On December 15, 2019, the United States intended to implement a phase of tariffs against $160 billion worth of Chinese imports. The implementation has now been averted after U.S. President Donald Trump approved the terms of a...
Earlier this month, on February 11, 2019, President Donald Trump issued an executive order called the American AI Initiative mandating federal agencies to leverage artificial intelligence, or AI, in their operations. While the order does mention that...
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio is considered by many to be one of the three Godfathers of Deep Learning, along with Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun, Facebook's VP & Chief AI Scientist. So the world sits up...
One of the biggest polarizing effects of practical artificial intelligence applications is that half the world seems to think it will take all our jobs, while the other half says it will create even more jobs. What's...
Google is one of the biggest names in the industry. The Menlo Park-based firm has been expanding its business in recent years, showing the world that it’s more than just about the search engine. In 2016, Google debuted the...
Tesla is well on its way to sourcing the initial $2 billion in funding for the Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, China. According to people close to the matter, the local Shanghai government is the middle-man in negotiations with at...
The FIFA World Cup 2018 is just around the corner. The world’s biggest football event will take place on June 14 and will run through 15 July in Russia. It’s a gathering place where big national teams challenge for...
Two great forces came to a head today as U.S. Supreme Court justices grilled Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco about Trump's authority to effect a travel ban, formerly promised as a "Muslim ban."The ban itself has had to jump through...
https://youtu.be/k6QLoFJ6RdoCannabis, also known as marijuana is the oldest psychoactive drug, used by humans for many centuries. The earliest recorded usage dates way back to 3rd Millennium BC, either during or before the bronze age (Bronze age - 3000 to...
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Speaking at a Brussels meeting with EU foreign ministers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Trump's declaration on Jerusalem, saying that he believes EU countries will follow suit.The move to shift the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem...
The ongoing Myanmar issue has given rise to “one of the fastest refugee exoduses in modern times and has created the largest refugee camp in the world,” according to the International Crisis Group.The mass exit of Rohingya Muslim refugees...
The Palestinian Authority and the Arab League may approach the United Nations General Assembly with a request for a resolution against President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as the US-recognized capital of Israel.The Arab League issued a statement in...
A day after President Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel despite multiple warnings by state leaders and global organizations, Gaza City-based terrorist group Hamas has called for a Palestinian intifada or uprising against Israel.The head of...
According to a Channel NewsAsia report, Singapore Airlines has rerouted some of its flights in response to missile tests conducted by North Korea.The airline said that, following the July 27 missile launch into the Sea of Japan by Pyongyang,...