• Apple’s new Mac with house-made silicon chips could arrive next week

    Apple’s new Mac with house-made silicon chips could arrive next week

    Apple on Monday announced that next week it will be holding its third hardware event in as many months — and this time the Mac is expected to get the spotlight. The gadget giant, which is fresh
  • Google's agricultural robots ready to sweep the fields

    Google's agricultural robots ready to sweep the fields

    To meet the increasing food needs in the world, several firms are banking on robotics. Alphabet, a Google holding company, has just presented its Mineral project. Its new autonomous robots would be able to individually analyze the evolution of each of the plants present in a field.
  • Israeli intelligence: Coronavirus is a runaway Chinese biological weapons virus

    Israeli intelligence: Coronavirus is a runaway Chinese biological weapons virus

    Israeli intelligence suspects that the horrendous coronavirus is a runaway Chinese biological weapons virus. The Wuhan Coronavirus which has shocked the world seems to have traced its origins.The brother of the virus that caused the SARS epidemic also originated not far from ‘his brother’. Reporting from the Washington Times, Radio Free Asia this week has …
  • U.S. Afghanistan Commander Says Intel Has Not Confirmed Russian Bounties on American Troops

    U.S. Afghanistan Commander Says Intel Has Not Confirmed Russian Bounties on American Troops

    The U.S. commander of troops in Afghanistan said that American intelligence officials have not been able to confirm the existence of a Russian bounty program offering Taliban militants rewards for targeting U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “It just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me,” General Frank McKenzie, commander of the …
  • China adopts new rules that thwart TikTok sale ahead of US ban

    China adopts new rules that thwart TikTok sale ahead of US ban

    China appears to be putting up roadblocks to TikTok parent ByteDance’s efforts to divest the video-sharing app’s US operations to comply with President Trump’s orders to sell it to a US company by September 15 or see it shut down in the US. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce added 23 items Friday to a list …
  • Amazon launches Halo health and fitness ‘wearable’ that tracks your emotions

    Amazon launches Halo health and fitness ‘wearable’ that tracks your emotions

    Forget steps — Amazon claims it can track your emotions with its new “wearable” artificial intelligence. With Thursday’s announcement of its Halo Band and app, the online megastore appears geared up to offer some serious health-and-wellness competition to market leaders Apple Watch and Fitbit. The new Amazon Halo app and Halo Band for $99.99 combines …
  • Beneath TikTok Fun Exterior Lies A Sinister Purpose

    Beneath TikTok Fun Exterior Lies A Sinister Purpose

    Three years since TikTok was launched, the video-sharing social network grown rapidly to accumulate more than two billion downloads, one of the most popular apps of the moment, beating even Instagram or YouTube in consumption time in the United States, United Kingdom or Spain, particularly among younger age segments. TikTok might be described as a …
  • An A.I. robot named Erica was cast in the lead role of a $70M sci-fi film

    An A.I. robot named Erica was cast in the lead role of a $70M sci-fi film

    As if the world wasn’t getting dystopian enough. An enterprising sci-fi film crew has devised an ingenious way to shoot their film while circumventing coronavirus concerns — by casting a real-life A.I. robot named Erica. The move marks the first time a movie will star an artificially intelligent actor, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “She …
  • Apple cuts ties with Intel during WWDC keynote address

    Apple cuts ties with Intel during WWDC keynote address

    Apple on Monday officially split from longtime chip-provider Intel during its Worldwide Developers Conference. The iPhone-maker, which has since 2006 sourced its processors for Mac computers from the company, announced the long-awaited move to its own house-designed chips during its WWDC keynote address, the Wall Street Journal reported. Apple already uses its own processor designs in …
  • Google says it won’t build AI tools for oil and gas drillers

    Google says it won’t build AI tools for oil and gas drillers

    Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon. A statement from the company Tuesday followed a Greenpeace report that documents how the three tech giants are using AI and computing power to help oil companies find …