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As AI rises, lawmakers try to catch up
AFP, Published on 28/12/2022
» PARIS: From "intelligent" vacuum cleaners and driverless cars to advanced techniques for diagnosing diseases, artificial intelligence has burrowed its way into every arena of modern life.
Cracking the covert app that exposed Europe's drug gangs
AFP, Published on 30/11/2022
» BRUSSELS - From torture and murder in the Netherlands and Serbia to an unprecedented web of corruption in Belgium, the Sky ECC investigation has shone a light into some of Europe's darkest corners.
Perseverance rover, helicopter land on Mars this week
AFP, Published on 16/02/2021
» WASHINGTON: After a seven-month journey, Nasa's Perseverance rover prepares to touch down on Mars on Thursday after first negotiating a risky landing procedure that will mark the start of its multi-year search for signs of ancient microbial life.
Internet reposts can mean jail in Russia crackdown
AFP, Published on 08/07/2016
» MOSCOW - Recent graduate Maxim Kormelitsky did not think twice when he shared a picture online with an expletive-ridden caption about Russian Orthodox believers and their tradition of jumping into freezing cold water.
Yahoo Messenger rebuilt with eye to the future
AFP, Published on 03/12/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo launched a next-generation messaging platform Thursday in an ambitious bid to steal a march on a crowded field, as rumors swirled that the Internet pioneer is considering selling its core business.
Video game lovers flock to 'Fallout 4' wasteland
AFP, Published on 14/11/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - Action video game lovers are flocking in record numbers to the radioactive wasteland of freshly launched mega-hit "Fallout 4."
A house that runs itself? Samsung believes it's about time
AFP, Published on 04/09/2015
» BERLIN - Imagine the alarm clock ringing on a typical Monday morning, except this time the curtains draw themselves back, the bathroom lights switch on automatically and you smell fresh coffee brewing.
#ThisIsACoup trends on Twitter as eurozone agrees tough Greece deal
AFP, Published on 13/07/2015
» ATHENS - A bailout proposal eurozone countries hammered out for Greece has sparked a trending Twitter hashtag, #ThisIsACoup, containing harsh terms seen as stripping Athens of its fiscal sovereignty.
Streaming sets the tune for French Riviera music trade show
AFP, Published on 05/06/2015
» PARIS - The music industry's debate about streaming -- saviour or supplanter? -- will be at the forefront of the annual Midem trade show starting on the French Riviera on Friday.
Recapturing the humanity in the Internet's birth, on stage
AFP, Published on 02/04/2015
» PALO ALTO (UNITED STATES) - Is the Internet a force for public good, or for social control? Or a bit of both? Such tensions, so prevalent in today's debates, were rife at the very dawn of the computer age.