This July marks the 50th anniversary of an audacious technological achievement: Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon. Since that moment, the United States has been the undisputed leader in all things high-tech. But America's dominance could be coming to an end. China aspires to be No. 1, and may very well get there. American leaders are taking notice.

Tesla will unveil a brand new electric utility vehicle later this month, Elon Musk has revealed. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter to announce the launch date of the Model Y, as well as new details about the vehicle. "Model Y unveil event on March 14 at LA Design Studio," he tweeted. "Model Y, being an SUV, is about 10 per cent bigger than Model 3, so will cost about 10 per cent more and have slightly less range for same battery... Detailed specs and pricing will be provided, as well as test rides in Y." Mr Musk had previously joked that the Model Y would be unveiled on 15 March because "the Ides of March sounded good", while Chinese media has speculated the event would take place at the Shanghai Auto Show in April. His posts generated thousands of replies from electric vehicle enthusiasts excited by the new product category, though Mr Musk suggested the launch event for the Tesla Truck later this year will be more groundbreaking.

Time Machine foresees to design and implement advanced new digitisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to mine Europe's vast cultural heritage, providing fair and free access to information that will support future scientific and technological developments in Europe The Time Machine will create advanced AI technologies to make sense of vast amounts of information from complex historical data sets. This will enable the transformation of fragmented data – with content ranging from medieval manuscripts and historical objects to smartphone and satellite images – into useable knowledge for industry. In essence, a large-scale computing and digitisation infrastructure will map Europe's entire social, cultural and geographical evolution. Considering the unprecedented scale and complexity of the data, The Time Machine's AI even has the potential to create a strong competitive advantage for Europe in the global AI race. "Time Machine is likely to become one of the most advanced Artificial Intelligence systems ever built, trained on data from wider geographical and temporal horizons", explains Frederic Kaplan, Professor of Digital Humanities at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Coordinator of the Time Machine Project.

The Asian superpower is cementing its position as the world leader in big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, as its government announces plans to unleash a massive number of university majors in this field. Its universities will offer around 400 new majors related to these emerging technologies, as well as 612 new engineering research projects, China's Ministry of Education (MOE) announced last week, as reported by the People's Daily Online. "AI and big data are newly established majors and will be taught in some directions like computer application technology, information and communication, control science and engineering," Fan Hailin, Deputy Director of MOE's Department of Higher Education said. The new courses show China's ambitions for global leadership in two areas: AI and higher education. Analysts predict it will probably win the former, as the US shows no signs of national technology investment strategies that could compete with China's.

LONDON - Dr. Chieko Asakawa's life motto: Make the impossible possible -- by never giving up. Blind since the age of 14, Asakawa has dedicated the past three decades to researching and developing new technologies to help transform the lives of the visually impaired. Asakawa's inventions have impacted millions worldwide and now one of them will receive one of the ultimate in industry accolades. The Osaka-born computer scientist, who lives in the United States, is among 19 innovators who will be inducted into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame in Washington in May. "It is a great honor to be recognized, one that is unexpected and a wonderful surprise," said Asakawa, an IBM distinguished service professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotic Institute in Pittsburgh.

Businesses across the GCC must embrace artificial intelligence technology or risk losing out to competitors, according to Oracle's senior vice president for the region, Andrew Sutherland. Speaking on the sidelines of the Oracle OpenWorld event at the Dubai World Trade Centre yesterday (Tuesday), Sutherland argued that the maxim'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' no longer applies for companies due to the emergence of new efficiency-driving technologies, which will give first movers a distinct advantage over those who are slow to adopt. "I am strongly of the opinion now that artificial intelligence (AI) in general, and autonomous databases in particular, are an inevitability," he told reporters. "This is not just airlines or card processing companies. Even a modest-sized organisation will need to handle more and more data and will want to spend more and more time getting value from that data – not administering it. "If your neighbour is getting 70 per cent less cost in managing their data, how are you going to compete?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It quietly integrated itself in nearly every aspect of our lives. Still, this technology is in its infancy and we don't entirely understand its full potential. We cringe at the idea of data being mined by governments, as reported in an amazing story on CBS's 60 Minutes. We worry about Big Brother, but excitedly lap up every Cortana or Siri update hoping it makes life just a little bit more interesting and easier.

Presidents have ordered troop surges into Iraq and Afghanistan, and President Trump is applying that strategy in another way. His Feb. 11 executive order requires a surge in research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The order requires federal agencies to drive progress on AI through their own research and development and through investing in R&D in the private sector and academia. "Artificial intelligence" and "machine learning" are terms used interchangeably despite the vast difference between them. To analyze where we need to go, we first need to define the terms.

Creating a fruitful and encouraging environment for young minds is a serious business and thanks to Turkey's 2023 Education Vision, students from all over the country are bringing out the scientists and inventors that lay inside of them. Believing that they can do good for society with their inventions, two high school students from Düzce created special goggles for the hearing impaired which turns speech into text. Düzce Science and Art Center (BİLSEM) students Ömer Berkay Biçen and Dağhan Akyürek rolled up their sleeves to make life easier for the hearing impaired and came up with light-emitting diode (LED) goggles which transfer spoken language into text. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), the project supervisor Adem Akkuş said the students from the Science and Art Center compete in national and international competitions with the projects they created. "I really liked the idea of helping the hearing impaired citizens in society. I helped the students while developing their project. These goggles are the product of intense work and determination. Our aim is to turn the project into a more practical device," he added.

Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI last month made the unusual announcement: It had built an AI-powered content creation engine so sophisticated that it wouldn't release the full model to developers. Anyone who works in cybersecurity immediately knew why. Phishing emails, which try to trick recipients into clicking malicious links, originated 91 percent of all cyberattacks in 2016, according to a study by Cofense Inc. Combining software bots to scrape personal information from social networks and public databases with such a powerful content generation engine could produce much more persuasive phishing emails that might even mimic a certain person's writing style, said Nicolas Kseib, lead data scientist at TruSTAR Technology LLC. The potential result: Cybercriminals could launch phishing attacks much faster and on an unprecedented scale. That danger neatly sums up the never-ending war that is the state of cybersecurity today, one in which no one can yet answer a central question: Will artificial intelligence provide more help to criminals or to the people trying to stop them?