Plastic waste is flooding our landfills and leaking into the oceans, with potentially disastrous effects. In fact, the World Economic Forum predicts that if current production and waste management trends continue, by 2050 ...
Environment
Jun 11, 2018
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As the planet continues to warm, climate change impacts are worsening. In 2016, there were 772 weather and disaster events, triple the number that occurred in 1980. Twenty percent of species currently face extinction, and ...
Environment
Jun 6, 2018
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The new Google digital assistant converses so naturally it may seem like a real person.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 10, 2018
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It's accumulating in the oceans, lakes and rivers; its microbeads are now embedded in our biology; it is disgusting and dangerous and doesn't biodegrade. It's our old friend, plastics. Last week, several New York City Council ...
Environment
Apr 23, 2018
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Americans are torn over the promise of artificial intelligence, a new poll showed Wednesday, expressing broad optimism about the emerging technologies but also fearing their negative impacts—including job losses, a poll ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 31, 2018
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Intelligent robots and all-knowing online networks threaten to drag humanity into a "totalitarian" nightmare of mind control, mass unemployment and children hooked on smartphones, experts warned at this week's Davos summit.
Business
Jan 26, 2018
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"Artificial intelligence and robots will kill many jobs."
Business
Jan 26, 2018
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Billionaire investor George Soros launched a scathing attack on tech giants at the Davos summit on Thursday, calling them monopolies that could be manipulated by authoritarians to subvert democracy.
Business
Jan 26, 2018
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The British government called Thursday for global regulation of controversial virtual currency bitcoin, adding that the G20 would address the topic in March.
Internet
Jan 25, 2018
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It can topple governments, confer international bragging rights and pretty much obsessed the government of China once the country began its long march back to economic prowess.
Economics & Business
Jan 25, 2018
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