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City replaces parking meters with electronic kiosks
Business, Associated Press, Published on 31/10/2017
» OKLAHOMA CITY: The city where parking meters were born more than eight decades ago is phasing out the last of the coin-gobbling contraptions that reshaped America's downtowns in favour of computerised models seen in many other places.
70% 'not afraid of robots taking jobs'
Business, Associated Press, Published on 06/10/2017
» WASHINGTON: Most Americans believe their jobs are safe from the spread of automation and robotics, at least during their lifetimes, and only a handful says automation has cost them a job or loss of income.
Zuckerberg, Musk trade barbs over AI
Business, Associated Press, Published on 27/07/2017
» SAN FRANCISCO: Tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk recently slugged it out online over the possible threat artificial intelligence might one day pose to the human race, although you could be forgiven if you don't see why this seems like a pressing question.
IoT devices 'prone to hacking'
Business, Associated Press, Published on 10/03/2017
» NEW YORK: These days, it's possible to use your phone -- and sometimes just your voice -- to control everything from your TV to your lights, your thermostat and shades, even your car or medical device. (At least, once you have gadgets that can listen.)
For typewriters, the ribbon may have finally run out
Business, Associated Press, Published on 24/01/2017
» NEW DELHI: The end is coming, though admittedly it may not look that way at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, when dozens of young Indians have arrived for morning classes at Anand Type, Shorthand and Keypunch College, and every battered Remington is clattering away.