer’

-- 2018-06-24 14:06:15

Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) in the United States have come out with the world's smallest ‘computer’, a device that measures just 0.3 mm to a side, completely dwarfed by...