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Playing with purpose
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 07/06/2017
» Games give more than pleasure and entertainment. Many have been used as tools for solving social issues that cannot be tackled by other approaches.
Alphabet joins drone tests as US considers new rules
AFP, Published on 03/08/2016
» WASHINGTON - Google parent Alphabet is joining tests for drone deliveries, US officials announced Tuesday, as the White House unveiled accelerated rulemaking for commercial unmanned aircraft operations.
Google CEO meets with EU anti-trust chief
AFP, Published on 26/02/2016
» BRUSSELS - Google chief executive Sundar Pichai met with the European Union's top anti-trust official Margrethe Vestager on Thursday in an effort to narrow differences ahead of a landmark competition decision on the company.
World first 'drone-port' planned in Rwanda
AFP, Published on 30/09/2015
» KIGALI - It sounds like science fiction: unmanned drones carrying emergency medicine zooming above the rolling hills of Rwanda.
Tripling Internet access would do more good than tackling HIV: study
AFP, Published on 12/12/2014
» GENEVA - Dramatically expanding broadband access would boost the global economy and could do more good than investing in HIV prevention or clean drinking water, according to a study published Thursday.
Amazon warns it could take drones testing outside US
AFP, Published on 09/12/2014
» NEW YORK - Amazon, keen to blaze a trail with delivery by drone, is threatening to take much of its research for the plan outside the United States amid frustrations with US regulators.
AIS courts tech start-ups
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 19/02/2014
» Venture capital funds investing in technology start-up firms continue to grow at a rapid pace despite the current political impasse, thanks to highly profitable investment opportunities.
Competition for tablet auction heats up
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 18/06/2013
» Thailand's Supreme Distribution and China's Shenzhen Yitoa Intelligent Control could become the largest suppliers of tablet computers in the next round of bidding under the One Tablet Per Child scheme after they passed the technical round yesterday.
TOT inches closer to funding deal
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 20/05/2013
» Japanese telecom firms SoftBank and the Sumitomo Group have essentially committed to providing financial assistance to TOT Plc during the second phase of its third-generation (3G) mobile network expansion.
Startups at SXSW in search of some better mousetraps
AFP Relax News, Published on 12/03/2013
» Not long after her husband left her "to live in a van down by the river" in Idaho, as she puts it, Elissa Shevinsky thought it was high time for a better mousetrap.