Elham Mansoori, member of Afghan Dreamers, an all-girls robotics team in Afghanistan, works on their prototype of a ventilator. In Afghanistan, a group of teenage girls are trying to build a mechanized, hand-operated ventilator for coronavirus patients, using a design from M.I.T. and parts from old Toyota Corollas. It sounds like an impossible dream, but then again, the all-girls robotics team in question is called the "Afghan Dreamers." Living a country where two-thirds of adolescent girls cannot read or write, they're used to overcoming challenges. The team of some dozen girls aged 15 to 17 was formed three years ago by Roya Mahboob, an Afghan tech entrepreneur who heads the Digital Citizen Fund, a group that runs classes for girls in STEM and robotics and oversees and funds the Afghan Dreamers.

When the real world seems too constrained, the endless horizons of Minecraft can be soothing. When the real world seems too constrained, the endless horizons of Minecraft can be soothing. E. closes the door behind him and steps out into the world. I stay put, cooking up ideas for home improvement. We've only known each other for a few months, but once the pandemic threw our lives off balance, we decided to move in together. In a house we built.

Beijing is accelerating its bid for global leadership in key technologies, planning to pump more than a trillion dollars into the economy through the rollout of everything from wireless networks to artificial intelligence (AI). In the master plan backed by President Xi Jinping himself, China will invest an estimated $1.4 trillion over six years to 2025, calling on urban governments and private tech giants like Huawei Technologies Co. to deploy fifth generation wireless networks, install cameras and sensors and develop AI software that will underpin technologies from autonomous driving to automated factories and mass surveillance. The new infrastructure initiative is expected to drive mainly local giants, from Alibaba and Huawei to SenseTime Group Ltd., at the expense of U.S. companies. As tech-nationalism mounts, the investment drive will reduce China's dependence on foreign technology -- echoing objectives set forth previously in the Made in China 2025 program. Such initiatives have already drawn fierce criticism from the Trump administration, resulting in moves to block the rise of Chinese technology companies such as Huawei. "Nothing like this has happened before; this is China's gambit to win the global tech race," said Digital China Holdings Chief Operating Officer Maria Kwok, as she sat in a Hong Kong office surrounded by facial recognition cameras and sensors.

Before committing to a company, investors want to know if there are any potential controversies brewing, or if the company shows particular leadership in an area of ESG, such as diversity in the workforce. Refinitiv is a global provider of financial market data and infrastructure, and this article describes how their Labs team is exploring the use of NLP to give their clients a competitive edge in global financial markets. Currently, Refinitiv analysts search for news stories about a specific company using a set of ESG-related keywords, and if there's a positive match, the story is subject to further scrutiny. CHICAGO (Reuters) -- The agricultural unit of German chemicals company Bayer AG will halt future U.S. sales of an insecticide that can be used on more than 200 crops after losing a fight with the U.S. Environment Protection Agency, the company said on Friday. This can take the analyst some considerable time.

A special, peer-reviewed edition of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, has highlighted the importance of key digital technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and blockchain for innovation in healthcare in response to the challenges posed by COVID-19. Vural Özdemir, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of OMICS, said: "COVID-19 is undoubtedly among the ecological determinants of planetary health. Digital health is a veritable opportunity for integrative biology and systems medicine to broaden its scope from human biology to ecological determinants of health. Articles in the special issue include an interview on'Responsible Innovation and Future Science in Australia' by Justine Lacey, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and Erik Fisher, Arizona State University, Tempe, 'Blockchain for Digital Health: Prospects and Challenges' and'Integrating Artificial and Human Intelligence: A Partnership for Responsible Innovation in Biomedical Engineering and Medicine.' In'Blockchain for Digital Health: Prospects and Challenges' the article explores the challenges that can be faced with the use of blockchain technology.

The concept of a COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium emerged from a roundtable discussion at the White House in March and included input from industry, government, and academic leaders. Following the announcement of the consortium, AWS has been collaborating with teams on a growing number of projects to provide cloud computing resources from AWS. I want to share three early learnings from this work. Today I would like to provide some insight into some of the innovative projects on which we are collaborating with the world's leading researchers. PostEra is helping to lead Project Moonshot, an open science initiative to find a novel antiviral cure for COVID-19, tested in animals within four months.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an essential role in driving digital transformation, bringing changes across various industry. Given its rapid development, along with the unbelievable explosion of data, AI is expected to join the rank of the steam engine, the electricity generator, and the printing press to become another general-purpose technology to significantly impact human life. As Huawei believes, AI is one of the core technologies in the 21st century and will have a profound impact on the future of mankind. The set-up has long been ready for AI to take a giant leap, where AI computing will take up 80% of total workload in computing centres by 2025, compared to the current level of less than 10%. Thanks to tremendous advancement of connectivity, particularly with the arrival of 5G, AI can operate in scenarios requiring high bandwidth and low latency.

A robot dog designed for search and rescue missions has had a go at herding sheep in New Zealand.

When British technologist Kevin Ashton coined the phrase "internet of things" (IoT) in 1999, the world was only just getting acquainted with the nascent network of networks and how to access and use its many applications. In the more than two decades since, it has grown increasingly difficult to imagine a world in which our economies and communities were not supported and connected via the World Wide Web and the devices we use to access it. The number of firms that have incorporated IoT technologies into their businesses grew from 13% in 2014 to about 25% globally in 2019. In countries such as the United States, Germany, France and China, the rate of IoT adoption among enterprise-size commercial organizations exceeded 85%, according to a 2019 survey by Microsoft. And recent analyses from IDC predicted there will be 41.6 billion internet-connected devices by 2025, as worldwide commercial and consumer spending on IoT will exceed $1 trillion within the next three years.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ready, set, INNOVATE! T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) today unveiled six exciting companies handpicked to participate in this year's T-Mobile Accelerator. These companies will work directly with T-Mobile leaders and other industry experts and mentors to develop and commercialize the next disruptive emerging products, applications and solutions made possible by T-Mobile's nationwide 5G network today and in the future. Formerly the Sprint Accelerator, the immersive program runs through July 30 and will culminate in Demo Day where participants showcase their accomplishments. "We are committed to using our broad and deep nationwide 5G network to accelerate innovation and spur the development of new, transformative applications. Mentoring, collaborating with, and providing resources to these six promising companies is an important part of that mission," said Neville Ray, President of Technology at T-Mobile.