Amazon is trialling humanoid robots in its US warehouses, in the latest sign of the tech giant automating more of its operations. Amazon said the move was about “freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers”. It said it was testing a new robot called Digit, which has arms and legs and can move, …
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Nokia will cut up to 14,000 jobs to reduce costs, it said on Thursday, warning it did not expect a market recovery soon after posting a 20% drop in third-quarter sales on weaker demand for 5G equipment. Shares in the Finnish company, which produces equipment for telecom networks, were down 2% at 0900 GMT. A …
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The world’s most valuable chip company Nvidia and iPhone maker Foxconn are joining forces to build so-called “AI factories”. The firms say it is a new kind of data centre that uses Nvidia chips to power a “wide range” of applications. They include training autonomous vehicles, robotics platforms and large language models. It comes as …
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A total of 57 Ghana women and girls have been admitted into the Class of 2024 of the Women Techsters Fellowship. The program, an initiative of the Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative (Tech4Dev), aims to narrow the digital and technology divide between men and women within the tech ecosystem. The Women Techsters Fellowship …
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AI is unquestionably integral to the future of astronomy due to the vast volume of data generated during the study of the universe. It will be a cornerstone in deepening our understanding of the cosmos. The Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile is a big stride forward in this mission, and over the next ten years …
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Those of us who have ever used a magnifying glass to start stuff on fire, rejoice — it ends up we were doing the same kind of science that could build roads, launch pads, and more on the Moon. A paper published in Scientific Reports outlines an audacious way to melt the lunar surface into …
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A company which enables its clients to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular face has won an appeal against the UK’s privacy watchdog. Last year, Clearview AI was fined more than £7.5m by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for unlawfully storing facial images. Jack Mulcaire, …
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Space agencies have performed a dazzling aerial feat at both Venus and Mars: they’ve dipped an incoming spacecraft into the planets’ atmospheres to slow it down without wasting precious rocket fuel. But will this audacious aerocapture technique also work in the outer solar system? Athul Pradeepkumar Girija, who recently earned a PhD from Purdue University …
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About 600 self-driving cars made by a unit of General Motors are being investigated by regulators after reports of injuries to pedestrians. Self-driving cars made by Cruise may have been “encroaching on pedestrians”, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA said it had received two reports involving pedestrian injuries. Cruise says …
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is “too important not to get right”, a top Google executive has told the BBC. It has the potential for “huge breakthroughs” across industries, said Matt Brittin, president of Google for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. There has been a long-running global debate about the risks and rewards of AI. …
