Women may be better at multi-tasking than men – but that attribute could be putting them at more risk of falling down the stairs. Young women are around 80 per cent more likely to be injured after falling down stairs than young men, research suggests. Now a study could explain why this is the case. Researchers who filmed 2,400 adults under the age of 40 descending two staircases, found women were more likely to be in a conversation with someone, which could distract them from watching their step. They were also more likely to be multi-tasking by holding something, such as a coffee, a bag or item of clothing, which would make it harder to grab the handrail if they stumbled.

Billionaire Robin Li launches on March 16 Baidu's conversational chatbot, Ernie Bot, at the company's headquarters in Beijing. Billionaire and Baidu CEO Robin Li on Thursday officially unveiled the Chinese search giant's answer to ChatGPT, as his company seeks to outdo domestic competitors in developing conversational artificial intelligence technologies, which have recently taken the world's second largest economy by storm. At a highly anticipated event at Baidu's Beijing headquarters, the 54-year-old Li walked onto the stage and displayed the company's chatbot service, Ernie Bot. But instead of a live demo, the audience was only shown videos of Ernie Bot performing a range of prepared and pre-recorded tasks, including answering questions about a popular novelist, composing press releases as well as working on mathematics problems. So attendees weren't given a chance to interact with Ernie Bot in real-time, though the company said the service will be available to a selected group of users starting on Thursday.

The artificial intelligence incursion has made its way to the App Store. BlueMail, an app that uses AI to write emails and manage people's calendars, was set to release an update to its service that would utilize OpenAI's popular ChatGPT engine. Apple, citing ChatGPT's ability to spew out nearly any kind of text imaginable, blocked BlueMail's updates out of concern that it could generate text that would be offensive or unfit for minors. It just stopped the app maker from publishing the update without content restriction filters. Still, BlueMail's developer has protested the move, saying Apple was stifling its innovation efforts.

LONDON – Guinness World Records celebrates its annual records day on Thursday, honoring a long list of people who have done highly improbable things better than anyone else. The World Records Day often includes a Rubik's cube solved in unlikely circumstances against the clock, and this year was no exception. China's Que Jianyu recorded the fastest time to crack the puzzle upside down: 15.84 seconds. The Harlem Globetrotters, the U.S. stunt basketball team, generally fields a number of record-setters, or at least attempts. This year, one of them was Torch George, who managed the most under-the-leg tumbles -- 32 -- and at 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm) may also set a record as the most diminutive Globetrotter.

I recently returned from a vacation to find that Google's algorithms had created a customized slide show of my trip. I hadn't asked for one. But the company's software robots apparently noticed I'd traveled somewhere and taken a flurry of photos, which likely indicated I'd been vacationing. Now, I actually enjoy some of Google's simpler customization tools, like autocomplete. But this unbidden slide-show curation seemed too humanlike.

"Minecraft" for console has just been given three new maps for its Battle mode. In addition, Mojang's sandbox video game has just received its first mini game for the console version, titled "Tumble." On Tuesday, "Minecraft" senior marketing manager Jaime Limon took to the official Xbox blog and PlayStation blog to announce the new additions to the popular dig-and-build game. Limon stated in his posts that for the console version of the game, players will now have the chance to enjoy three new levels by purchasing the Battle Map Pack #3, which costs 2.99 in the Xbox store. He then wrote that the new maps are called the terrifying Invasion, the colossal Castle and the incredible Shipyard.