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When you look at the popular, artificially intelligent “assistants” on the market today, they’re really just voice-recognition engines, coupled with pattern- and image-recognition and search engines. But those capabilities, when allowed to ‘learn’ over time, start to form the basis of cognition, inference, and then reasoning. Add attitude, subjective opinion, and feelings, and we get close to the human-brain benchmarks that all machine-learning scientists are pursuing. 25 […]

DUBAI // Schools need to strike a better balance between preparing pupils to pass exams and providing a holistic education, a new report by Dubai’s education regulator says. The Future of Education report published by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority said the best schools prepared pupils for the future, not just tests. The research was conducted in partnership with the Education Development Trust, a non-profit education […]

By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park | SEOUL SEOUL North Korea’s successful missile test-launch signals major advances in developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, such as mastery of re-entry technology and better engine performance key to targeting the United States, experts say. The isolated country has been developing a long-range missile capable of striking the mainland United States mounted with a nuclear warhead. That would require a flight […]

Lattice Data Apple has acquired Lattice Data, a data mining company which could give Apple a stronger talent pool in the artificial intelligence and analytics fields. Over the weekend, TechCrunch reported that Lattice Data, born out of the statistical inference Stanford research project DeepDive in 2015, had been quietly purchased by Apple. The company’s mission is to “unlock the value in dark data for critical real-world problems,” […]

By Hyunjoo Jin | YONGIN, South Korea YONGIN, South KoreaSouth Korean engineer Kim Gwang-ho flew 11,000 km (7,000 miles) to Washington last year to do something he never dreamed he would: he reported alleged safety lapses at Hyundai Motor Co – his employer of 26 years – to U.S. regulators. Citing an internal report from Hyundai’s quality strategy team to management, Kim told the U.S. National Highway […]

Apple is expected to make its voice assistant Siri a lot smarter in the foreseeable future, as evidenced by its recent acquisition of AI company Lattice Data. The Cupertino brand reportedly forked over $200 million to close the deal. Apple Beefs Up AI Efforts According to TechCrunch, an unnamed source told it that Apple has already completed the acquisition a couple of weeks earlier. The agreement also […]

ATHENS One person died and two others were injured when a fire fanned by an early heatwave tore through a forested area in a town near Athens on Sunday, the fire brigade said. TV pictures showed plumes of smoke rising above the town of Agioi Theodoroi, some 65 km (40 miles) west of Athens, as the fire burned through large areas of woodland. Rescuers recovered a body […]

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In this May 12, 2017 photo, a display panel with an error can be seen at the main railway station in Chemnitz, Germany. Germany’s national railway says that it was among the organizations affected by the global cyberattack but there was no impact on train services. Deutsche Bahn said early Saturday that departure and arrival display screens at its stations were hit Friday night by the attack. […]

Amman, 14 May 2017  Marking the debut of The Ritz-Carlton brand in Jordan, Al Eqbal Real Estate Development and Marriot International have announced the signing of an agreement to establish The Ritz-Carlton hotel and residences in Amman, which is scheduled to be complete in 2020. The agreement was inked by Tawfiq Fakhouri, Founder and Chairman of Al Eqbal Real Estate Development, and Alex Kyriakidis, President and Managing […]

People walk past a Megafon mobile phones shop in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 13, 2017. A top Russian mobile operator said Friday it had come under cyberattacks that appeared similar to those that have crippled some U.K. hospitals. Pyotr Lidov, a spokesman for Megafon, said Friday’s attacks froze computers in company’s offices across Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) The cyberattack that spread malicious software around the world, shutting […]

By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim | SEOUL SEOUL North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of calls to rein in its weapons programme, South Korean and U.S. officials said, days after a new leader took office in the South, pledging to engage it in dialogue. The U.S. Pacific Command said it was assessing the type of missile but it was “not consistent with […]

State-owned utility Qatar General Water & Electricity Corporation (Kahramaa) has awarded Siemens its largest contract to-date in Qatar for the expansion of the country’s power transmission network. As part of the deal, valued at QR3.1 billion ($851 million), Siemens will deliver 35 turnkey super and primary substations for phase 13 of the Qatar Power Transmission System Expansion project. This marks a significant milestone for Siemens, which has […]

Researchers have successfully modeled a human heart on an engineered chip and measured the effects of chemical exposure on functions of heart tissue using microelectrodes, a development scientists hope will decrease the time needed for new prescription drug trials and ensure potentially lifesaving drugs are safe and effective, while at the same time reducing the need for human and animal testing. (via WSJ)

Brick makers Forterra and Ibstock hit record highs on Friday after Berenberg tipped them as a way to play the UK’s housing shortage. New home construction should be underpinned in the short term by the Help To Buy subsidy, and over the longer term by government support to bring smaller builders back into the market, Berenberg said. Its team estimated that the UK’s shortfall now stood at […]

MP3 players had once been the de facto audiophile gadget, the thing you needed to have if you wanted on-the-go music sessions. Apple, in particular, has had a stake in the MP3 market for many years thanks to its continued refresh of the iPod line. Yet the most recent model, the sixth-generation iPod touch, was released as far back as 2015. That’s because in recent times, MP3 players […]

ABU DHABI // Confetti rained over Kareem Hanafieh and his teammates as they stood on the first-place podium hoisting their trophy in the air. Winning a model racing car challenge came as a surprise for the Al Yasmina School pupils following a long day of competitions against their peers at Yas Marina Circuit on Saturday in the Formula Ethara competition. “I’m feeling on top of the world […]

Elon Musk has an ambitious goal to decongest traffic through underground tunnels and he’s now shared footage of the project, but tread lightly. The video comes with a warning that it might trigger seizures or cause motion sickness. It shows a test run of an electric sled that would swiftly move cars through the tunnels at 125 mph (200 km/h), automatically shifting from one tunnel to another. […]

Nearly 70 years after he produced Hong Kong’s first plastic duck, toy industry veteran LT Lam’s factories in China now churn out everything from Transformers to Play-Doh. But with costs rising in China and the industry fragmenting because of technological advances and changing consumer tastes, the 93-year-old worries that Hong Kong could lose its decades-long role at the heart of the global toy industry. “We started with […]

Technology and media confluence sets #AJTechSummit top trending on social media for two days May 11, 2017 – Doha, Qatar Held under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al-Thani, Chairman of Al Jazeera Media Network, AJMN’s “Future of Media – Leaders’ Summit” concluded today at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Doha. The Summit, the first of its kind in the region, prominent figures and […]

By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA has delayed the first launch of its heavy-payload rocket until 2019 and decided against an idea floated by the White House to put astronauts aboard the capsule that is set to fly around the moon, the U.S. space agency said on Friday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had hoped to launch the Space Launch System, […]

But conservatives have targeted Mr. Rouhani for what they regard as his softness toward the United States and tolerance of Western culture. They also have sharply criticized him for what they call his misleading prediction that the nuclear agreement would herald an economic boom in Iran, where joblessness remains pervasive and the economy is the most pressing campaign issue. Still, Mr. Rouhani is considered the front-runner. Photo […]

By Costas Pitas and Carlos Ruano | LONDON/MADRID LONDON/MADRID A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in dozens of other countries on Friday. Russian cyber security software maker Kaspersky Lab said its researchers had observed more than 45,000 attacks in 74 countries as […]

Nearly 50 student teams from middle and high schools, colleges and universities in 22 states demonstrated advanced rocketry and engineering skills in NASA’s 2017 Student Launch challenge. Teams spent eight months building and testing rockets designed to fly to an altitude of one mile, deploy an automated parachute system, and safely land for reuse. Source link

One of the most popular passwords in 2016 was “qwertyuiop,” even though most password meters will tell you how weak that is. The problem is no existing meters offer any good advice to make it better—until now. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago have just unveiled a new, state-of-the-art password meter that offers real-time feedback and advice to help people create better passwords. […]

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