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NASA plots a return to the moon within a decade — but this time astronauts will stay there

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

A Satellite grad who says NASA's history is her history, too. Through their eyes, we view how what happened in space in July 1969 changed life in an iconic part of Florida. On July 20, 1969, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, posed for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 moonwalk. The Lunar Module is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible. Bob Richards remembers watching the gray, ghostly figures bounce across his family's black-and-white TV screen nearly a half-century ago: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first humans walking on the moon.


Earnings Preview: What To Expect From Intuitive Surgical On Thursday

Forbes - Tech

GUANGZHOU, CHINA - APRIL 15: (CHINA OUT) Surgeons operate a da Vinci Surgical robot to remove the tumor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University on April 15, 2015 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province of China. Intuitive Surgical Inc. is an American corporation that manufactures robotic surgical systems, most notably the da Vinci Surgical System. The da Vinci Surgical System allows surgery to be performed using robotic manipulators. Intuitive Surgical Inc. is scheduled to release earnings after Thursday's close. The stock just hit a record high of $532.30/share and is trading near $523/share.


'All-new Xbox hardware' to be announced soon, teases Microsoft

The Independent - Tech

Microsoft is set to launch "all-new Xbox hardware", the company has announced. It has revealed little more other than the fact that the announcements will made at Gamescom, the major industry event next month. It is unlikely that the announcement refers to a new console: the Xbox One X was only released in November, and the next full new version of the Xbox is not expected until 2020. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.


Houthis Attack ARAMCO Refinery in Riyadh Using Drone: Houthi-Run TV Station

U.S. News

DUBAI (Reuters) - The Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen said on Wednesday that one of its drones had attacked the Saudi state oil company ARAMCO's refinery in Riyadh, according to Houthi-run al-Masira TV, based in Yemen.


Google launches game on Tencent's Wechat as it eyes China market

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said on Wednesday it has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) game on Tencent Holdings Ltd social media app WeChat, as the company continues to show tentative signs of re-entering China's consumer market. The U.S. technology firm has been experimenting with new inroads to the China, where the majority of it products including its internet search engine, email and app store are blocked by Chinese authorities over censorship concerns. Last year, Google launched its'Google Translate' app in China, and in May it added a file management app to several app stores run by local Chinese firms, a first for the company. The latest product, Caihua Xiaoge, is a drawing game based on Google's AI image recognition technology, and is a WeChat'mini app', which works only within Tencent's WeChat. Several foreign firms, including Starbucks Corp, have also launched mini apps.


Grab to set up artificial intelligence lab with Singapore university

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asia's Grab is jointly investing S$6 million ($4.4 million) with the National University of Singapore to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory to help improve the efficiency and utilization of vehicles on its platform. The lab's efforts will expand to research on challenges such as congestion in Southeast Asian cities, Grab and NUS said in a statement on Wednesday. The AI lab is the latest move by Grab to leverage its vast trove of data and growing user base to improve its services. Last month, it received a $1 billion investment from Toyota Motor Corp in a partnership that includes data sharing. The lab's research could provide more personalized services to passengers, improve driving safety through better understanding of driver behavior as well as improve precision in mapping pick-up points, Grab and NUS said.


The Age of Artificial Intelligence - EPSC - European Commission

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Deployed wisely, AI holds the promise of addressing some of the world's most intractable challenges. But the significance of its positive impact is mirrored by its likely destabilising effects on some aspects of economic and social life. Our paper explores the opportunities and ethical challenges that come with AI and focuses on how Europe can sharpen its competitive edge vis-à-vis other leading economies, such as the United States and China.


Autonomous taxi tests to start in Tokyo with view to launch service in 2020

The Japan Times

Tests on public roads of an autonomous taxi carrying passengers will be held in central Tokyo for nearly two weeks from late August with the aim of launching the service in 2020, a tech firm and a major taxi company said Wednesday. ZMP Inc., a Tokyo-based developer of autonomous driving technology, and Hinomaru Kotsu Co. will conduct the tests from Aug. 27 to Sept. 8 over a route of some 5.3 km between commercial facilities in Tokyo's Otemachi and Roppongi districts, they said. The initiative comes as competition intensifies in the development of autonomous vehicles. General Motors Co. and Waymo, a spinoff of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc., have started tests on public roads, while Nissan Motor Co. and DeNA Co. conducted tests on a ride-hailing service in Yokohama in March. The Japanese government has allowed the testing of automated driving systems on public roads since 2017 in the hope of accelerating commercialization of the technology ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and also to address the shortage of drivers in a society with an aging demographic profile.


Madden 19: NFL star Antonio Brown will be on cover of new American football game, EA announces before release date

The Independent - Tech

Antonio Brown will be on the front of Madden 19. The American football game, one of the biggest titles of the year, will feature the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver on its cover. Brown will also appear on the mobile version of the game, Madden NFL Overdrive. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.


UK Investigators Probe Russian Access to Facebook Data

U.S. News

British authorities looking into inappropriate use of data gathered by political consultant Cambridge Analytica from millions of Facebook users say some of the systems that accessed the material appear to be in Russia or a group of former Soviet states.