US targets ripple crypto creators
The US financial watchdog is chasing the firm behind a major crypto currency, accusing it of failing to respect regulations on offering unregistered digital assets.
Dec 23, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
How an AI 'SantaNet' might end up destroying the world
Within the next few decades, according to some experts, we may see the arrival of the next step in the development of artificial intelligence. So-called "artificial general intelligence", or AGI, will have intellectual capabilities ...
Dec 23, 2020
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Business
Pilot redundancies dodged as Lufthansa inks deal with union
German airline Lufthansa said Wednesday it has reached a deal with a union that heads off any forced redundancies of pilots to March 2022, as the aviation giant struggles to stay solvent in the pandemic.
Dec 23, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Renewables offer savings for Philippine small islands
Shifting to renewables in small islands and isolated areas can provide cheap, reliable energy to more than half of the Philippine population or around 50 million people, says a new report by the US-based Institute for Energy ...
Dec 23, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Exploring the notion of shortcut learning in deep neural networks
Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) tools, particularly deep neural networks, have achieved remarkable results on a number of tasks. However, recent studies have found that these computational techniques ...
Energy & Green Tech
Four ways microbial fuel cells might revolutionize electricity production in the future
The world population is estimated to reach 9.5 billion by 2050. Given that most of our current energy is generated from fossil fuels, this creates significant challenges when it comes to providing enough sustainable electricity ...
Dec 23, 2020
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Engineering
Cashing in on additive manufacturing
Three-dimensional printing, 3-D printing, has developed steadily over the last three decades or so. It has become, if not commonplace, then more well-known and utilized in wide-ranging industries, it is. It has been something ...
Dec 23, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Japan's renewable energy sector seeks carbon-neutral windfall
Japan needs to boost renewable energy by reforming outdated policies on land use and the national grid if it is to meet a new goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, industry players and experts say.
Dec 23, 2020
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Business
Musk: Apple CEO didn't take meeting about buying Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he once considered selling the electric car maker to Apple, but the iPhone maker's CEO blew off the meeting.
Dec 23, 2020
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