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Google 'anti-competitive' over online ad tech: UK

US tech titan Google employs "anti-competitive practices" with regards to online advertising, Britain's competition watchdog concluded Friday in provisional findings of a two-year long investigation.

China's Ant Group launches AI 'life assistant'

The fintech firm backed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made a foray into products powered by artificial intelligence after announcing a "life assistant" mobile app.

Dutch match US export curbs on semiconductor machines

The Dutch government announced Friday broader restrictions on exports of semiconductor-making machines produced by sector heavyweight ASML, aligning itself with US curbs on technology at the center of trade tensions with ...

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New French nuclear reactor enters automatic shutdown
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Developing GaN transistors and high-power amplifiers for millimeter wave satellite communications
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Two astronauts are left behind in space as Boeing's troubled capsule returns to Earth empty
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Solution to a cosmic mystery—the eccentric orbits of trans-Neptunian objects
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Researchers make sound waves travel in one direction only, with implications for electromagnetic wave technology
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Neolithic bones reveal isolated Yersinia pestis infections, not pandemics
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Researchers advance new class of quantum critical metal that could advance electronic devices
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Solving the side effect problem of siRNA drugs for genetic disease treatment
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How drivers and cars understand each other

Optimizing communication between vehicle and driver as a function of the degree of automation is the objective of a research project conducted by Fraunhofer in collaboration with other companies. The researchers are combining ...

Updated software improves slicing for large-format 3D printing

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first additive manufacturing slicing computer application to simultaneously speed and simplify digital conversion of accurate, large-format ...

Augmented reality tech aids manufacturing productivity

High-tech factory workers of the future will rely on training and support from Industry 4.0 technology, such as augmented reality head-mounted display modules (AR-HMD), to manage workflow and remote trouble-shooting—including ...

A brief history of AI: how we got here and where we are going

With the current buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), it would be easy to assume that it is a recent innovation. In fact, AI has been around in one form or another for more than 70 years. To understand the current generation ...