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AI Robot Sophia Wows at Ethiopia ICT Expo

AI Robot Sophia Wows at Ethiopia ICT Expo

Sophia, one of the world’s most advanced and perhaps most famous artificial intelligence (AI) humanoid robot, was a big hit...

Fears Mounting Over Possible Trade War

Fears Mounting Over Possible Trade War

President Donald Trump continues to turn up the heat on trade, a tactic that he insists will result in better...

Ex-Brazil Tycoon Batista Handed 30-Year Sentence for Corruption

Ex-Brazil Tycoon Batista Handed 30-Year Sentence for Corruption

Eike Batista, the former mining and oil magnate who was once Brazil’s richest man, was convicted and sentenced to 30...

How Much Artificial Intelligence Surveillance Is Too Much?

How Much Artificial Intelligence Surveillance Is Too Much?

When a CIA-backed venture capital fund took an interest in Rana el Kaliouby’s face-scanning technology for detecting emotions, the computer...

India Demands Facebook Curb Spread of False Information on WhatsApp

India Demands Facebook Curb Spread of False Information on WhatsApp

India has asked Facebook to prevent the spread of false texts on its WhatsApp messaging application, saying the content has...

Over 40 Countries Object at WTO to US Car Tariff Plan

Over 40 Countries Object at WTO to US Car Tariff Plan

Major U.S. trading partners including the European Union, China and Japan voiced deep concern at the World Trade Organization (WTO)...

Small Shop Owners Protest Walmart Entry to India’s Online Market

Small Shop Owners Protest Walmart Entry to India’s Online Market

Worried that Walmart’s $16 billion deal to takeover India’s biggest e-commerce company will force millions of mom and pop stores...

With Refrigerated ATMs, Camel Milk Business Thrives in Kenya

With Refrigerated ATMs, Camel Milk Business Thrives in Kenya

Halima Sheikh Ali is the proud owner of one of the few ATMs in Wajir town in northeast Kenya. But...

Portuguese Tech Firm Uncorks a Smartphone Made Using Cork

Portuguese Tech Firm Uncorks a Smartphone Made Using Cork

A Portuguese tech firm is uncorking an Android smartphone whose case is made from cork, a natural and renewable material...

I Never Said That! High-tech Deception of ‘Deepfake’ Videos

I Never Said That! High-tech Deception of ‘Deepfake’ Videos

Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being...

New Financial Apps Demystify Stocks and Bonds for Latinos

New Financial Apps Demystify Stocks and Bonds for Latinos

Carlos Garcia was three years into his first job in technology at Merrill Lynch when he first learned what a...

EU Warns US Against Car Tariffs

EU Warns US Against Car Tariffs

The European Union has warned the United States that placing tariffs on automobiles would end up hurting the U.S. economy...

Tesla Hits Model 3 Manufacturing Milestone, Sources Say

Tesla Hits Model 3 Manufacturing Milestone, Sources Say

Tesla Inc nearly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in the last week of its second quarter, with the final...

Swedish Researches Developing 3-D VR Model of Milky Way

Swedish Researches Developing 3-D VR Model of Milky Way

Researchers at a public university in Sweden are creating a 3-D, virtual reality model of the Milky Way. They say...

Canada Imposes Retaliatory Tariffs on US Goods

Canada Imposes Retaliatory Tariffs on US Goods

Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods take effect Sunday following the Trump administration’s new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum....

Iran Seeks Ways to Defend Against US Sanctions

Iran Seeks Ways to Defend Against US Sanctions

Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter U.S. economic sanctions, state news agency IRNA reported Saturday....

Trump Claims Saudi Arabia Will Boost Oil Production

Trump Claims Saudi Arabia Will Boost Oil Production

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had received assurances from King Salman of Saudi Arabia that the kingdom will...

AP Fact Check: Were Tax Cuts an ‘Economic Miracle?’

AP Fact Check: Were Tax Cuts an ‘Economic Miracle?’

Editor’s note: A look at the veracity of claims by political figures President Donald Trump has elevated his tax cuts...

‘Insect Vision’ Hunts Down Asteroids

‘Insect Vision’ Hunts Down Asteroids

June 30 marks Asteroid Day, a U.N.-sanctioned campaign to promote awareness around the world of what’s up in the sky....

US Manufacturers Brace for Impact of Escalating US-China Trade Battles

US Manufacturers Brace for Impact of Escalating US-China Trade Battles

Just days before the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports are set to go into effect, trade...

Trump: Expect Another Tax Cut, ‘Probably in October’

Trump: Expect Another Tax Cut, ‘Probably in October’

U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects a second tax overhaul to be unveiled in October or a bit earlier,...

Trump Celebrates Tax Cut Law at 6-Month Mark

Trump Celebrates Tax Cut Law at 6-Month Mark

U.S. President Donald Trump touted the Republican tax cut plan Friday, six months after he signed it into law, saying...