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  Mumbai (AFP) March 31, 2019 From a multi-billion-dollar education startup to wired-up mannequins, technology is helping to revolutionise the way Indian schoolchildren are learning - provided their parents can afford it. A host of online platforms are taking advantage of a surge in smartphone ownership to engage millions of youngsters with interactive games and animated video lessons. India's education system suffers from a lack of investment, and the apps aid students who want extra tuition away from overcrowded classroom ... read more |
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Google workers want ultra-conservative off AI councilSan Francisco (AFP) April 1, 2019 A group of Google employees launched a public campaign Monday to remove the president of the conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation from an outside artificial intelligence ethics advisory panel. ... more  
Is Space Mining a Viable Future?Montreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 01, 2019 Space is the final frontier for resource exploitation. Asteroids orbiting near earth are masses of potential riches such as platinum, fresh water, and other resources scarce on earth. However, with ... more 
GITAI signs joint robotic research agreement with JAXATokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 GITAI (Head Office: San Francisco, US; Japanese Branch: Meguro, Tokyo) has signed a joint research agreement with JAXA (the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency). Experiments in using GITAI's ... more 
Using AI to build better human-machine teamsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 25, 2019 The inability of artificial intelligence (AI) to represent and model human partners is the single biggest challenge preventing effective human-machine teaming today. Current AI agents are able ... more |
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New cell-sized micro robots might make incredible journeysWashington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 Researchers have harnessed the latest nanofabrication techniques to create bug-shaped robots that are wirelessly powered, able to walk, able to survive harsh environments and tiny enough to be injec ... more 
Seeing through a robot's eyes helps those with profound motor impairmentsAtlanta GA (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 An interface system that uses augmented reality technology could help individuals with profound motor impairments operate a humanoid robot to feed themselves and perform routine personal care tasks ... more 
Robots help bees and fish communicateWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2019 Bees and fish can now converse with each other thanks to new robotics technology designed by researchers in Europe. ... more  
NASA's Mars 2020 rover is put to the testPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 20, 2019 In a little more than seven minutes in the early afternoon of Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 rover will execute about 27,000 actions and calculations as it speeds through the hazardous transition f ... more 
Drone maps icy lava tube to prepare for cave exploration on Moon and MarsMountain View CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2019 The SETI Institute and Astrobotic Technology, Inc. are announcing the successful mapping in 3D of the interior of an ice-rich lava tube in Iceland using a LiDAR-equipped drone. The team was investig ... more |
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Faster robots demoralize co-workersIthaca NY (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 It's not whether you win or lose; it's how hard the robot is working. A Cornell University-led team has found that when robots are beating humans in contests for cash prizes, people consider themsel ... more  |
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Will artificial intelligence be the future of music?Austin (AFP) March 12, 2019 They may never be able to fill a stadium for a rock concert, but computers are making inroads in the music industry, capable of producing songs - and convincingly so - as illustrated at the South by Southwest festival in Texas. ... more 
China is overtaking US in artificial intelligence: researchersWashington (AFP) March 13, 2019 China is poised to overtake the United States in artificial intelligence with a surge in academic research on the key technology, an analysis published Wednesday showed. ... more 
Movie technology inspires wearable liquid unit that aims to harvest energyWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 A fascination with movie technology that showed robots perform self-repair through a liquid formula inspired a Purdue University professor to make his own discoveries - which are now helping to lead ... more 
A robotic leg, born without prior knowledge, learns to walkLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 For a newborn giraffe or wildebeest, being born can be a perilous introduction to the world - predators lie in wait for an opportunity to make a meal of the herd's weakest member. This is why many s ... more 
Ultra-low power chips help make small robots more capableAtlanta GA (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 An ultra-low power hybrid chip inspired by the brain could help give palm-sized robots the ability to collaborate and learn from their experiences. Combined with new generations of low-power motors ... more |
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 Vienna (AFP) April 4, 2019 
It was more of a small step than a giant leap, but the first public outing of a pilotless "drone taxi" in Vienna on Thursday nevertheless offered a glimpse into the possible future of urban travel.
Several big companies such as Boeing and Airbus are working on their own versions of the technology but it was the Chinese firm EHang that unveiled its aircraft to assembled journalists in the Aus ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 1, 2019 
The head of NASA on Monday branded India's destruction of one of its satellites a "terrible thing" that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Jim Bridenstine was addressing employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration five days after India shot down a low-orbiting satellite in a missile test to ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 
Crystals possessing "handedness" exhibit unusual properties. New evidence suggests that they can host electrons moving like slowed down light and their collective behavior mimics magnetic monopoles.
An international team of researchers has discovered that certain classes of crystals with an asymmetry like biological "handedness," known as chiral crystals, may harbor electrons that behave i ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 28, 2019 
The United States has given the green light to companies to work on six nuclear projects in Saudi Arabia, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday, despite lawmakers' worries that the kingdom could seek weapons.
Questioned during a Senate hearing, Perry confirmed that the Trump administration has approved six applications to do initial nuclear work in Saudi Arabia and two in Jordan.
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 Montevideo (AFP) April 1, 2019 
Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez sacked his defense minister and the chief of the army Monday over links to a scandal dating from the Latin Amercan country's 1970s dictatorship, local media reported.
Vazquez dismissed Defense Minister Jorge Menendez and army chief General Jose Gonzalez after a newspaper detailed the evidence of a former intelligence officer given before a secret military t ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 30, 2019 
The Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and even the ancient Acropolis in Athens were plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change and its impact on the planet's vanishing plant and animal life.
The 13th edition of Earth Hour, organised by green group WWF, saw millions of people across 180 countries turn off their lights at ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 02, 2019 
Rice University researchers literally have a solution to deal with the glut of used lithium-ion batteries left behind by the ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles, cellphones and other electronic devices.
The Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan used an environmentally friendly deep eutectic solvent to extract valuable elements from the metal oxides commonly used as catho ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 01, 2019 
China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province late Sunday night.
The Tianlian II-01 satellite was launched at 11:51 p.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.
As the first satellite to constitute China's second-generation data relay satellite network, the Tianlian II-01 will provide data relay ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (VOA) Apr 05, 2019 
Boeing's new space capsule for astronauts faces more launch delays. The Starliner capsule was supposed to make its debut this month, after a series of postponements. But the first test flight is now off until August. And the second test flight, with astronauts, won't occur until late in the year.
NASA announced the revised lineup Wednesday. At the same time, officials said the first Starli ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
According to NASA, scientists are in agreement that there is no life on Mars. However, they continue to assess whether Mars ever had an environment capable of supporting microbial life.
Now, researchers from Hungary have discovered embedded organic material in a Martian meteorite found in the late 1970s. The scientists were able to determine the presence of organic matter in mineralised fo ... more |
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 Bay St. Louis MS (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
NASA is a step closer to returning astronauts to the Moon in the next five years following a successful engine test on Thursday at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The latest "hot fire" was the culmination of four-plus years of testing for the RS-25 engines that will send the first four Space Launch System (SLS) rockets into space.
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 New York (AFP) March 29, 2019  After several failed attempts, New York state is poised to ban single-use plastic bags provided by stores, making it only the second US state, after California, to pass such a rule.
With Democrats controlling both chambers of the state legislature, lawmakers have reached agreement to include the plastic ban in a broader framework of budgetary measures to be voted on by Monday.
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) April 2, 2019  German authorities have identified hundreds of trucks "manipulated" to save their operators money by shutting off exhaust treatment systems, saying many more cheating vehicles could be at large on Europe's roads.
Of around 13,000 trucks whose "AdBlue" filter system was checked on German roads last year, 300 were "defective", a government answer to a parliamentary question from the Greens par ... more |
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 Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 
Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with colleagues from Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), ITMO University and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) developed a method for efficient mass production of silicon-germanium fully alloyed nanoantennas.
On their basis, optical biosensory platforms and next-generation chemical se ... more |
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Washington (AFP) April 1, 2019
The head of NASA on Monday branded India's destruction of one of its satellites a "terrible thing" that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Jim Bridenstine was addressing employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration five days after India shot down a low-orbiting satellite in a missile test to ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) March 28, 2019 
Monsanto was ordered on Wednesday to pay some $81 million to an American retiree who blames his cancer on the agribusiness giant's weedkiller Roundup.
A San Francisco jury found the firm, which is owned by Bayer, had been "negligent by not using reasonable care" to warn of the risks of its product, ordering it to pay Edwin Hardeman $75 million in punitive damages, $5.6 million in compensatio ... more |
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