Two tech investors, Ian Hogarth and Nathan Benaich, have been detailing the State of AI every year since 2018. They released their 2020 version in…
The financial services industry and the industries that involve financial transactions are suffering from fraud-related losses and damages. 2016 was a banner year for financial…
1. Pachama For predicting carbon capture Measuring how much forests are capturing carbon in the atmosphere is usually a labor-intensive, manual process—making it difficult to…
Portugal’s Constitutional Court ruled Monday that legislation that would permit physician assisted death is unconstitutional. The bill limited physician-assisted dying to terminally ill patients in…
Canada’s senate passed a bill on Wednesday that expands access to medically assisted dying for more Canadians with medical issues. The bill received royal assent…
Spain legalized euthanasia on Thursday for persons who are gravely ill or ill with an incurable disease. The bill was approved with 202 votes for…
On Friday, unsealed court records from a federal grand jury indictment revealed four Proud Boys leaders have been charged with six counts including conspiracy in…
The classic 1995 crime film The Usual Suspects revolves around the police interrogation of Roger “Verbal” Kint, played by Kevin Spacey. Kint paraphrases Charles Baudelaire,…
HSBC has deployed an internal chatbot powered by Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology to speed bank employees’ handling of questions about the bank’s internal…
Gone are the days when insurance companies used race, sex and a person’s age to determine their auto insurance premiums. A new whitepaper by Cognizant, titled “The…
BIG Brother-like mass state surveillance is being developed by China with streets full of cameras that can monitor citizens’ emotions and track their “social credit”…
India introduced on February 25 broad new regulations to social media, online news websites, and streaming platforms, which experts say could seriously change the way Indian citizens…
In 2020, August, IBM warned about a security flaw in millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices including “Smart” Meters and medical implants. But IoT…
Morgan Stanley is about to become the first major US bank to offer its wealth-management client access to cryptocurrency funds. In a major coup for…
Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity,…
Some industries will have to do significant machine learning adoption. Gradually recovering from the effects of COVID-19 pandemic, will be a top priority for practically…
Creo has unveiled its BioBulb platform that allows businesses to create appealing indoor plant walls with automated water and nutrient systems. The system uses AI to…
The European Commission sent a letter of formal notice to the UK Monday for breaching the provisions of the Northern Ireland Protocol and its good…
Recent technological advancements have enabled the development of new tools to assist people with different types of disabilities, allowing them to move more freely in…
Opportunities missed and opportunities seized in the chronicle of international diplomacy in modern history provide two outstanding illustrative examples. After centuries of enmity and the…