Business
Ministers from G7 top economies on Thursday reached consensus on steps towards an accord on taxing digital giants, an issue that has divided the United States and its allies Britain and France.
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Internet
Poland and Lithuania said Thursday they were looking into the potential security risks of using a Russian-made face-editing app that has triggered a viral social media trend where users post "aged" selfies.
Jul 18, 2019
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Business
Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven rich democracies issued a stark warning on Thursday that cryptocurrencies like the Libra digital money recently unveiled by Facebook should not be allowed before "serious regulatory ...
Jul 18, 2019
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Security
Oakland police and other city departments will not use facial recognition technology under a new policy—the third of its kind in the United States.
Jul 18, 2019
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After surviving a two-day battering on Capitol Hill, now comes the hard part for Facebook Inc.: turning its 12-page white paper into a legitimate cryptocurrency in the face of deep skepticism from central banks, regulators ...
Jul 18, 2019
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Internet
A platform to turn the growing sea of social media data into usable and lifesaving information in real time is advancing as more first responders and public safety agencies across the United States engage with the growing ...
Jul 18, 2019
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Automotive
A Mountain View, California, company has a vision of driver assistive truck platooning as a potential change maker for the trucking industry—in a good way, namely, carrying with it safety and fuel efficiency.
Computer Sciences
Let's say you're doing research that requires millions of geotagged tweets. Or perhaps you're a journalist who wants to map murders in Chicago from 2001 to the present. You need to find large spatio-temporal datasets—but ...
Jul 18, 2019
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Engineering
DGIST announced on Tuesday, July 16 that Senior Researcher Dae-gun Oh's team in the Collaborative Robots Research Center developed a radar system that can detect subminiature drones that are 3km away. This research is expected ...
Jul 18, 2019
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Business
Hundreds of "friendly" robots that speak multiple languages and sing are being rolled out across hi-tech Singapore, to help clean the city-state's hotels, shopping malls and government buildings.
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