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Container ship France

Autonomous shipping: Rolls-Royce and Intel weigh anchor

By Billy Duberstein

Autonomous shipping fleets could be roaming the seas by 2030.

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Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge

China opens world's longest bridge linking Hong Kong to 'motherland'

The $20 billion bridge includes an undersea tunnel allowing ships to pass through the Pearl River delta.

By Associated Press

The Apple Campus 2

The Apple car? Analyst claims it could be on the road by 2025

Speculation surrounding Apple's interest in automobile technology have persisted for years.

By Alex Perry

Amazon's Alexa personal assistant

There's a reason Siri, Alexa and AI are imagined as female – sexism

Female AI is, more often than not, envisaged in a submissive servile role.

By Amy Chambers

Amazon's Alexa personal assistant

Why Amazon doesn't worry about its lack of Alexa shoppers

Alexa will continue creeping into consumers' homes for the foreseeable future.

By Leo Sun

Cancer treatment

AI will revolutionise the battle against cancer

Doctors and AI can work together to solve medicine's greatest challenges.

By Dr. Simon Kos

Wind turbines and solar panels

From post-apocalyptic nomads to an Ikea world: Radical visions of the future of energy

What if we could fundamentally shift our thinking and reset our energy priorities and investment plans?

By Rohit Talwar

Jeffrey Bezos Amazon

Space tourism: All aboard for the trip to the final frontier?

To the ordinary person, commercial space travel may seem like a pipe dream, but at an embryonic level a few well-funded...

By Loizos Heracleous

Happy 50th birthday Intel, you look a lot like the next Kodak

Is Intel's business model and the demands of shareholders a threat to the microprocessor giant?

By Howard Yu

German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with a humanoid robot

Man versus robot: Three ways humans can thrive in tomorrow's workplace

There are broad areas of human skills that artificial intelligence cannot replicate.

By Charlie Nunn

German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with a humanoid robot

Robots to the rescue: How automation can create a more equal society

Discussion on automation often focuses on dystopian outcomes but it could improve gender equality at work.

By Debra Howcroft

Google pledges not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

The search giant had been formulating a patchwork of policies around ethical questions for years, and finally put them...

By Associated Press

China Electric Car

China accelerating into the future with electric cars

By Associated Press

China's auto show to reveal electric ambitions to clean-up its smog-chocked...

dollar bills

How the cashless society can help the world's poor prosper

By Sudhesh Giriyan

Financial inclusion in the developing world: Technology is the key to unlocking...

Lightcatcher

Lightcatcher: This Cold War-era Russian truck is being converted into a massive 1800s-style camera

By Immanuel Jotham

When complete, the camera will have a resolution which is comparable to that of...

The GIRI instrument

What does the inside of a rock look like? Scientists can now give you a tour

By Immanuel Jotham

Geologists used a camera, a grinder and AI to make a 3D model of a rock.

US B1-B bombers

US Air Force wants to purchase two new cast iron shell cluster bombs and is looking for vendors

By Immanuel Jotham

The US Air Force has specified two classes of bombs – one 2,000 pounds and...

New state of matter - Rydberg polarons

Physicists just created an exotic new state of matter by stuffing an atom full of atoms

By India Ashok

The new state of matter is formed at highly cold temperatures, using atoms...

LG's CLOi personal assistant robot

What's ahead for smartphone prices, AI and smart speakers?

By Annette Zimmermann

By 2020, 20% of citizens in developed countries will use AI assistants to help...

iPhone apps

How Apple's app store changed our world

By Associated Press

It is a mere ten years since the opened a store peddling iPhone apps launching...

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Apple Samsung

Jury says Samsung must pay $539M for copying parts of iPhone

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Job application form

Hiring with conviction: Give former prisoners a decent chance in the workplace

By James Reed

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